Using Artificial Intelligence to build a great future for CX
AI is already here and it’s revolutionising the way businesses manage their data to transform the customer experience (CX). Henry Jinman, Commercial Director at EBI.AI, says it pays to tread with caution, despite all the success stories and shares his top 3 Tips for before you begin… No longer confined to the realms of science […]
Woven: AI will change way businesses interact with their customers forever
In an era where technology is becoming a more significant enabler, new opportunities are being created for all of us to enrich our lives. In the world of business, this allows companies an opportunity to deliver a level of customer service that until now has not been possible. But it also brings into sharper focus […]
WHITE PAPER: How AI Improves Customer Experience
By CallMiner Artificial intelligence is being used in many ways to improve customer experience, and innovative new use cases are emerging all the time. Enterprises must reimagine their operations, with automation and AI at the center of their strategy. This paper provides an overview of artificial intelligence, explains how AI fits into the spectrum of […]
Artificial Intelligence: friend or foe? Seven ways to turn your agents into superheroes
Far from replacing people, artificial intelligence (AI) has the power to enhance employee engagement and productivity and customer interactions in one go. Henry Jinman, Commercial Director of EBI.AI, explores 7 ways to turn your contact centre agents into superheroes using conversational AI. New technology inevitably changes lives. However, rather than fear robots replacing front line customer service representatives it’s time to […]
AI: It’s a new dawn, it’s a new day, it’s a new way of customer support and engagement
With headlines stating that AI will be ‘the death of the contact centre’, it’s understandable that Contact Centre Managers might feel like the world is against them. AI-driven technology is not new, in fact people been talking about it since the summer conference at Dartmouth College in 1956, where the attendees became leaders of AI […]
Do you specialise in AI for contact centres? We want to hear from you!
Each month on Call Centres Briefing we’re shining the spotlight on a different part of the customer care market – and in June we’re focussing on Artificial Intelligence. It’s all part of our ‘Recommended’ editorial feature, designed to help customer care industry buyers find the best products and services available today. So, if you’re a supplier of Artificial Intelligence […]
AI key to customer service, but performance overrated
Sixty-three per cent of contact centre leaders agree that chatbots and virtual assistants make it easier for consumers to get their issues resolved. That’s according to findings of the second annual NICE inContact CX Transformation Benchmark, a global research study that gauges the changing attitudes of both industry professionals and consumers. NICE inContact polled contact […]
Top mistakes businesses make with AI in the Contact Centre – And how to avoid them
By Enghouse Interactive There is a great deal of discussion in the marketplace regarding robots and artificial intelligence (AI) and their future role in the contact centre. Much of this is hype. A lot of people are talking hypothetically about what robots might do in a customer service context. Fewer are using a truly AI-driven […]
UK insurance contact centres ‘battle 60% rise in call duration’
UK insurance companies expect to make significant investments in AI-enabled web chat, automated customer identification and interaction analytics technology within the next two years. A survey of over 200 UK contact centres undertaken by ContactBabel shows that insurance operations expect their use of web chat to grow from 44% today to 94% by the beginning […]
AI customer service specialist Afiniti raises $130m, is valued at $1.6bn
AI in customer service is hot right now, as illustrated by the fact that Washington DC-based Afiniti just raised $130 million in Series D funding, valuing the company at a whopping $1.6 billion. Privately-held companies with a valuation of more than $1 billion are extremely rare, and it’s expected that the firm will complete an […]
