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Virtual Agents are Automating the Contact Center: Natural Language Greeting & Intent Capture

NICE inContact

This is the first of four ways that virtual agents are automating the contact center. Not only are cold transfers frustrating for customers who have to repeat themselves, but they also are the cause of large expenditures within call centers. fewer calls being transferred to live agents.

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Virtual Agents in the Contact Center: Data Gathering Made Easy

NICE inContact

But there are dozens of other processes in which agents collect information from a customer over the phone, and these calls aren’t just long, they’re expensive. These repetitive calls often come in high volumes, but are low-value, tedious conversations that simply bog down live agents.

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Bilingual Customer Support: Where Live Agents and AI Coincide

BlueOcean

The same is true for first call resolution and average handle times. 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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THREE TECH SOLUTIONS TO HELP WITH THE NEW CUSTOMER SERVICE LANDSCAPE

VDS

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).

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Contact Center AI: How It Can Transform Your CX

Playvox

AI enables customer service organizations to: Perform routine, simple tasks that are usually done by a human, improving productivity Automate basic requests that improve customer experiences Enable the workforce to efficiently handle more complex requests Contact center leaders tend to leverage AI for task automation as the low-hanging fruit.

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Don’t succumb to the ‘CX sacrifice’

Think Customers

We see the highest concentration in strategic and minor investments planned around things like intelligent virtual agents, video chat, and augmented reality,” D’Antonio added. Understand the why—and the what Call centers need to examine reasons why customers engage in the first place.

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New KPI Metrics in the Era of Self Service

TechSee

When a virtual agent fields a customer’s enquiry, collects all relevant details and passes it to a human agent for final approval, how should average handling time ( AHT ) be measured? Enterprises must consider staffing costs, call center management systems expenses and the cost of self-service tools.

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