Cloud telephony company Exotel<\/a>, which has raised around $100 million in the last 15 months, including $40 million from Steadview Capital early this year, looks to transform itself as a full-stack customer engagement<\/a> platform and expand its presence in the Middle East and SouthEast Asia. It powers more than 40 million engagements for over 6,000 companies in India, South East Asia, Middle East and Africa. Its clients include Ola, Swiggy, Flipkart, Urban Company, HDFC Bank<\/a>, Zomato<\/a>, GoJek among others. “目前,我们只是聊天机器人抛光表面。我想象未来,聊天机器人将能够提供具体的帮助实现的结果对于一个给定的客户的情况,”他在一次采访中说。 云电话公司Exotel已经筹集了约1亿美元在过去的15个月,其中包括4000万美元从Steadview资本今年年初,似乎作为一个完整的转型客户互动平台,扩大在中东和东南亚。它力量超过4000万活动超过6000家公司在印度,东南亚,中东和非洲。其客户包括Ola Swiggy Flipkart公司、城市公司,HDFC银行,Zomato,GoJek等等。
Shivakumar Ganesan<\/a><\/b>, co-founder and CEO of Exotel believes human-machine interactions<\/a> will only improve with better technologies. “At the moment, we are just skimming the surface with chatbots<\/a>. I envision a future where chatbots will be able to offer specific assistance towards achieving an outcome for a given situation for a customer,” he says in an interview. He discusses the future of customer engagement, how acquisitions have helped Exotel, cost of customer engagement and more. Edited excerpts:
How is customer engagement changing with the use of Artificial Intelligence (AI<\/a>), chat bots etc?<\/b>
As many aspects of our everyday interactions turn virtual, customer expectations are at an all-time high. Customers expect businesses to value their time, ensure easy engagement, and deliver bespoke solutions for their needs. AI and chatbots are able to match some of these expectations by providing round-the-clock consumer support, thereby changing the face of customer engagement.
With the right AI technology in place organisations can reduce operational costs, increase efficiency and improve customer experience. In this uber-tech age, consumer satisfaction is directly related to the experience they have with the company and AI can be used to constantly improve it.
How have the acquisitions of Ameyo and Cogno AI helped? Are you looking for more acquisitions? If so, in which areas?<\/b>
These two acquisitions have been very strategic, as they have allowed us to offer an all-in-one cloud platform and adapt to new ways of communication for connected conversations.
With these alliances and the UL VNO license (Unified Licence Agreement for Virtual network Operator), our company now provides full-stack customer engagement solutions for enterprises, on cloud. These include monitoring customer sentiments, onboarding of new customers, zero-contact resolutions for existing customers, and various digital sales and support use cases. We will be on the lookout for more collaborations, specifically in new geographies in emerging Asia.
Quite often, customers engaging with chat bots want to connect with a human. Obviously, there are limitations of bots. Are these getting any better? How will engagement with chat bots be, say by 2030?<\/b>
Chatbots today have some limitations like gauging changes in human emotion, language sensitivity, responding to complex queries, and such. We do appreciate that as the tech stands now, companies who find the right synergy and balance between human and AI interactions, tend to perform better than companies which depend exclusively on just one solution.
However, thanks to deep tech and machine learning, chatbots are becoming more intuitive and gearing towards simulating human-like conversations quickly to get consumers what they want when they want it. Thus we are confident that things will change rapidly in the years to come with AI-driven chatbots radically redefining the customer engagement landscape. Conversational AI trends going forward are focusing on mainstream development of Emotional Intelligence in chatbots. I believe this will soon become a more critical skill set for executing higher order tasks and innovative thinking. This will happen as machine learning models will begin to understand context and the emotions of the user and adapt accordingly.
At the moment, we are just skimming the surface with chatbots right now. I envision a future where chatbots will be able to offer specific assistance towards achieving a positive outcome for a given situation for a customer.
Do you see customer engagement being run entirely by automated systems, without human intervention? If so, by when?<\/b>
I don’t think the customer engagement segment will be completely automated by AI. A hybrid between humans and AI is the likely future. There's a lot of research being carried out in this area and as new technology evolves I see chatbots perform more complex tasks and cover a wider spectrum of customer engagement processes from managing leads, to converting them into sales while responding to bespoke consumer needs.
With fewer humans in customer engagement, how is the cost of customer engagement changing for enterprises?<\/b>
Well, there is already substantial evidence that automation in the customer engagement section is helping companies save up to 30% or more in terms of costs. Companies are beginning to see the long-term benefits of this one-time investment. Automation has set in motion an entire cycle of savings for companies -- right from the costs invested in hiring, to infrastructure and training, to name but a few.
How do you see 5G impacting customer engagement, if at all?<\/b>
The availability of 5G will allow enterprises to provide better and faster customer experience with digitally enabled applications. With 5G mobile data will become more ubiquitous and thereby IP calling will become mainstream in enterprise use cases.
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AI-driven聊天机器人是重新定义客户互动:Exotel Shivakumar Ganesan
Shivakumar Ganesan联合创始人兼首席执行官Exotel认为人机交互只会用更好的技术改进。“目前,我们只是略读的表面聊天机器人。我想象未来,聊天机器人将能够提供具体的帮助实现的结果对于一个给定的客户的情况,”他在一次采访中说。他讨论了未来的客户互动,如何收购帮助Exotel,客户参与成本等等。编辑摘录:
作为我们日常交互将虚拟的许多方面,客户期望是空前高涨。顾客希望企业重视自己的时间,保证容易接触,并提供定制的解决方案,他们的需求。AI和聊天机器人可以匹配这些期望通过提供全天候的消费者的支持,从而改变面对客户互动。
正确的人工智能技术在组织可以减少运营成本,提高效率,改善客户体验。在这个尖端技术时代,消费者满意是直接相关的经验与公司和AI可以不断改进它。
有收购Ameyo和Cogno AI如何帮助?你在找更多的收购?如果是,在哪些方面?
这两个收购非常战略,因为他们允许我们提供一个一体化的云平台和适应连接交流对话的新方法。
与这些联盟和UL VNO许可证(虚拟网络运营商统一许可协议),我们公司现在为企业提供完整的客户互动的解决方案,在云上。这些包括监控客户情绪,新员工培训的新客户,为现有客户零接触决议,各种数码产品的销售和支持用例。我们将寻找更多的合作,特别是在新兴亚洲的新区域。
通常,客户与机器人想要与一个人聊天。显然,有机器人的局限性。这些好转吗?将如何参与聊天机器人,说到2030年?
聊天机器人今天有一些限制测量人类情感的变化,语言敏感性,应对复杂的查询等。我们欣赏目前的技术是,公司找到合适的协同作用和平衡人类和人工智能交互,往往比公司有更好的表现完全依赖一个解决方案。
然而,由于深技术和机器学习,聊天机器人变得更直观、传动装置对模拟人类的对话很快得到消费者他们想要什么,当他们想要它。因此我们相信,事情会改变在未来几年迅速AI-driven聊天机器人从根本上重新定义客户互动格局。会话AI的趋势前进是专注于主流聊天机器人情商的发展。我相信这很快就会成为一个更关键的技能执行高阶任务和创新思维。这个会发生机器学习模型将开始理解上下文和用户的情绪,并相应地调整。
目前,我们只是略读的表面现在聊天机器人。我想象未来,聊天机器人将能够提供具体的帮助实现一个积极的结果对于一个给定的客户情况。
你看到客户互动运行完全由自动化系统,而无需人工干预?如果是这样,什么时候?
我不认为客户接触段将由人工智能完全自动化。人类和人工智能之间的混合是可能的未来。有很多研究在这一领域,随着新技术的发展我看到聊天机器人执行更复杂的任务和覆盖更大范围的客户互动过程从管理,将它们转化为销售而处理消费者定制的需求。
用更少的人类在客户互动,企业客户互动的成本是如何改变?
好了,已经有大量证据表明,自动化客户互动部分是帮助企业节省高达30%或更多的成本。公司开始看到这一次性投资的长期收益。自动化已经启动一个完整的周期,节省企业在招聘——从成本投资,基础设施和培训,等等,不一而足。
你如何看待5 g影响顾客参与,如果呢?
5 g的可用性将使企业更好更快地提供与数字启用应用程序的客户体验。5 g的移动数据将变得更加无处不在,因此IP电话将成为主流企业用例。
Cloud telephony company Exotel<\/a>, which has raised around $100 million in the last 15 months, including $40 million from Steadview Capital early this year, looks to transform itself as a full-stack customer engagement<\/a> platform and expand its presence in the Middle East and SouthEast Asia. It powers more than 40 million engagements for over 6,000 companies in India, South East Asia, Middle East and Africa. Its clients include Ola, Swiggy, Flipkart, Urban Company, HDFC Bank<\/a>, Zomato<\/a>, GoJek among others.
Shivakumar Ganesan<\/a><\/b>, co-founder and CEO of Exotel believes human-machine interactions<\/a> will only improve with better technologies. “At the moment, we are just skimming the surface with chatbots<\/a>. I envision a future where chatbots will be able to offer specific assistance towards achieving an outcome for a given situation for a customer,” he says in an interview. He discusses the future of customer engagement, how acquisitions have helped Exotel, cost of customer engagement and more. Edited excerpts:
How is customer engagement changing with the use of Artificial Intelligence (AI<\/a>), chat bots etc?<\/b>
As many aspects of our everyday interactions turn virtual, customer expectations are at an all-time high. Customers expect businesses to value their time, ensure easy engagement, and deliver bespoke solutions for their needs. AI and chatbots are able to match some of these expectations by providing round-the-clock consumer support, thereby changing the face of customer engagement.
With the right AI technology in place organisations can reduce operational costs, increase efficiency and improve customer experience. In this uber-tech age, consumer satisfaction is directly related to the experience they have with the company and AI can be used to constantly improve it.
How have the acquisitions of Ameyo and Cogno AI helped? Are you looking for more acquisitions? If so, in which areas?<\/b>
These two acquisitions have been very strategic, as they have allowed us to offer an all-in-one cloud platform and adapt to new ways of communication for connected conversations.
With these alliances and the UL VNO license (Unified Licence Agreement for Virtual network Operator), our company now provides full-stack customer engagement solutions for enterprises, on cloud. These include monitoring customer sentiments, onboarding of new customers, zero-contact resolutions for existing customers, and various digital sales and support use cases. We will be on the lookout for more collaborations, specifically in new geographies in emerging Asia.
Quite often, customers engaging with chat bots want to connect with a human. Obviously, there are limitations of bots. Are these getting any better? How will engagement with chat bots be, say by 2030?<\/b>
Chatbots today have some limitations like gauging changes in human emotion, language sensitivity, responding to complex queries, and such. We do appreciate that as the tech stands now, companies who find the right synergy and balance between human and AI interactions, tend to perform better than companies which depend exclusively on just one solution.
However, thanks to deep tech and machine learning, chatbots are becoming more intuitive and gearing towards simulating human-like conversations quickly to get consumers what they want when they want it. Thus we are confident that things will change rapidly in the years to come with AI-driven chatbots radically redefining the customer engagement landscape. Conversational AI trends going forward are focusing on mainstream development of Emotional Intelligence in chatbots. I believe this will soon become a more critical skill set for executing higher order tasks and innovative thinking. This will happen as machine learning models will begin to understand context and the emotions of the user and adapt accordingly.
At the moment, we are just skimming the surface with chatbots right now. I envision a future where chatbots will be able to offer specific assistance towards achieving a positive outcome for a given situation for a customer.
Do you see customer engagement being run entirely by automated systems, without human intervention? If so, by when?<\/b>
I don’t think the customer engagement segment will be completely automated by AI. A hybrid between humans and AI is the likely future. There's a lot of research being carried out in this area and as new technology evolves I see chatbots perform more complex tasks and cover a wider spectrum of customer engagement processes from managing leads, to converting them into sales while responding to bespoke consumer needs.
With fewer humans in customer engagement, how is the cost of customer engagement changing for enterprises?<\/b>
Well, there is already substantial evidence that automation in the customer engagement section is helping companies save up to 30% or more in terms of costs. Companies are beginning to see the long-term benefits of this one-time investment. Automation has set in motion an entire cycle of savings for companies -- right from the costs invested in hiring, to infrastructure and training, to name but a few.
How do you see 5G impacting customer engagement, if at all?<\/b>
The availability of 5G will allow enterprises to provide better and faster customer experience with digitally enabled applications. With 5G mobile data will become more ubiquitous and thereby IP calling will become mainstream in enterprise use cases.
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