Free 14 Day Trial IBM Watson Virtual Agent: The Leader in Artificial Intelligence.
Try the Free 14-Day Trial. Once you work with IBM Watson Virtual Agent, you will realize the power of IBM Watson. Of course, you can build custom dialogues yourself. If you don’t have the time or resources, consider using Promero services. Promero professional staff offers all-inclusive low fixed rates to customize Watson Virtual Agent. This will ensure instant success and ROI for your business. As you research the hundreds of BOTs on the Internet, none match the cognitive power of the artificial intelligence of IBM Watson. BOTS are not created equal. IBM is the leader in artificial intelligence. Contact Promero today by selecting the ‘Free Trial’ button.
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Watson Virtual Agent ChatBot
Free 14-Day Trial
$ 0 USD
Try Watson Virtual Agent for 30 days and see what a cognitive virtual agent can do for your business. No credit card required.
What’s Included
- No Commitments
- Includes up to 2 Agents
- Try the full Standard Edition
- Free for 30 days
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Starter SMS Chat
$ 25 / Per Month
Good if you only need live two-way communications.
What’s Included
- 1 Action Desk user
- $25/month for each additional agent
- 5 users maximum
- 250 local mins/msgs
- Plus 250 for each add’l agent
- 1 local number
- Automation
- No Communication Studio license
Watson Virtual Agent ChatBot
Bundle with Call Center Software
$ 159/Per Month
Subscribe now for a low monthly fee and put Watson Virtual Agent and Promero CCSP Call Center Platform to work for you.
What’s Included
- Pre-trained content to accelerate your deployment
- Includes up to 10 Agents
- Secure Cloud Deployment
- 3 pricing tiers to fit service volumes
- Access to finite historical production data
- 12 months subscription
Standard SMS Chat
$ 165 / Per Month
Great for introducing automation to your communications
What’s Included
- 3 Action Desk users
- $55/month for each add’l agent
- Unlimited users
- 3000 local mins/msgs
- Plus 1,000 for each add’l agent
- 3 local numbers
- Automation
- Standard Communication Studio license
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PROFESSIONAL BOTS
$ 285 / Per Month
Perfect if you need advanced automation and integrations
What’s Included
- 3 Action Desk users
- $95/month for each add’l agent
- Unlimited users
- 6,000 mins/msgs
- Plus 2,000 for each add’l agent
- 5 local numbers
- Automation
- Professional Communication Studio license
ENTERPRISE BOTS
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Whatever your large-scale needs, Promero can help meet your goals.
ALL THE PROFESSIONAL FEATURES, PLUS
- Hands-on engagement
- Custom reporting
- Enterprise level SLA
- Custom support
- International reach
- Dedicated short codes
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Watson Virtual Agent ChatBot. Need More? ADD SMS Bot, Voice Bot, or Email Bot
Quickly and easily build a ChatBot for your organization. Use Promero’s pre-integration with Promero Call Center Software to maximize customer satisfaction, accelerate first call resolution and lowering your customer support costs. Or use Watson Virtual Agent with your existing phone system or PBX. Need a BOT to handle more communications like SMS Text, VOICE IVR/ITR or Email? Do you want your business telephone line to transmit SMS Text messages as well as voice calls? Talk to a Promero consultant about BOT options. Promero professional services team can assist with this effort. In the future, the site visitor will receive the correct answer every time. Imagine having a customer service agent that’s always available 24 hours a day. Imagine an agent that never forgets its training. Watson Virtual Agent is exactly that. It’s a cognitive, digital agent that answers your customer’s questions, responding to their needs quickly and efficiently.
1. Reduce Human Resource Cost
Minimize your dependency on higher cost channels supported by live agents by letting Watson handle customer interactions.
2. Improve customer satisfaction
Personalize your customer interactions and help them take the action they need – instantly.
3. Resolve customer concerns
Increase First Contact Resolution by solving the most common customer issues on the first touch.
Do you understand customer sentiment?
· 33% of Millennials are only willing to wait 1 to 3 minutes to get a response · 52% have hung up on a customer service call · 56% of Millennials have switched from one company to another because of underwhelming customer service · 270 billion service calls are made annually
4. Improve First Contact Resolution
Watson Virtual Agent is a way to provide automated service to your customers. Watson Virtual Agent can shorten call-handling times, reduce agent-to-agent transfers and free up agents whose talents can be put to better use. Not only is self-service immediately available 24/7, but it can significantly cut costs for companies in every industry. If Watson Virtual Agent cannot answer a customer’s question, easily transition the interaction to a live agent. The result? A better bottom line and growing customer satisfaction. The virtual agent offers a conversational self-service experience and provides relevant answers to your customers. You can easily customize your virtual agent to fit your specific business needs and your brand. Additionally, deep analytics provide insights on your customer’s interactions with the virtual agent and help you understand the changing needs of your customers.
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The Challenge: Growing Customer Expectations
As customers change, so must industry. Delivering efficient yet cost-effective customer service has always been challenging, but customers are now more demanding than they ever have been. Customers today want information fast. They have little patience for a subpar experience and they expect answers on their terms and their schedule. This is true across all demographics, but particularly acute amongst younger consumers. 33% of Millennials are only willing to wait 1 to 3 minutes to get a response to a customer inquiry before they drop. 56% of Millennials have switched from one company to another because of underwhelming customer service.2 Fundamentally, if consumers are not given immediate, accurate answers they are more likely to leave for a competitor. Organizations today are looking to solve these problems by digitalizing the customer’s experience through self-help customer service solutions. Enabling customers to get the support they need themselves is highly desirable to most firms. Done well, self-service is not only a lower cost channel, it also has the potential to be the fastest way of resolving an issue. Early approaches to self-service technology have not always been successful. IVR (Interactive Voice Response) systems in particular have been contentious as, while cost-effective, they often have a negative effect on customer satisfaction.
Operational Support Costs
The cost of providing round the clock support is traditionally high. In the current model, where the call center plays such a dominant support role, customers frequently experience problems resolving their issues, often being passed from agent to agent. Yet it is three times more expensive to handle and escalate a call than to resolve the query on the first point of contact. Put in perspective, there are 270 billion service calls annually, and roughly 50% of first calls go unresolved.3 Not only are customers unsatisfied, but companies also lose money trying to figure out how to help. Organizations also struggle to reduce the average handling time of each call or chat. Many firms find it challenging to get the right information to the customer as quickly as possible, greatly increasing the cost per call. Furthermore, when customers cannot quickly get what they need, they are likely to defect to a rival. According to RCR Wireless News, for example, a study released by the WDS found that “Only 13% of customers show the level of loyalty that would prevent them from leaving for other competitive offers or because of service disruptions.” Even if an end product works well, customers may leave solely based on customer care. RCR Wireless News also reports that a customer is “2.5 times more likely to be a switch-risk if they don’t feel valued or trust their operator” and “1.6 times more likely to become a switch-risk if they contact customer support.” Retaining customers becomes nearly impossible when users are not willing to wait for their answers. Customers want to feel valued and that their experience is tailored to their needs.
The Answer to High Quality Customer Satisfaction: Self-service.
Delivered by Bots. In many industries now, customer experience is perhaps the single most important differentiator, and it is clear that something must change to keep pace with the changing demands of customers. Conversational bots, virtual agents that users can chat with, offer significant promise. They allow users to converse with them in English—or other languages—removing traditional barriers and allowing a natural, frictionless interaction. They can play a role on the front-line of customer service to help satisfy the needs of consumers without having to resort to a live agent, improving first contact resolution and deflecting calls from higher cost channels.
Segments of One
Virtual Agents can also help personalize the experience. 94% of marketers believe that “personalization of the digital experience is critical to current and future success.”6 The difficulty that customer service managers face is not only automating and streamlining customer engagement, but building out personalized systems that keep customers feeling that they are known and heard. Personalization is set to move beyond basic recommendation engines to creating individually tailored experiences. Customers want to work with companies that understand their needs and can respond appropriately and quickly. Therefore, companies are trying not only to streamline but also to personalize the customer experience through assistants and concierge apps that truly understand the needs of the customer.
Not All Bots are Created Equal
The idea of bots and virtual agents (sometimes defined as more sophisticated bots with a greater or deeper scope of expertise) handling common customer questions is not new. However, many early bot solutions had limitations. They were difficult and slow to train, implement and maintain, leading to a poor customer experience. Early bots in particular required deep technical skills and a background in machine learning to successfully deploy. Organizations need a better solution. Deploying a virtual agent to handle level one customer support to handle frequently asked questions, freeing up live agents for more important tasks, is logical. Dealing with slow, complex and inflexible solutions is no longer acceptable.
The Cognitive Approach: Watson Virtual Agent
Watson Virtual Agent has the ability to answer commonly asked questions, based on domain and industry specific information, to give customers what they want, when they need it, as quickly as possible. Watson Virtual Agent offers customers the seamless, frictionless self-service experience that they expect from their very first point of contact with an organization. Watson Virtual Agent is a customer engagement platform that allows business users to quickly configure a customer service virtual agent to the requirements 94% of marketers believe that “personalization of the digital experience is critical to current and future success.” Watson Virtual Agent of their business without needing specific technical skills. This new platform is pre-trained with industry and domain knowledge, so putting Watson to work is quick and efficient. Tooling designed and built with the business user in mind helps to accelerate this process for non-technical users and lets them optimize the solution with ease. Watson Virtual Agent is able to provide a fast, easy, and personal customer experience.
Watson Virtual Agent Features
Pre-trained industry & domain knowledge
Watson Virtual Agent already understands many of the conversations that your customer wants to have because it comes pre-trained with industry and domain content. Watson Virtual Agent comes pre-trained with industry and domain content, on some of the most common questions your customers are likely to ask. Organizations just need to configure Watson with their specific company information and it will be ready to answer questions like “What time do you close?” or “Where’s my nearest store?” Much of the pre-trained content within Watson is cross-industry in nature, but industry-specific content is also being incorporated. What happens if Watson Virtual Agent can’t answer the question because a question is not a ‘pre-defined’ question? The answer is simple. You can train Watson Virtual Agent with the correct answer.
Pre-trained industry & domain knowledge
Watson Virtual Agent is configured, not coded – you don’t need to have machine learning or programming expertise, you just need to configure it to the specifics of your organization. Changing the way Watson responds to questions regarding the unique needs of your business simple and intuitive.
Engagement metrics dashboard
See rich analytics about the interactions your customers are having with Watson Virtual Agent and discover new opportunities to improve your customer service. The Engagement Metrics Dashboard is a graphical interface that allows access to rich analytics about the conversations that your customers are having with Watson. You can analyze trends in the conversations customers are having, understand how many users are engaging with Watson and when, and find out what their most pressing needs are, all in real-time. If organizations are curious to drill down further into their data, it is possible to export the findings in order to combine it with an organization’s own analytics tools, or to share it with colleagues.
Deep analytic capabilities
Once your virtual agent is in production, use our Engagement Metrics dashboard to understand more about the conversations that Watson is having with your customers. Analyze who is using the system and why to tune and improve your deployment.
Up and running in no time
Watson Virtual Agent is up and running fast. It’s trained on many common questions that your customers will ask, you just need to let it know about your company’s information. And when you’re ready to go, a small code snippet will be produced which is easily embedded into your website or mobile app. Once done, your virtual agent will begin work immediately.
Publishing
Once your virtual agent is trained and ready to go, the tool provides a snippet of code that can be easily lifted and embedded within your website or mobile app. Once done, your virtual agent will begin work immediately. Engagement Metrics Dashboard The Engagement Metrics Dashboard is a graphical interface that allows access to rich analytics about the conversations that your customers are having with Watson. You can analyze trends in the conversations customers are having, understand how many users are engaging with Watson and when, and find out what their most pressing needs are, all in real-time. If organizations are curious to drill down further into their data, it is possible to export the findings in order to combine it with an organization’s own analytics tools, or to share it with colleagues.
Customization
While the Watson Virtual Agent solution comes pre-trained with content that provides a fast start, there will be occasions when you want to adjust Watson further. There are a number of options to do so: – You can define a custom text response to be returned for commonly asked questions – Sometimes a text response is not the answer you need; Watson Virtual Agent can be integrated with other applications in order to provide richer responses. For example, by integrating to a billing system, a CRM system or a mapping application – You can turn the pre-trained content on or off based on their applicability to your customer environment – Periodically, you will want your virtual agent to be able to respond to questions that it has not been pre-trained on. In this instance, you have access to the powerful Watson Conversation Service, which allows you to define a custom dialog flow through an intuitive graphical interface. – Additionally, if you would prefer that a live agent handle certain types of questions, perhaps for regulatory reasons, Watson Virtual Agent can be configured to perform that hand-off.
Software as a Service
Watson Virtual Agent is a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) offering. No implementation services or build is necessary to get started as the solution is entirely delivered from the cloud. It is accessed through a web browser, with new content and features seamlessly delivered on a frequent basis, meaning that there is no concern about being on the current version.
Supported languages
Watson Virtual Agent is available in multiple languages including French, German, Italian, Portuguese and Spanish.
