Contact Center
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the Neon Show
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Ram: Zoom's contact center business is one of its fastest-growing product lines
“And today that product is now relabeled as Zoom Virtual Agent. It's part of the contact center business, which is one of the fastest growing lines of business in Zoom. Most people know meetings and Zoom phone. The contact center is actually growing very, very …”
Hughes: Traditional contact centers manually audit only 1% of conversation volume
“Historically, that was very laborious. It would be, ah, human auditing transcripts with a rubric, ah, only getting to one percent of that conversation volume, and then doing follow-up classroom-based learning.”
Hughes: Scaled support orgs have 1 trainer per 30 agents and 1 QA per 15-20
“For every support org, scaled support org, you probably have one trainer for every 30 support agents. And like one QA analyst for every 15 to 20 agents.”
Ganesan: AI will eliminate 80% of contact center seats in 3-5 years
“So broadly, I think the total number of contact center seats will come down. My estimation is that it will come down by about 80% over the course of three to five years. By the way, timeframes are actually anybody's guess. As you know, in AI, things are changi…”
Ganesan: Contact centers will never reach 100% AI automation
“But some of these older processes, I don't ever think they will become hundred percent replaced by AI. You will have people who will be needed for complicated questions, for overseeing the bots, for teaching the bots, for compliance purposes sometimes to take …”
Benioff: Contact Center AI Transformation Will Be Incremental, Not Immediate
“It's that old phrase, people overestimate what you're going to do in a year and underestimate what you're going to do in a decade. And that is where we are with this as well, which is that, yes, we can say this is what's going to happen to the contact center, …”
Eggemeier: Zendesk AI agents make fewer errors than human support workers
“What we find right now is on our next generation agentic AI bot we have a lower error rate than a human being from a, you know, contact center, support center, answering like for like inquiries.”