UJET

DECEMBER 10, 2020

Don’t worry, we’re not suggesting you double your workforce; we’re suggesting you give your agents a virtual sidekick. Virtual Agents are designed to be your human agents’ Pippen or Harrison or Gehrig (pick your sport). What, Exactly, Are Virtual Agents? Intelligence Is a Matter of Features.

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Virtual Agent Customer Service Interactive Voice Response Average Handle Time 72

Creative Virtual

MARCH 14, 2022

If you give visitors to your website the option to self-serve with a chatbot or virtual agent, kudos to you for recognising the importance of easily accessible digital support! Both current and potential customers appreciate being able to engage with automated self-service anytime, anywhere.

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Self service Virtual Agent Chatbots Technology 59

Interactions

JUNE 10, 2022

Customers are busy and self-service provides a fast and efficient way for them to get things done. In our recent survey, customers noted that when using an automated system, they see benefits such as: The convenience to get tasks done when they want to take care of them. Today, automation in the contact center is a necessity.

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TechSee

OCTOBER 9, 2018

They demand highly convenient and fast service. According to a survey by Desk.com , 25% of millennials expect to get a response within 10 minutes after reaching out for customer service via social media. I’ll help myself, thanks: Called the Do-It-Yourself Generation, Millennials love self-service.

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Customer Service Self service Virtual Agent Chatbots 359

Creative Virtual

APRIL 22, 2020

In the recently published report The Inner Circle Guide to AI-Enabled Self-Service (available for download in a UK version and in a US version ), ContactBabel takes a deep dive into the current status of CX self-service technologies, use cases and customer preferences.

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Self service Customer Experience Virtual Agent Chatbots 52

Creative Virtual

MARCH 27, 2020

With physical offices and locations closed, many are struggling with the influx of customer questions to their contact centres – an issue that may be compounded by the sudden need to support agents working from home. Organisations with an existing self-service solution have a definite advantage.

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SmartAction

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Businesses who thrive at building robust, complete customer journeys harness the power of automation to build self-service solutions in their order management strategy. This involves: Gathering Data : Utilize customer service logs, feedback surveys, and website analytics to understand your most frequent inquiries.

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DMG Consulting

AUGUST 9, 2018

DMG Consulting Releases 2018 Intelligent Virtual Agent Product and Market Report. State of the art self-service and compelling benefits that transcend verticals. Who: DMG Consulting LLC, a leading provider of contact center, back-office and real-time analytics market research and consulting services.

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DMG Consulting

FEBRUARY 15, 2018

IVAs Can Remake the Self-Service Landscape. A remarkable thing is happening in the realm of customer service: After years of rejecting self-service, customers are changing their tune. The Latest (and Greatest) in Self-Service: IVAs. By Donna Fluss. View this document on the publisher’s website.

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Self service Interactive Voice Response Virtual Agent Analytics 54

SmartAction

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

Conversational AI helps them out of what seems to be an endless cycle of button pressing and voice prompts to connect them immediately with a virtual agent. This means a lighter load and less stress for your agents, resulting in less worker attrition, as well as requiring fewer workers in your call center. Collaborate.

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Contact Center Interactive Voice Response Virtual Agent Management 88

Creative Virtual

JANUARY 28, 2020

A Gartner survey found that of highly engaged employees, only 21% report having a high-quality experience. One way companies can easily improve the experience of employees is by offering personalised self-service options for routine support. It also highlights the need to make strategic investments in experience improvements.

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Employee engagement Self service Virtual Agent Chatbots 40

Interactions

MAY 26, 2022

Brands who implement Conversational AI applications like virtual agents can deliver exceptional customer experience with added benefits like decreased operational costs, improved CSAT, and increased agent productivity. Even if live agents are unavailable, virtual agents can handle unlimited conversations.

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Virtual Agent Contact Center Wait times Self service 110

SmartAction

JANUARY 11, 2019

AI-powered virtual agents present significant potential to improve the customer experience (CX) via call center automation. According to recent surveys by Frost & Sullivan’s Stratecast team, 20% of all companies have plans to adopt some type of AI-powered solution in the near future. Limited voice automation choices.

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DMG Consulting

JULY 19, 2017

DMG Consulting Releases 2017 Intelligent Virtual Agent Product and Market Report. Who: DMG Consulting LLC, a leading provider of contact center, back-office and real-time analytics market research and consulting services. What: Releases 2017 Intelligent Virtual Agent Product and Market Report.

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Virtual Agent Consulting Consulting Marketing 48

TechSee

JANUARY 14, 2020

Automated agent assistance gives agents real-time guidance during customer interactions, freeing them from the burden of remembering workflows, troubleshooting processes and rules – the system does that – and enabling them to focus on pleasing their customers or dealing with more complex issues. Smarter Agents. Specialization.

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Virtual Agent Self service Contact Center Call Center 109

Upstream Works

DECEMBER 20, 2022

This improves the agent experience, especially for those working from home and might not have access to a quiet environment. McKinsey’s American Opportunity Survey found that 58% of American workers can work from home at least once a week; 87% said they take the opportunity to work flexibly when they have the chance.

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Customer Experience Virtual Agent Contact Center Scripts 78

TechSee

JANUARY 14, 2020

Automated agent assistance gives agents real-time guidance during customer interactions, freeing them from the burden of remembering workflows, troubleshooting processes and rules – the system does that – and enabling them to focus on pleasing their customers or dealing with more complex issues. Why agents are embracing the change.

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Call Center Virtual Agent Self service Contact Center 124

Creative Virtual

OCTOBER 6, 2022

Their survey of customer service leaders found that 72% said support in a customer’s native language increased their satisfaction with customer support and 58% said it increased loyalty to the brand. This has opened up new possibilities for delivering multilingual customer self-service.

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Virtual Agent Customer Service Engineering Self service 64

Interactions

MAY 6, 2022

In a recent survey, we found the top obstacles people experience when contacting customer service have to do with time, such as long wait times or wasted time due to inefficient processes. . 59% interacted with an agent who was not knowledgeable. 63% were transferred multiple times. 62% had to repeat or re-enter information.

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Virtual Agent Customer Experience Wait times Scripts 71

3CLogic

JANUARY 24, 2024

Bern Elliot, Vice President Analyst at Gartner explains : “Customer service and support leaders seeking to use AI to improve digital and self-service customer service should ensure they have sufficient, accurate and relevant data to support customer service insights and predictions use cases”.

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Contact Center Virtual Agent Self service CRM 64

Noble Systems

JUNE 26, 2020

The IVR system then uses routing rules to send the call to either an agent or a self-service application. In addition to outbound “virtual agent” collections calls, IVR allows customers to obtain their account information and make payments through self-service features.

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Interactive Voice Response Contact Center Technology Real estate 98

DMG Consulting

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

What goals can AI help them achieve: Enhancing self-service? Boosting agent engagement? Increasing agent productivity? DMG is benchmarking the adoption of AI-based/enabled solutions in our annual contact center survey of goals and technology. Reducing operating expenses? Improving the overall CX?

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Contact Center Virtual Agent Self service Analytics 48

DMG Consulting

MARCH 11, 2022

On an annual basis, in the November/December time frame, DMG Consulting (DMG) conducts a worldwide survey of contact center and enterprise executives and managers to identify their top operational and technology investment priorities for the coming year. of survey participants. 2022 Top Contact Center Priorities/Goals. See Figure 1.

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Customer Experience Interactive Voice Response Contact Center Self service 71

TechSee

APRIL 21, 2021

According to a 2021 survey, 65% of U.S. Computer Vision AI-Based Self-Service. AI is reshaping the enterprise approach to self-service. AI enhances existing self-service capabilities, such as smart FAQ and IVR, with the new cognitive capabilities in chatbots or virtual agents.

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Call Center Contact Center Self service call center solutions 136

Creative Virtual

AUGUST 5, 2020

A new survey conducted by Econsultancy and Marketing Week with marketers around the world found that, among customer-facing organisations with £50 million or more in annual revenue, 63% of respondents said they observed a “strong trend” of consumers adopting digital features more quickly as a result of COVID-19.

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Virtual Agent Customer Experience Chatbots Self service 52

Nicereply

JANUARY 4, 2023

That said, over 60% of customers claim they now have higher customer service standards, but 54% report that customer service feels like an afterthought for most of the businesses they buy from. 5 Ways to maintain great customer service at lower costs at 2023. Get the most out of self-service and AI solutions.

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Customer Service Chatbots Self service Surveys 59

Creative Virtual

OCTOBER 5, 2020

This three-part blog series explores the business value of using a chatbot or virtual agent to provide easy-to-use self-service, starting with supporting customers. They used their existing virtual agent implementations both to analyse customer needs and deliver 24/7 support for better customer service.

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Virtual Agent Customer Service Chatbots Self service 52

Cisco - Contact Center

AUGUST 3, 2020

This open platform architecture enables our customers to easily add and integrate with advanced cloud applications such as AI-based virtual agents, advanced data analytics, workforce optimization, and other Webex applications, including Webex Experience Management, Webex Calling, and Webex Control Hub.

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Contact Center Technology contact center solutions Virtual Agent 124

Creative Virtual

JULY 22, 2020

Survey respondents’ observations about customer behaviour present a very telling story about the challenges of CX today: 68% strongly believe that expectations from customers are rising. Check out this three-part blog series for more insights and tips: Delivering Self-Service During the COVID-19 Uncertainty, Part 1: Supporting Customers.

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Virtual Agent Self service Surveys Customer centricity 52

Creative Virtual

JULY 27, 2022

Contact centres and contact centre agents are under immense pressure, dealing with increased contact volumes, rising customer frustration, and agent attrition. A recent survey of 1000 contact centre leaders in the UK, US, and Australia has revealed a very telling and consistent view that contact centres are hanging on by a thread.

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Self service Chatbots Virtual Agent Surveys 52

SmartAction

MARCH 18, 2021

When they do, chances are more likely than not they’ll be speaking to an AI-powered virtual agent. Your AI-powered virtual agent has the potential to be more. Feedback surveys to capture customer satisfaction. It’s a seamless process yet there’s something left there to be desired.

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Virtual Agent Customer Service Interactive Voice Response Contact Center 63

Creative Virtual

JUNE 2, 2020

Newer channels, such as messaging apps, have entered the mix and preferences are shifting more and more towards digital self-service as a first choice. Yet even with these changes, customers still sometimes want or need to reach out to a human agent in the contact centre.

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Virtual Agent Self service Surveys Chatbots 52

Interactions

MAY 28, 2020

A recent survey by Deloitte asked people whether they agree with the statement: “I feel safe going to the store right now.” ” In the US, only 34% of those surveyed responded with “agree” or “strongly agree.” And, they are more willing to use self-service technologies to communicate with brands.

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Journey mapping Virtual Agent Self service Government 83

DMG Consulting

JUNE 9, 2023

An influential driver of this sector’s growth is the expanding footprint of these platforms, which increasingly include many workforce engagement management (WEM) applications and intelligent virtual agent (IVA) self-service capabilities.

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Marketing Contact Center Virtual Agent Enterprise 48

VirtualPBX

JULY 9, 2020

“ 33 percent of buyers surveyed rated the option of live chat during the research stage of their buying journey as one of the top three requirements for a best-in-class supplier.” This event was free, and needless to say, it was a virtual hit! Invest Efforts in Self-Service. ” – McKinsey Report.

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UJET

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

AI solves this problem by routing customers to the ideal customer service solutions quickly. A customer calling to ask about store hours, for instance, may be routed to a self-service option or Virtual Agent , while more complex queries will be routed to a human agent. Agent Assist Minimizes AHT.

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Customer Service Virtual Agent Interactive Voice Response Gamification 82

DMG Consulting

JANUARY 29, 2021

This is exactly what DMG asked enterprise, IT and contact centers leaders from around the world in our annual contact center goals and priority survey, conducted in November and December 2020. After the pandemic is over, are you going to have some/all contact center/customer service employees work from home? of respondents.

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