It’s no secret that the customer experience (CX) has risen to the top priorities of most companies today. Businesses are putting a lot of effort into ensuring that their customers not only enjoy their experience with a company or service, but that they want to share that experience with others.
Worldwide, companies are focused on delivering great customer and employee experiences. And behind every great experience is a great workflow. That’s what ServiceNow enables. With Now Intelligence embedded into its Now Platform, ServiceNow advances its position as a pioneer delivering practical, purpose‑built AI and analytics to the enterprise. Now Intelligence enables employees to quickly and easily make decisions, solve problems, find answers and automate tasks – making their lives at work simple, easy and convenient.
“People should be able to work the way they want to, not the way that most software today dictates they have to,” said Chirantan “CJ” Desai, chief product officer of ServiceNow. “The Orlando release provides powerful new AI and analytics capabilities to help people work smarter and faster. This added intelligence will help people make better decisions via insights and recommendations, helping them predict and solve issues before they become business and customer problems. Now Intelligence built into the Now Platform is a smarter way to workflow, and that enables great experiences and greater productivity.”
With its Orlando release, ServiceNow continues to deliver consumer‑grade mobile experiences across the enterprise. And with Now Intelligence, the Now Platform delivers great experiences that:
- Help people get work done smarter and faster by automatically surfacing context‑aware recommendations, predictions and insights to help teams act on the fly.
- Deliver better self‑service experiences with intelligent, “always on” virtual agents across any channel, so customers and employees can quickly get what they need and take action.
- Better predict issues and automate actions with virtual agents fully embedded in the Now Platform. Customers and employees are now empowered to initiate workflows with dynamic conversations that deliver results by automating requests for quick resolutions anytime, anywhere.
- Enable better business decisions by driving transparency and alignment at all levels of the organization and providing teams and process owners with valuable insight into real‑time patterns and trends so they can make more informed decisions and quickly identify areas for improvement.
One of the best ways to delight customers is to resolve questions and problems as quickly and seamlessly as possible. However, this can be difficult for organizations to do well, especially as they scale. Everyone can relate to stories of sitting on hold seemingly forever just to ask a customer support agent a simple question. What’s worse is that those agents have likely answered that question countless times already that day, and every day before.
Fortunately, this process doesn’t need to continue in the future. More companies are incorporating artificial intelligence (AI) into their customer support teams to improve relationships. Further, AI is able to assist these teams in ways not previously possible.
With this said, let’s evaluate five ways you can use artificial intelligence customer support to help your support team…
Faster Answers – Agents and customers hate waiting. It’s frustrating for both parties, especially when the answers should be simple to find. AI is able to handle commonly asked, simple questions through live chat experiences and can refer customers to helpful self-service articles. In addition, they’re available 24 hours a day, meaning customers can get answers from your company at any time.
Reduced Research – Customer support teams spend a lot of their time researching answers. This increases how long customers need to wait for a response and makes agents less available to other customers. With modern technology, AI can store answers and recognize trends in commonly asked questions. This way, agents can be provided with a choice of frequent answers to automatically insert based on the content found in the ticket.
Stronger Customer Engagement – In the old days of call center customer support teams, agents were measured on how quickly they could get a customer issue resolved and end the conversation. With much of today’s customer support engagement being handled online, businesses are often looking to have more lengthy and engaging conversations with their customers now. This is where AI helps. By leveraging information procured from customer relationship management (CRM) solutions, AI can highlight key customer information and make it immediately accessible to agents. This lets them approach customer interactions with more intelligence than ever before.
Predictive Insights – Companies want to improve the customer relationship with more relevant information to increase transparency and communication. To help customers stay connected, companies are using AI with predictive insights to elevate their work. While a customer support agent isn't able to quickly scan previous products and inventory to recommend similar items a customer may like, AI is able to do that instantly.
Next Steps in the Conversation - One of the toughest things for a support team to immediately gauge is the true importance of a customer issue, especially when trying to analyze something like an email or chat message. Online communication can be interpreted in many ways, and when there are hundreds or thousands of messages coming in each day, it can be difficult to know what next steps to take with a customer. This is where AI technology using sentiment analysis can help agents determine when to escalate issues and who should handle them. With sentiment analysis, tickets are automatically categorized as “excited”, “frustrated”, or other classifications, which helps agents understand how they should prioritize their work.
To summarize, keep in mind that AI is not here to replace customer support teams, but to make them more effective. AI can compile information quickly but struggles to replace or replicate real human relationships. The use of AI in supporting support teams helps them to be more strategic and work smarter.
Reach out to our sales department today at sales@inputzero.com, to know how AI used to improve customer experience.
