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In March 2023, Microsoft announced M365 Copilot - a suite of copilots which infused their popular office applications with generative AI. For e.g. Within Outlook - users would be able to summarise emails and also use generative AI to create new emails. Within Teams - users would be able to summarise meetings, generate actions from … Continue reading Copilot Copilot Copilot – Differences between the Service Copilots
AI models are built embedded with the biases already present in the world. The training data natively includes many negative aspects of society which if not checked will continue to be present in new content generated from these models. For e.g a recent now deleted post from Buzzfeed showed AI generated barbies from each country. … Continue reading The Social Impact of AI
One of the cost of using generative AI is an environmental one. With data centres around the world already accounting for one percent of the world’s greenhouse gas emissions, this will only increase with the use of generative AI. As it relates to just search tools (e.g. Bing or Google), Martin Bouchard, cofounder of Canadian … Continue reading The Environmental Cost of Generative AI
I think we all have our opinions on the huge focus on AI right now. I have given it quite a lot of thought which I wanted to share, so I wrote a series of blogs which I will publish and would really welcome a discussion around it. Starting with - How can Gen AI help the customer service experience?
I’ve recently been speaking to several people about queues and the reason for the existence of queues. It’s believed by some that views and the ability to assign records are sufficient and that queues are unnecessary or unnecessarily complex. In this blog, I’ll explore basic queues and share my understanding of when queues are in … Continue reading Customer Service Basic Queues. Should You Use Them?
In my previous blog, I detailed how an Omnichannel trial could be created and shared how we could initiate a trial of the native voice experience. The native voice trial provides 60 minutes of voice calling minutes which can be used to evaluate the voice experience. This blog will detail how to configure a number … Continue reading Setting up Omnichannel Voice using Azure Communication Service
I previously wrote a blog detailing how to set up an Omnichannel trial. This process has changed and I thought it would be good to demonstrate the latest method of creating a trial which will allow the testing of both Unified Routing and Omnichannel Voice without experiencing errors sometimes reported. https://videopress.com/v/3H1mzMHZ?resizeToParent=true&cover=true&preloadContent=metadata Setting up Omnichannel Trial … Continue reading Setting up an Omnichannel Trial : Updated Version
I’m so excited! Omnichannel Native Voice is so close to GA I can almost taste it - not literally. But seriously, this is an exciting leap for Omnichannel which means it’s now possible to have Microsoft be the provider for the entire contact centre solution instead of different providers for different channels! The video below … Continue reading Behind Omnichannel Native Voice
If there was one thing that pulled my attention at the recent MS Inspire, it was this announcement: Satya’s announcement that D365 data will be accessible within teams at no additional cost to teams users is a welcome and to me - exciting. I’ve had some time to think about it and wanted to give … Continue reading Dynamics 365 x Teams
A popular social network which many businesses now leverage for engaging with customers is Facebook. With roughly 2.85 billion monthly active users (est as from early 2021 and not considering the catfishes which are likely included in these numbers) its no surprise that facebook dominates the social media platform landscape. According to statcounter, Facebook has … Continue reading Omnichannel for Customer Service: The Facebook Channel
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