Lumoa

JUNE 23, 2021

These include customer service analytics, engagement hubs, the voice of the customer , virtual agents (live chat), and chatbots. Omnichannel Communication While omnichannel communication has been around for a while, it only caught on in the decade gone by, thanks to a proliferation of handheld devices.

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Contact Center Omnichannel Social Media 2025 83

UJET

JUNE 25, 2021

Omnichannel call center solutions have promised for years to reduce the inefficiency and frustration that occurs when your customers switch between channels in their attempts to resolve an issue. Public switched telephone network (PSTN)caller wait time dropped to less than one minute , and PSTN call abandonment fell a solid 8%.

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Customer Journey Customer Experience Contact Center Omnichannel 82

Bold360

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

The strongest, most well-rounded omnichannel customer engagement strategies employ both live chat and chatbot integration to deliver a better, more scalable and 24/7 customer experience (CX) across channels, as well as a better employee experience (EX). The customer types a question into the chat window and receives an appropriate response.

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Virtual Agent Net Promoter Score Competitive Advantage Omnichannel 90

Think Customers

OCTOBER 4, 2021

In most cases it’s an artificially intelligent virtual agent that greets users in the corner of the screen with the option to continue the conversation with the AI or transfer to an agent. Chatbots perform an important role in the omnichannel ecosystem, but chatbot platforms often keep the customer glued to one channel.

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White Paper Contact Center Omnichannel Average Handle Time 52

Inbenta

APRIL 14, 2020

A virtual agent makes it possible to find, via a simple conversation, a multitude of information in an instantaneous way. If your target’s customer journey is made up of several contact points, it is essential to be present everywhere and the omnichannel chatbot is a great way to achieve this, but what is it exactly?

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Customer Journey Virtual Agent E Commerce Omnichannel 59

Playvox

JANUARY 13, 2022

This trend is being driven by the proliferation of digital channels and consumer demands for seamless omnichannel experiences. A modern, integrated platform also allows organizations to better orchestrate increasingly complex customer journeys and support emerging channels such as face-to-face video communications and virtual reality.

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Contact Center 2022 Omnichannel 2025 79

TechSee

MARCH 19, 2019

Modern contact centers are made up of a complex combination of humans and virtual assistants – using both natural and artificial intelligence – operating over multiple channels and using a wide range of tools to solve customers’ issues.

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Metrics Contact Center Virtual Agent Net Promoter Score 146

GetFeedback

APRIL 17, 2019

If you cover multiple communication channels (Aka omnichannel customer service ) , people will reach out: being able to choose the way to contact support simply makes it more convenient. Various text templates, suggested replies, customer surveys, the ability to use virtual agents (chatbots) + strong analytics.

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Interactions

MAY 28, 2020

The debate about multi-channel, cross-channel, and omnichannel is that of the past. Are you ready for AI or Virtual Agents? This pandemic is pushing brands to think about customer service beyond the channel. Being frugal and prudent is the key to survival and success in this economy. Where can you automate?

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Multi-Channel Customer Journey Mapping Virtual Agent Customer Service Strategies 83

Interactions

JULY 29, 2020

Virtual agents can support an omnichannel approach to customer service. Digital Transformation for Utilities. Digital channels such as mobile, online, and social media offer much promise in how utilities support and interact with ratepayers.

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Contact Center Virtual Agent Call Center Exceptional Customer Service 71

Magellan Solutions

JULY 29, 2021

Through friendly interactions, your virtual agent can ensure that your live agents speak with the most qualified leads. By pre-qualifying leads with call center AI, you increase the number of conversations for your live agents. Intelligent virtual agents work to increase contact rates.

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Call Center Social Media Omnichannel Contact Center 52

Call Experts

MAY 8, 2019

Chatbots or virtual agents can address a wide range of features and questions to provide relevant analysis and efficient protocol. Omnichannel management creates opportunity. Predict the buying behaviors and preferences of your customers. Team Member Skills Highlight: Scott Witte. Team Member Skills Highlight: Anthony Vargas.

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Comm100

AUGUST 17, 2022

And if it’s not, for whatever reason, the customer is struggling, has a problem, they need to be able to seamlessly connect to a live agent. And that is you believe very strongly in omnichannel, which means across the board, I want to have an experience regardless of whatever channel I’m reaching out on.

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Airlines Virtual Agent Omnichannel 2010 70

Forrester's Customer Insights

DECEMBER 2, 2020

Buyer demand for greater value from insights and technology such as RPA, data science, machine learning, and advanced analytics are forcing both classical BPO and omnichannel BPO vendors to retool themselves into insights-driven BPO's.

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Pointillist

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

Omnichannel Interaction Data is Siloed or Nonexistent. The amount of effort, resources and cost necessary to achieve a comprehensive and effective omnichannel strategy are staggering. Measure and Manage Omnichannel KPIs. Failure to Recognize Context Puts CX at Risk. Journeys take the guesswork out of contact center measurement.

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Contact Center Customer Journey Omnichannel Metrics 40

NICE inContact

MARCH 28, 2019

And if your bot is built correctly, you create a seamless transition to an agent with full visibility into information collected, at which time the bot itself converts from virtual agent to agent assistant.

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Virtual Agent Contact Center 2019 Consumers 59

ShepHyken

DECEMBER 8, 2017

In the era of omnichannel communication, where we have an array of channels – social media, email, messaging, voice call, companies need to identify the channels their buyer persona is most comfortable with and most responsive to. Contact Customers on their Preferred Channel. A good CRM tool can also be put in place.

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Avaya

OCTOBER 25, 2018

Halloween is coming, and to get into the spirit, we’re here to help you overcome some common contact center terrors: WFH Agents. This can be an incredibly scary subject for many contact centers—agents who aren’t physically with you in the contact center. Omnichannel Communications. Maintenance and Upgrades.

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Contact Center Omnichannel Virtual Agent Communication 64

CSM Magazine

MARCH 15, 2024

The platform brings together omnichannel interactions, AI-infused experiences, sophisticated workforce optimisation tools, and actionable analytics in a single pane of glass. We can assemble customised solutions with the exact capabilities each customer needs — no more, no less. For existing Avaya customers, the path is even clearer.

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Customer Experience Virtual Agent Omnichannel Financial 52

CSM Magazine

JUNE 16, 2023

Omnichannel AI customer support as the new norm AI enables seamless omnichannel integration (via in-app messages, push notifications, emails, etc.). IBM Watson Assistant IBM Watson Assistant is an advanced platform designed to deliver unparalleled virtual agent experiences.

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Customer Service Virtual Agent Omnichannel Multi-Channel 52

UJET

MARCH 22, 2021

We gravitate to the shinier objects and tend to focus more on the agent experience, omnichannel, and artificial intelligence. For well over a decade, the contact center industry has been putting an overwhelming amount of emphasis on the promise of Omnichannel, which is all about lessening the pain of consumers switching channels.

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Virtual Agent Contact Center Multi-Channel Omnichannel 82

Upstream Works

JANUARY 18, 2022

Rob leads the strategic vision and operations of the company with a continued focus on omnichannel innovation and a passion for exceeding partner and customer expectations. Artificial intelligence is still an important initiative, but efforts should be focused primarily on augmenting the agent’s capabilities.

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Contact Center Virtual Agent Omnichannel Measurement 78

Kustomer

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Enterprise Enterprise help desk software has extensive customization options that align with specific workflows and processes of the organization, with advanced analytics, omnichannel support, and extensive integrations. Offers omnichannel support, which includes social media, messaging, email, and more, for comprehensive customer engagement.

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2024 Multi-Channel Omnichannel E-support 98

Playvox

MARCH 19, 2024

But as customers’ communication needs and preferences shifted, contact centers today provide omnichannel support. As NLP, ML, and conversational AI evolved, modern contact centers embrace AI-powered chatbots, virtual agents or assistants, voice recognition, and other tools to deliver self-service options to customers.

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Contact Center Net Promoter Score Average Handle Time Omnichannel 74

Kustomer

JUNE 10, 2021

A holistic approach to CX doesn’t stop simply at omnichannel communication. I may know that Vasili shouldn’t go into an automated attendant to start asking me all these questions and he needs to go to a live agent right away, or his problem might be simple. Let me put them into a virtual agent.

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Contact Center Consumers Technology Interaction 97

Cyara

MARCH 13, 2020

In the last few weeks, we have witnessed dramatic stock market swings, governmental actions and WHO announcements all related to the expansion of COVID-19 to pandemic status. Needless to say, the turbulence is unsettling to us all.

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Events Marketing Virtual Agent Contact Center 67

CSM Magazine

JUNE 12, 2020

While retailers utilize a wide range of support options such as human and virtual agents, social media, or mobile apps, existing single and multi-channel support systems necessitate access to each channel separately. In contrast, omnichannels avoid adding new digital technologies to an already siloed system.

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Customer Service E Commerce Virtual Agent E-support 52

NICE inContact

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

By combining NICE inContact with SmartAction’s AI-powered virtual agent, DSW ultimately found the right human-machine balance without compromising an ounce of CX. Access this webinar: From Brick & Mortar to Digital Superhero: DSW’s Journey to AI-Powered Virtual Agents.

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Virtual Agent Customer Experience Average Handle Time Omnichannel 55

CSM Magazine

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

Despite a minority (28%) of customer experience leaders deploying virtual agents, they recognize the benefits of this human-centric approach to the contact center experience. These leaders report looking to virtual agents to not only improve their business outcomes but to create a more emotional connection with customers.

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Telecommunications Virtual Agent Contact Center Customer Experience 52

UJET

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

Contact Centers Need to Move Beyond Omnichannel as the Basis for Customer Journeys. Another myth perpetuated by the previous generation of contact center vendors is the importance of omnichannel to mapping and improving the customer journey.

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Customer Experience Contact Center Omnichannel Virtual Agent 78

CSM Magazine

DECEMBER 17, 2019

An interaction might start with a basic chatbot, switch to an AI-powered virtual agent that understands context better and finally escalate to a voice call with a contact centre agent. Investments in omnichannel CX will take off.

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Banking 2020 Customer Experience Virtual Agent 85

UJET

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

Contact Centers Need to Move Beyond Omnichannel as the Basis for Customer Journeys. Another myth perpetuated by the previous generation of contact center vendors is the importance of omnichannel to mapping and improving the customer journey.

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Customer Experience Contact Center Omnichannel Virtual Agent 56

NICE inContact

JULY 29, 2019

Approximately 200 onsite and virtual agents handle corporate, government and leisure travel, making or modifying reservations, generating quotes and exchanging tickets. Omega World Travel selected NICE inContact CXone because it is the only true cloud-native solution with omnichannel functionality and flexible scalability.

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Interactions

JANUARY 14, 2021

Questions are answered in real-time whether by a human agent or a virtual agent. A big theme in the past decade has been multi-channel and omnichannel strategies. A synchronous channel is where the customer and the brand communicate in real-time. Think of a phone conversation or a live chat conversation.

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Multi-Channel Virtual Agent Customer Journey Omnichannel 62

NICE inContact

MARCH 28, 2018

Productivity can come from several aspects like unified desktop, CRM integrations getting all customer data in a single application, seamless, omnichannel session handling, easy transfers to other agents, integration with workforce optimization, learning tools and many more. It turns out it is as much a customer experience metric.

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Metrics Customer Experience Contact Center Average Handle Time 48

Kustomer

JUNE 27, 2022

Key Features: Digital and Voice Channels, Voice, Messaging, Virtual Agent, Contact Center Software Integrations, Remote Work Price : $65/month. Shelf and MerlinAI power your omnichannel CRM with the entirety of your company’s knowledge.

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2022 Customer Service E Commerce E-support 98

NICE inContact

MAY 21, 2019

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. It may be a simple DTMF-based IVR or a sophisticated voice-enabled intelligent IVR that fully automates actions.

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