Interactions

AUGUST 29, 2022

Virtual agents have come a long way. And while some companies are certainly still using automated systems from the dark ages, forward-thinking brands have taken advantage of advancements in technology for big steps forward in customer experience self-service. . But what’s next? Use cases will become more sophisticated.

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Virtual Agent Self Service eBook Report 62

Calabrio

MARCH 11, 2025

It’s about ensuring that every interaction not only meets but exceeds customer expectations, fostering loyalty and driving positive brand perception. It delves into sentiment, analyzes conversational flow, and pinpoints areas where agents can improve.

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Contact Center Call Center Effort Score Chatbots 130

BlueOcean

OCTOBER 4, 2023

Without it, you risk taking a hit to your CSat scores, your brand loyalty, and your bottom line. But what mix of live agents versus AI is best for your business? Data from ICMI also reveals that 76% of call center professionals believe bilingual support improves the customer experience, brand loyalty, and customer satisfaction.

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Contact Center Customer Care Average Handle Time Consumers 310

InMoment XI

JANUARY 16, 2024

Specifically, the world’s leading brands have begun using contact center AI to create a more efficient and effective customer service experience. Virtual Agents and Chatbots: Virtual agents or chatbots, powered by AI, interact with customers in real-time.

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Contact Center Virtual Agent e-support Telecommunications 195

DCX

JANUARY 12, 2025

And the future of virtual agents? Why This Is a Game-Changer: Customers don’t want to explain themselves—they want brands to “just get it.” Plus, customers can feel it too, and they stick around for brands that stand for something real. What if your chatbots could feel human? Let’s dive in!

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Virtual Agent Chatbots Retail Leadership 52

Interactions

MAY 26, 2022

Brands shouldn’t gamble when it comes to customer experience. In fact, 1 in 3 customers will leave a brand they love after just one bad experience, while 92% would completely abandon a company after two or three negative interactions. Even if live agents are unavailable, virtual agents can handle unlimited conversations.

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Virtual Agent Self Service Contact Center Wait Times 110

CSM Magazine

APRIL 26, 2022

Avaya has announced an enhancement to Avaya OneCloud to dramatically reduce the complexity associated with virtualizing customer interactions. Recent Avaya research with Ipsos indicates that based on their last interaction with a virtual agent, only 1 in 3 customers would recommend that business to others.

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Virtual Agent Self Service Wait Times NPS 52

NICE inContact

SEPTEMBER 11, 2018

Founded in 2010, as TechStyle Fashion Group expanded and added new brands to its portfolio, customer service infrastructures were siloed – no overarching system supported synergy between brands. Agents were empowered to provide more engaging personalized experiences with additional brand-relationship context.

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Contact Center Virtual Agent Net Promoter Score Self Service 120

TechSee

OCTOBER 9, 2018

This penchant for technology has shaped their consumer behavior and preferences, and brands must tailor their customer service strategies to suit Millennials’ attributes. They also value brand engagement over social networks as well. AI-powered virtual agents. The Millennial opportunity for businesses.

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Interactions

JANUARY 21, 2025

Heres how an Intelligent Virtual Agent (IVA) that blends technology with the human touch can deliver the personalized, caring support your customers crave when the next crisis hits. Everything from voice to phrasing should reflect your brand with warmth and humanity.

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Connections Self Service Poor Customer Service Virtual Agent 62

Comm100

AUGUST 17, 2022

They discussed why and how CX expectations have grown so high, what brands can do to meet these demands, and Shep’s opinion on the future of CX. Answer: “Well let me assure you that the agents’ job is still very secure, at least, for the near future, if not, even long term. This blog recaps the best bits from this conversation.

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Upstream Works

JUNE 9, 2022

They can simplify the agent’s life even more and allow them to provide real value add to the customer experience that only a human can provide. AI applications come in many flavors – conversational AI for chatbots, robotic process automation (RPA), intelligent virtual agent assistants, and email auto responders.

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Contact Center Call Center Virtual Agent Omni-Channel 157

Lumoa

JUNE 23, 2021

In fact, it’s such a huge deal for customers today that it has overtaken price and product as the key brand differentiator. These include customer service analytics, engagement hubs, the voice of the customer , virtual agents (live chat), and chatbots.

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Trends Self Service Contact Center Omni-Channel 195

TechSee

OCTOBER 23, 2018

consumers abandoned a brand due to lack of personalization and trust. According to Chatbots Magazine , businesses can reduce customer service costs by as much as 30% with virtual agents and chatbots. According to Accenture , 41% of U.S. Using AI to enhance interactions with customers is quickly gaining traction.

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Interactions

JUNE 25, 2020

Mind you, most of these brands have strived for this level of digital transformation for years. The pandemic revealed and tested ‘digital readiness’ of various brands. The brands who had the right online infrastructure to support this thrived, while others scrambled. . Virtual Agents can help.

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Self Service Virtual Agent Customer Journeys Contact Center 71

NICE inContact

MAY 21, 2019

According to research by Microsoft, 90% of consumers now expect a brand or organisation to offer a self-service portal for customer support. Self-service can be anything from a virtual agent that is capable of responding to a specific question to fully AI-enabled smart chatbots that can anticipate and automate work for the advisor.

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Self Service Strategy Virtual Agent Consumers 136

Interactions

MAY 6, 2022

Making customer service more efficient will make your brand stand out from competition and drive continued loyalty and increased revenue. . How can brands make interactions more efficient for their consumers? Many are turning to Conversational AI solutions like virtual agents to automate tasks. And time is money.

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Virtual Agent Self Service Customer Experience Wait Times 71

Interactions

AUGUST 12, 2022

Conversational AI applications are being used by many brands today to automate tasks via self-service and improve both customer and agent experience. One of the most popular types of Conversational AI in CX are virtual agents, which are advanced Conversational AI applications. The Main Character: Conversational AI.

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Virtual Agent Self Service Technology Interaction 71

Oracle

AUGUST 19, 2020

. “A great innovation is when AI-powered virtual agents take cues from a shopper’s behavior to anticipate when a person is not 100% sure of a decision. A virtual agent would preemptively reach out offering advice to help the shopper make the right decision. Retail Innovation #4: AI-powered chatbots.

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UJET

MARCH 22, 2021

Brand loyalty is changing. Conversational AI & Virtual Agents. For example,Virtual Agent- “How can I help you?” For example,Virtual Agent- “How can I help you?”Customer- The virtual agent can understand the language, the intent, and can route accordingly.

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Virtual Agent Self Service Contact Center Customer Journeys 82

Interactions

JULY 7, 2022

Without enough agents in a contact center, customers cannot get the help they need. Not to mention, revenue and brand loyalty drop fast. . So how can brands recover from the current and prepare for future labor shortages? Virtual agents also scale quickly to handle unpredicted or seasonal volume. Ensure Security.

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Virtual Agent Contact Center eBook Advertising 62

BlueOcean

FEBRUARY 24, 2016

In this day and age, like it or not, as consumers, we should all pretty much expect that any consumer activity, outside of buying a pack of gum at your corner store, will automatically result in personal data being collected and shared by the companies, brands and organizations we patronize.

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Customer Service Contact Center Call Center Self Service 136

Interactions

APRIL 14, 2021

The agent on the other side of the communication should understand that the debtor is going through a hard time and they want to figure out how to get out of the mess. Simplicity : Sometimes a virtual agent is the fastest and most accurate solution to resolve the customer’s problems.

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Virtual Agent Call Center Call Center Solutions Call Flow 90

UJET

DECEMBER 17, 2020

Instances like this are far too common among companies that don’t have advanced NLP, and they cause not only frustration and lost sales but also feelings of discrimination , which undermines trust in your brand. It can even help chatbots and virtual agents pick up where conversations last left off.

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UJET

DECEMBER 17, 2020

Instances like this are far too common among companies that don’t have advanced NLP, and they cause not only frustration and lost sales but also feelings of discrimination , which undermines trust in your brand. It can even help chatbots and virtual agents pick up where conversations last left off.

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Examples Virtual Agent Self Service Chatbots 72

Oracle

OCTOBER 1, 2019

That’s a particularly attractive solution when a chatbot — also called a “virtual agent” — is offered as the initial strategy, with a live agent available as needed. No longer can brands rely on a single channel for customer service; shoppers want to communicate whenever and however they choose.

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Chatbots Customer Service Virtual Agent Self Service 74

CSM Magazine

FEBRUARY 28, 2020

The integration of Spitch’s voice technologies and Creative Virtual’s V-Person natural language chatbots and virtual agents brings an industry-leading voicebot offering to the market. The partnership is already creating interest in the marketplace, with the companies currently collaborating on several projects. About Spitch.

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Self Service Virtual Agent Multi-Channel Banking 59

Kustomer

OCTOBER 6, 2021

The word chatbot can be a bit ambiguous, as it applies to many different applications… your Amazon Alexa could be thought of as a bot, or even SMS communication from your favorite retail brand. But one type of chatbot that has proven to help reduce costs and improve your CSAT scores are virtual agents.

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Chatbots Customer Service Virtual Agent Call Center 94

ShepHyken

DECEMBER 8, 2017

This shift will provide an opportunity to engage with the customer, gain useful insight and build brand loyalty. Chatbots which work like virtual agents can solve basic query and transfer a call to ‘live agents’ in case of escalation. But how do we make this transition? Contact Customers on their Preferred Channel.

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Contact Center Customer Engagement Engagement Customer Service 45

Kayako

SEPTEMBER 17, 2015

This scenario also affected virtual agents, devaluing their ROI). Your customers’ heads are popping with questions and looking to have their choice in you brand validated with great service. Where pages with both a search box and FAQs, we saw a significant drop in search box searches usage. FAQs will give you false positives.

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Self Service Virtual Agent ROI System 120

Calabrio

JANUARY 6, 2016

Prediction #1: Brands will be more “proactive.”. A virtual agent initiates a service call by accessing your Outlook or iCal calendar to set up an appointment. Remember that however service is delivered—by a human or by a machine—the customer is still interacting with your brand. Is that interaction positive or negative?

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Customer Engagement Omni-Channel Engagement Self Service 133

NobelBiz

APRIL 30, 2024

The customer service you provide will either make or break your brand. Virtual Agents and Chatbots Virtual agents and chatbots handle routine inquiries such as billing questions, account updates, and simple technical support, freeing up human agents to focus on more complex and sensitive issues.

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Call Center Contact Center Virtual Agent Chatbots 105

NobelBiz

APRIL 30, 2024

The customer service you provide will either make or break your brand. Virtual Agents and Chatbots Virtual agents and chatbots handle routine inquiries such as billing questions, account updates, and simple technical support, freeing up human agents to focus on more complex and sensitive issues.

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Call Center Contact Center Virtual Agent Chatbots 104

NobelBiz

JANUARY 10, 2021

It is an artificial intelligence tool that can be described as a virtual agent. By creating a climate of trust and a context of dialogue between your platform and a customer or potential client, chatbots are an advantageous replacement for agents’ tasks. For some time now, Chatbots have become famous in contact centers.

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Call Center Chatbots Virtual Agent Contact Center 52