Beyond the Hype: The Reality of CX Agentic Orchestration

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Oru Mohiuddin

Summary Bullets:

• Agentic orchestration has been dominating vendor narratives as growing complexity in the CX space is driving the need for a sophisticated coordination system.

• CX agentic orchestration remains fragmented as there are still infrastructural gaps, and trust remains a major issue for customers.

Agentic orchestration has been increasingly occupying CX vendor narratives in recent years, so it is time to take a deep dive into what orchestration is and why it is becoming relevant. Simply put, orchestration is bringing people, workflows, and technology together to achieve an outcome. Depending on how far we stretch the concept, orchestration is not new, and even a deterministic call routing can be described as orchestration. The question is, what is new today and why is orchestration increasingly dominating vendor narratives?

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A New Breed of Conversational AI is Leading to Voice Resurgence in Customer Service

Oru Mohiuddin

Summary Bullets:

• Conversational AI is driving a major voice resurgence in customer service by improving the IP voice experience.

• Long call queues on account of human agents being thinly stretched across large call volumes have led to customer frustrations and poor CX, but modern versions of conversational AI are set to change that by taking away the frictions associated with voice.

It was believed that voice would diminish in value as digital channels started to emerge as an alternative to the voice channel. While messaging and chatbots offer cost and scale advantages, GlobalData’s research shows that voice continues to remain a vital channel for connecting with customers despite the frictions. Voice provides instant gratification and tends to be more straightforward to use as it does not involve navigating through messaging channels, websites and so and having to type messages. While the elderly demography tends to prefer voice due to greater familiarity, voice is seen to be popular even with the younger generation.

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