NICE inContact

OCTOBER 12, 2018

With all of the new improvements and changes in modern day customer service technology, it’s no surprise that customer expectations have evolved to follow suit as well. This is the first of four ways that virtual agents are automating the contact center. fewer calls being transferred to live agents.

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Virtual Agent Contact Center Self Service Average Handle Time 120

Calabrio

MARCH 25, 2025

Customer Experience Why Chatbot QA Must Be a Top Priorityand How AI Can Help Share Customers know what they want and when they want itpreferably, now. Its no wonder, then, chatbots are becoming an increasingly popular feature of the customer service landscape.

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Chatbots Contact Center Self Service Virtual Agent 130

TechSee

FEBRUARY 20, 2018

Customer self-service refers to customer-initiated interaction technologies that enable customers to access information and perform routine tasks without requiring the assistance of a live customer service representative. Is it cost reduction?

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Self Service Virtual Agent Knowledge Base Contact Center 132

AWS Machine Learning

OCTOBER 16, 2024

With up to 20,000 calls per day, the manual auditing process was inefficient and struggled to keep up with increasing call traffic and rising customer service expectations. Quality control agents had to manually pick calls to audit, which was not a scalable solution.

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Customer Service Contact Center Insurance Financial 84

Upstream Works

JUNE 9, 2022

The contact center was even more complicated. There were too many different customer needs and too many inconsistencies. The contact center agent’s life was not easy, and we saw it just getting more and more complicated. Now, we are enabling AI applications to help agents, too.

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Contact Center Call Center Virtual Agent Omni-Channel 157

SaleMove

JANUARY 20, 2021

In our previous blog in The Times They Are a-Changing: Talent in the Contact Center Series , we discussed how virtual agents, or bots, are transforming the contact center workplace, pushing live human agents to become strategic troubleshooting experts and managers to become agent coaches.

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Virtual Agent Contact Center Management How To 98

NICE inContact

SEPTEMBER 11, 2018

Today, contact center leaders who embrace the cloud are quick to see its benefits – powering engaging customer experiences while positively impacting business outcomes. As contact centers continue to become drivers of business growth, there are significant quantitative and qualitative results to consider.

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Contact Center Virtual Agent Net Promoter Score Self Service 120

BlueOcean

JANUARY 9, 2018

IBM reports that by 2020 – that’s just two years away – 85% of all customer service interactions will occur without a human agent. Instead, in addition to self-serve customer service , the majority of interactions will be driven by AI technology. Forget AI being the future of the contact center.

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Omni-Channel Customer Care Contact Center Case Study 191

AWS Machine Learning

MARCH 31, 2023

Government departments and businesses operate contact centers to connect with their communities, enabling citizens and customers to call to make appointments, request services, and sometimes just ask a question. These options are unsatisfying to callers who just want to ask an agent a question to get an answer quickly.

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Self Service Virtual Agent Connections Transportation 96

UJET

DECEMBER 10, 2020

Contact centers have more in common with sports teams than you might think. And there’s a very simple way to unlock each of your customer service agent’s full potential—give them a rock-star number two player. Virtual Agents are designed to be your human agents’ Pippen or Harrison or Gehrig (pick your sport).

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Virtual Agent Customer Service Self Service Average Handle Time 72

UJET

DECEMBER 10, 2020

Contact centers have more in common with sports teams than you might think. And there’s a very simple way to unlock each of your customer service agent’s full potential—give them a rock-star number two player. Virtual Agents are designed to be your human agents’ Pippen or Harrison or Gehrig (pick your sport).

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Virtual Agent Customer Service Self Service Average Handle Time 72

BlueOcean

OCTOBER 22, 2020

By creating that feeling through mock calls, the trainee has the chance to work through their nerves without exposing a “real” customer to their first anxious efforts. Making Virtual Agent Training Work for You. The post The Pivot to 100% Remote Training in the Contact Center appeared first on Blue Ocean.

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Contact Center Training Effort Score Virtual Agent 156

BlueOcean

OCTOBER 4, 2023

But what mix of live agents versus AI is best for your business? We believe that your French-Canadian consumers deserve support from agents who understand not only your brand, but also understand the consumer landscape and consumer support expectations in Canada. And how do offshore solutions, interpreters, and texting play a role?

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Contact Center Customer Care Average Handle Time Consumers 310

Uniphore

JUNE 10, 2021

We also learned just how important contact centers are to our everyday lives. When the whole world went remote, people started calling in in record numbers, forcing businesses to reassess their customer service game. At Jacada, we recognized the challenges of overwhelmed—and often understaffed—contact centers early on.

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Call Center Self Service Contact Center eBook 246

ShepHyken

DECEMBER 8, 2017

This week we feature an article by Mansi Bhatia who looks at ways organizations can transform contact centers into a customer engagement center. I like the idea of a customer engagement center. – Shep Hyken. Customer service has the power to make or break a company.

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Contact Center Customer Engagement Engagement Customer Service 45

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 demand highly convenient and fast service. According to a report by Pew Research Center , 85% of Millennials say they use social media.

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Omni-Channel Self Service Customer Service Virtual Agent 359

BlueOcean

FEBRUARY 24, 2016

One of our most popular blog posts focuses on which contact center predictions from the past few years have come true in the world of outsourced customer service. In the contact center industry, this will be critical to how we evolve – and not just through the quality of the service experience via phone channel.

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Customer Service Contact Center Call Center Self Service 136

Talkdesk

APRIL 14, 2020

Laying the foundation with the right infrastructure Contact centers are finding themselves stuck between the proverbial rock and hard place. Oftentimes in 24-hour contact centers, agents share desks and equipment – including headsets. Put simply, contact centers are perfect petri dishes for healthcare crises.

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Contact Center Virtual Agent Chatbots Average Handle Time 81

Lumoa

JUNE 23, 2021

In the age of smartphones, where support is only a click away, consumers have massive expectations when it comes to customer service. In fact, it’s such a huge deal for customers today that it has overtaken price and product as the key brand differentiator.

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Trends Self Service Contact Center Omni-Channel 195

TechSee

AUGUST 14, 2018

These systems are relevant for many verticals including healthcare, finance, weather prediction, call and chat centers, desktop apps, info kiosks and more. . Current state of DSS in contact centers. Call centers are highly stressed environments. In customer service, it helps the IDSS see the problem, as a virtual agent.

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Contact Center System Average Handle Time Virtual Agent 95

AWS Machine Learning

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Contact centers are using artificial intelligence (AI) and natural language processing (NLP) technologies to build a personalized customer experience and deliver effective self-service support through conversational bots. We end by explaining how contact centers can keep AI models up to date using Talkdesk AI Trainer.

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Self Service Contact Center Virtual Agent Chatbots 86

SaleMove

AUGUST 20, 2020

Similarly, contact centers have playbooks to address customer issues and opportunities. With the expansion of self-service and the introduction of AI, the scope of the playbook needs to expand. With the rise of big data analytics and virtual agents, the knowledge manager’s job is in for big changes.

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Contact Center Self Service Virtual Agent Knowledge Base 90

CSM Magazine

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

With the COVID-19 crisis causing a significant increase in customer inquiries, more businesses are turning to Conversational AI to sustain and improve customer and employee communications. Simplifying the creation and maintenance of virtual agents across the enterprise is critical. A Platform to Handle Complexity.

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Omni-Channel Tools Virtual Agent Customer Service 98

Solvvy

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

I’m pleased to share the first result of our shared vision, which centers around rapid innovation and a total focus on delivering happiness. Zoom Virtual Agent , an intelligent conversational AI chatbot solution, uses natural language processing and machine learning to accurately understand and painlessly resolve issues for customers.

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Virtual Agent Meeting Contact Center Chatbots 62

Talkdesk

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

This tendency, coupled with increasingly mature artificial intelligence (AI) technologies, has raised attention to the role and impact of virtual agents in contact centers and customer experience (CX). What is a virtual agent? The post What is a virtual agent and how does it work?

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Virtual Agent Self Service Contact Center Knowledge Base 65

West Monroe

JULY 24, 2017

If you are keen on customer-centricity, you need to think about making strategic investments in customer service technologies – especially within your contact center. Contact centers will continue to get smaller and smarter as self-service, automated engagement, and digital operations mature.

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Virtual Agent Contact Center Self Service Technology 53

TechSee

JANUARY 14, 2020

The global drive toward digital transformation has made its mark on contact center processes and operations, with Salesforce predicting last year that the use of AI by customer service teams would see a 143% increase by 2020. Why agents are embracing the change. Post-call analysis also benefits from AI.

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Call Center Self Service Virtual Agent Contact Center 124

TechSee

OCTOBER 23, 2018

Personalization as a driver in customer service. With unprecedented advances in algorithms and other machine learning tools, AI-enhanced solutions, such as virtual assistants or chatbots, can learn how to respond, engage or process many standard tasks — including customer service queries. . Virtual Assistants.

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Tools Customer Service Chatbots How To 157

Uniphore

JULY 21, 2021

Why are so many knowledge bases inefficient to use when contact centers invest so much money in them? How can organizations more effectively direct customers to the knowledge they’re looking for? See where your contact center makes its mark or could use a little improvement.

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Self Service Customer Service Management Contact Center 130

ShepHyken

JANUARY 4, 2022

They discuss how to use AI and automation to increase efficiency, capacity, and effectiveness within your contact center and ultimately deliver a better customer experience. How can customers move through different modes of communications, including voice and digital channels, seamlessly without having to repeat their stories?

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Virtual Agent Contact Center Consulting Communication 132

TechSee

MARCH 19, 2019

Once upon a time, measuring customer service success was straightforward. Hire some agents, train them, and use standard contact center KPIs to measure how well they perform. With many of these channels and tools enabling self-service, old-school KPIs are no longer sufficient.

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Self Service Metrics Contact Center Virtual Agent 146

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 Self Service Contact Center Wait Times 110

TechSee

JANUARY 14, 2020

The global drive toward digital transformation has made its mark on contact center processes and operations, with Salesforce predicting last year that the use of AI by customer service teams would see a 143% increase by 2020. Redefining Contact Center Agents’ Careers. Super Agents.

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Self Service Virtual Agent Contact Center Call Center 109

Talkdesk

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

Gartner’s Four Best Practices for Implementing Extreme Customer Self-Service. Who is answering calls when your contact center is closed? Who is helping your customers when they have questions and problems outside of business hours?

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Virtual Agent Self Service Customer Experience Contact Center 54