VDS

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

Emerging technologies help companies reduce average handle time (AHT), increase customer satisfaction (CSAT), and increase profitability. The idea is to let technology handle mundane tasks, nuisance calls, and authentication, so your agents can focus on everything else. Intelligent Virtual Agent (IVA). Slow Wi-Fi?

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CSM Magazine

JUNE 12, 2020

Emergent technologies have forever changed traditional customer service support. According to customer service expert Shep Hyken, a majority of businesses believe that improving the total customer experience is a top priority and will overtake price and product quality as a key differentiator by 2020. In this in-depth article, Reina G.

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Interactions

JULY 2, 2020

2020 has brought on a perfect storm for the collections space with more debt and high delinquency rates due to the pressure put on consumers from the economic effects of COVID-19. In fact, consumer debt has risen to record-breaking heights, at over $14 Trillion by mid-2020. 2020 has tested the limits of the collector workforce.

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CSM Magazine

JANUARY 27, 2021

Calabrio , the customer experience intelligence company, features perfect customer satisfaction scores and the number one spot in three of four categories in the 2020-2021 Workforce Optimization Product and Market Report from DMG Consulting LLC. View the DMG 2020-2021 Workforce Optimization Product and Market Report here.

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Interactions

JULY 2, 2020

2020 has brought on a perfect storm for the collections space with more debt and high delinquency rates due to the pressure put on consumers from the economic effects of COVID-19. In fact, consumer debt has risen to record-breaking heights, at over $14 Trillion by mid-2020. 2020 has tested the limits of the collector workforce.

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West Monroe

JANUARY 9, 2018

Now imagine instead, you could simply “ask a friend,” your handy Virtual Assistant: “Can you book me an appointment with Dr. Brown on Thursday next week?” The good news is, the capabilities and technologies have arrived to enable these experiences, and they’re poised to change the way businesses and customers interact.

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BlueOcean

OCTOBER 22, 2020

(Trust us, we learned the hard way a few years ago when we first got into broadscale remote training for WAH agents!). Virtual Training: Moving from Just “Getting It Done” to “Doing It Well”. For most of us, the success measure for the big 2020 pivot was simply staying operational. Making Virtual Agent Training Work for You.

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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. Gartner research found that 25% of customer service operations will use virtual customer assistants by 2020.

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PK

APRIL 16, 2020

Technology-driven solutions have transformed banking and finance over the past few years. Experts project that the financial services sector will spend over $300 billion on IT products and services through 2020 as firms invest in technology to advance their digital transformation efforts.

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Interactions

DECEMBER 18, 2019

10 years ago… While there was certainly a greater shift to a more customer-centric focus than in the early 2000s, the technology in 2010 was not on par with what it is today. had been around for about 20 years, but the technology hadn’t improved much from when it was originally developed. AI and Agents: Better Together.

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Interactions

JANUARY 14, 2021

Advancing consumer technology and the pandemic has made digital transformation a top priority for business leaders across all industries. According to PwC’s 2020 Global Digital IQ survey , 66% of companies said revenue growth and profitability would suffer if they didn’t digitally transform quickly enough.

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Comm100

AUGUST 17, 2022

So, I see companies have been investing, I’m going to say around 2010, which is just a little over 10 years ago, there are all kinds of reports that came out that said, by 2020 customer experience would be not only one of the most important differentiators, but this is where companies would spend a lot of their money.

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Uniphore

JUNE 10, 2021

Our solution: educate centers on the power of automation and empower agents to use technology to their advantage. Along the way, we learned a lot about the obstacles customers and agents face today. Transition to work-at-home with legacy technology. 0% Security issues with Agents at Home. Post-2020 Company Mindset.

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Uniphore

AUGUST 12, 2021

Alexa, Siri, Google Assistant—virtual assistants have transformed how we interact with technology and what we expect from it. Unsurprisingly, sales of these multimodal assistants grew 30% in 2020, while voice-only assistants saw a 3% decline. Multimodal Virtual Agent Implementation and Best Practices. View Webinar.

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Calabrio

JANUARY 6, 2016

The “smart” technology that revolutionized our cell phones is finding its way into just about everything: medical devices, baby monitors, smoke detectors, thermostats, running shoes, even cows. The pace at which technology marches forward is just incredible. By 2020, the number of connected “things” is expected to rise to 30 billion.

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Inbenta

OCTOBER 11, 2021

According to Business Insider, nearly 40% of internet users worldwide prefer chatbots over less conversational virtual agents. . billion in 2020 and is set to gain another $95.41 What’s more, the language processing technology behind chatbots and voice interfaces is capable of learning as it goes along, evolving with its users.

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Interactions

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

Improved artificial intelligence (AI) technologies along with the widespread availability of capable devices has led to a recent surge in speech-driven conversational systems that allow users to interact with virtual agents. ” in 2018 IEEE Spoken Language Technology Workshop (SLT) , 2018. [2] 1] Price, R.,

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Qualtrics

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

Our team of CX experts have looked into their crystal balls to see what’s coming around the corner in 2020. AI will drive up virtual agent adoption – and free up humans. Contrary to popular belief, virtual agents aren’t about to replace humans in front-end operations. Well, certainly both seem viable.

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