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
Category: OmniChannel
Customer Service in the age of 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?
Customer Service Basic Queues. Should You Use Them?
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?
Setting up Omnichannel Voice using Azure Communication Service
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
Behind Omnichannel Native Voice
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
Dynamics 365 x Teams
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
Omnichannel for Customer Service: The Facebook Channel
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
Omnichannel for Customer Service: Routing vs Work Assignment
When a conversation is initiated in Omnichannel for Customer Service, the conversation is assigned to an agent in two stages. Routing - this allows the conversation to be routed to a queue based on specific routing rules allocated to the workstream. It is possible to configure basic routing rules or the newly available Unified Routing … Continue reading Omnichannel for Customer Service: Routing vs Work Assignment
D365 Customer Service: Slugs
Slugs. This is not about your average garden variety slug. This relates to placeholders that are used to dynamically show or refer to data within D365 Customer Service Workspace and Omnichannel Engagement Hub. Slugs are used in various ways and depending on how the slug is used, the syntax of use is different. In this … Continue reading D365 Customer Service: Slugs
Omnichannel for Customer Service : Custom Context Variables
When an agent accepts a chat in the Omnichannel experience for D365 Customer Service, context information is passed from the initiated chat to the agent's desktop. This context information includes pre chat variables, bot variables - if the chat was escalated from a bot - as well as custom variables sent via custom code. Context … Continue reading Omnichannel for Customer Service : Custom Context Variables