{"id":1503,"date":"2022-06-20T09:50:39","date_gmt":"2022-06-20T09:50:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.replicant.ai\/what-contact-centers-need-to-know-about-using-conversational-ai-for-hyperautomation\/"},"modified":"2022-12-01T16:09:39","modified_gmt":"2022-12-01T16:09:39","slug":"what-contact-centers-need-to-know-about-using-conversational-ai-for-hyperautomation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.replicant.com\/blog\/what-contact-centers-need-to-know-about-using-conversational-ai-for-hyperautomation\/","title":{"rendered":"What You Need to Know About Conversational AI for Contact Center Automation"},"content":{"rendered":"

Contact Center Automation is an emerging category in which companies automate their most common customer service calls while empowering agents to focus on more complex and nuanced customer challenges. Contact Center Automation is powered by conversational AI, which allows machines to go beyond simple routing and data entry tasks, but instead fully resolve customer requests through natural human-to-machine conversations.<\/span><\/p>\n

Today, more and more contact centers are adopting automation to offload customer service calls, chats and SMS requests as quickly as possible. Many are doing so to account for shortages in agent headcounts, plan for unpredictable request volumes, or to simply modernize their operations for the future.<\/span><\/p>\n

In any case, the goal of Contact Center Automation is to ultimately improve customer experience (CX), increase operational efficiencies, and reduce costs.<\/span><\/p>\n

The contact center is core to the success of any business, and it\u2019s undergoing the transformation brought on by automation. In a recent session at the Gartner 2021 Application Innovation & Business Solutions Summit<\/a>, Magnus Revang, a VP analyst at Gartner, discussed how to build a toolkit of technologies to succeed with automation.<\/span><\/p>\n

There are three important considerations for any automation project:<\/span><\/p>\n