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Helping AI Help Agents: A Better Way to Use AI Applications in the Contact Center

Upstream Works

After five years of providing what amounted to call center plumbing, we had really zeroed in on what call centers did and realized that the heart of a call center was and always will be the people that operate the phones. The contact center was even more complicated.

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Omnichannel Customer Service is Important, But Don’t Hang up the Phone!

Advantage Communications

In this blog we often talk about the innovative omnichannel technology that a modern outsourced call center will bring to your organization, and how those technologies will help your company realize significant benefits to your customer service strategy.

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How to Improve Contact Center Optimization with Customer Journeys

Pointillist

The pressure to reduce contact center costs is immense. But many contact center leaders struggle to achieve these outcomes while simultaneously improving customer satisfaction. Contact centers are now considered more than just service centers. Omnichannel Interaction Data is Siloed or Nonexistent.

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Streamline the Customer Journey for a Better Mobile-First Customer Experience

UJET

We’re long past the days where customer experience is an afterthought and the contact center is viewed as a cost center. Unsurprisingly, mobile usage skyrocketed during the pandemic, and the percentage of mobile interactions with the contact center is now estimated to be 80% or higher globally.

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New KPI Metrics in the Era of Self Service

TechSee

Hire some agents, train them, and use standard contact center KPIs to measure how well they perform. 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?

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The Power of Voice for Utility Providers

Interactions

While digital channels are increasingly a growing means for consumers to reach their utility when service is required, the majority of customer care issues are still handled by contact center agents. Virtual agents can support an omnichannel approach to customer service.

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Empathetic AI Robots; A Threat Or A Treat In Telemarketing Philippines?

Magellan Solutions

The coronavirus pandemic has been tough on the contact center services Philippines and on a global level. . million people employed by call center outsourcing Philippines. . AI-enabled conversational agents, for example, are expected to handle 20% of all customer service requests by 2022.