Streamline your Call Center Operations with Artificial Intelligence and Chatbots

Written by emberfatimah2 | Published 2018/09/18
Tech Story Tags: ai-chatbot | chatbots | ai-and-chatbots | artificial-intelligence | ai

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Call center industry is a well-oiled business that has to deal with a vast range of customers and different internal queries that are required to be handled without any delay or pause. And if you are not utilizing advanced technology, then the chances are you might lose your credibility in the business marketplace and won’t be able to stand among your competitors. Such problems can trip up the whole system that may lead to very long response times and frustrated users. But, with the innovative technique of Artificial intelligence, companies are now able to improve their call center solutions and can highlight major future concerns.

To monitor each & every call and employee might be a daunting task, much expensive and time taking as well. Thus, with AI, call centers are able to improve their outputs and can streamline the operations more efficiently. It is now becoming the most efficient & dynamic technology that can greatly benefit your company.

Collecting every piece of chat or call by implementing AI:

If your company is already utilizing a customer relationship management (CRM) software, then it can be quite tedious to fulfill some specific requirements. This usually involves the needs to pull data and the analytics from your customer relations management software, or any other system your organization is using; which is giving the results into a long and unmanageable PDF file or Excel spreadsheet. In this way, we generally collect a range of meaningless data which needs to be omitted from the outputs.

If call centers will implement artificial intelligence, they would be able to collect some valuable data and then can correlate every interaction with their potential clients as well as the internal systems. This would enable them to reference any piece of chat or call and might pull up a wealth of relevant and valuable information.

Virtual agents can assist customers and handle multiple interactions

Instead of calling and talking with the live agent, customers can get the privilege to communicate with artificial intelligence chatbots on your business website for different issues. This would include how to troubleshoot the minor issues or to get an update on their account system. AI chatbots can also be able to field calls away from the busy agents and then gather the data from the clients beforehand.

And if the chatbot is failed to answer the question, then it would connect the clients to the relevant call center agent and then forward their interactions. The chatbot is also been able to learn from these interactions, and it will enable it to help and support the customers going forward.

Cost reductions in call center training:

With the help of an AI technology, it’s possible to deal with the lot of backend work, and can serve the agents with related information; the agents won’t need high-level training to learn everything. They will need to worry about handling customers and then pulling up the correct answers from their system. This simply means that if any agent from the staff leaves, they can simply be replaced without any hurdles, as well as it also lowers the amount of company downtime.

Artificial intelligence is the most powerful tool in the call center world; it can simply help and augment the customer support solutions within the business environment. The technology cannot only help call center owners better route the calls but also provide the agents with different tools and data they need to build for positive interactions with clients. And therefore, the end results would be more productive and reliable and can offer a high level of customer satisfaction, like a win-win situation for all the involved parties.


Published by HackerNoon on 2018/09/18