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ACE Facebook & Messenger

Connect social media in your agents’ tools

Meet customers where they are used to communicating

With Telia ACE’s integrations with Facebook and Messenger, messages in those channels are handled in the same smooth and efficient way as any other contact channel. Listen to what is said and act directly from Telia ACE.

Social media becomes an integral part of your customer meeting. Just as your users expect.

About ACE Facebook & Messenger

In short
  • Make social media an integral part of the customer meeting
  • Create archives and statistics as for other contact paths
  • Make sure you are where the customers are
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Fully integrated with other channels  

Communication in social media can be made a fully integrated part of ACE and follows the principles of routing and analysis.

Facebook and Messenger are linked to Telia ACE and are managed as media in the agent tools. Instagram and other socal media channels are integrated through APIs and are routed as work item.

Data is stored in the central contact database for statistics and are easily available in InteractionView.

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ACE Interaction view

Follow the customer journey in an easy-to-work archive

Easy access to past interactions

Access to previous contacts in an easy-to-work archive increases the quality of the customer meeting. Reduce the risk of the customer having to repeat themselves or that it is unclear what has been said in previous meetings or when you actually talked to each other last time. It also makes it easier for an agent to pick up the thread where a colleague left it.

About ACE Interaction view

In short
  • The agent can go back and check past interactions
  • The customers do not have to repeat themselves
  • Increases the quality of the response
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Features selection

  • ACE Interaction View stores historical interactions, but you can also see ongoing interactions queued or processed by a colleague
  • Interactions can include text conversations (chat, email, SMS), recorded calls, callbacks, work items or social media such as Facebook and Messenger messages
  • In ACE Interaction View, the agent can listen to recorded calls, read chats, and e-mails
  • The agent can easily call, send SMS or email directly from an interaction in the archive
  • Set up rules for which interactions to save and for how long, for example based on media and case type
  • Choose which interaction data to store and able to search. For example, the customer’s name, case number, email address, agent’s comments
  • In case of new contact, automatic search can be done to show previous interactions for the agent
  • ACE Interaction View can be exported to other systems, such as SalesForce
  • ACE Interaction View can be populated with data from other systems, such as SalesForce

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ACE SMS

In some cases, an SMS, or 10,000, is the best communication

A powerful SMS engine

For short messages that the recipient benefits from right now, SMS is a hard-to-beat channel. A pling in the mobile and you have the discount code or booking details. The SMS function makes it easy to send SMS from the ACE Interact agent tool. And incoming SMS received in the contact center can be converted and sent for convenience to the agents by email.

SMS is also a key to a really good and tailored self-serve service; automatically inform customers by sending messages from the support system with, for example, offers, reminders or with information about changing delivery time.

About ACE SMS

In short
  • Integrated into the agent’s tools
  • Easy to import lists for bulk mailings
  • Predefined texts and spelling ensure quality
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SELECTION FEATURES 

  • If the agent wants to send a text message during the interaction, the number is pre-filled
  • Sms can also be used in ACE Survey to follow up on the customer experience using surveys. Sms survey can be sent to follow up calls, callbacks and chats for example
  • Outgoing SMS senders are configured in the ACE Admin administrator tool
  • The agent can send text messages directly from an archived contact in Interaction View
  • Use the optional IVR SMS  to send text messages directly from the voice response with a link or information that helps the user solve their case on their own
  • To ensure quality and speed up work with outgoing text messages, there is both spelling control and the possibility of ready-made standard messages that the agent can access with simple shortcuts
    • keyboard shortcuts for the most common answers
    • macros for the agent’s name, date, customer name, case number, or other interaction data associated with the message
    • available macros are managed by the coach
    • different teams can have different sets of predefined responses
  • Variables can pick data from the current contact

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ACE Knowledge

AI and data-driven knowledge base to support your agents, chatbot and smart FAQ

Smart knowledge in the customer meeting

ACE Knowledge is the centrally located and maintained source of knowledge in your organization. Knowledge that can be used, in customized variants, internally and externally, both to help your customers and to relieve and sharpen the staffed customer service. Quick access to relevant, customized, and quality-assured knowledge is a cornerstone of the customer meeting.

ACE Knowledge can be used independently, for the online customer meeting, or as an integral part of an omnichannel solution with the rest of the ACE portfolio. Use ACE Knowledge on your web to answer questions or guide further into the contact center when needed.

Smart FAQ, internal knowledge portal or chatbot. With our easy-to-work interfaces, you can get the right knowledge to the right person, regardless of channel. It’s easy to customize the look of the interfaces to match your organization’s graphical expressions, and of course, it’s just as stylish on your computer, tablet, and mobile. In the latest version, the interfaces can also meet the accessibility guidelines for disabled people in WCAG 2.1 at AA level.

Feel free to try it out yourself, we offer a free demo!

About ACE Knowledge

In short
  • Centralize knowledge and display it in the right context
  • A brain with internal and external interfaces
  • Standalone on the web or integrated into ACE
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The right knowledge at the right time

ACE Knowledge is easy to administer and presents relevant and customized content or features to end users – in the right place and at the right time.

Easy to administer

With a graphical web interface, administrators and editors easily create and maintain content, logic, contact forms, dialog trees, statistical reports, and appearance, without having to be programmers. Create guides with text, image, video, and full versioning, and make different answer variants, tailored to your audience. Build feeds and conversations and associate intents with keywords and search terms. Make sure your content ranks on search engines with SEO features and adjust content based on usage and feedback.

Easy to present

Depending on the target group, you can easily present the content in the best way. It can be like a quick-search knowledge portal for customer service employees or in user-friendly and configurable widgets for customers on the web.  The level of detail can be customized for the recipient using answer variants, the goal is for the user to be helped to quickly find exactly the knowledge, service or contact path that solves their problems best. Personalization data can be retrieved from other systems or logged-in user profiles.

Build with integrations

The functionality and benefits can be further lifted by allowing ACE Knowledge to exchange data with other systems. Therefore, there are a number of APIs and ready-made integrations that enable smart and powerful solutions, tailored to your users’ needs. Communicate with, for example, CRM, case management systems and much more.

Key features

  • AI-based and self-learning, which constantly improves understanding of users’ questions and what answers solve them
  • Modular “mobile first” design with options for presenting content in knowledge portal, inline widget, floating widget or chatbot
  • Dialog tree with counter-queries to further pinpoint user intent
  • Email forms, chat, phone, callback, web link are available contact paths directly in the widget and more can be integrated thanks to JavaScript APIs and adapters
  • “One Widget” follows the guidelines in WCAG 2.1 at AA level to meet legal requirements and make ace knowledge content and features more accessible to people with disabilities
  • Powerful customization with JSON Config to fine-tune the position and behavior of various elements such as where and when the search jaw should be available
  • Minimize “unnecessary” contacts by viewing content that is most likely to answer the customer’s question before the contact paths appear
  • Multilingual support (17 languages currently)
  • Easy to put in clear notifications to alert customers to, for example, abnormal opening hours or service interruptions
  • SEO functionality for your content to be found through search engines
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ACE Video

Personalized and easy video service

A more personalized meeting with video

Video calls and video chat in customer service are becoming increasingly popular. The meeting becomes more personal, and sometimes it makes it easier to show what something looks like. In our solution, it is possible to embed video in your app or web and the agent can start video from an ongoing chat.

Video is an integral part of ACE omnichannel offering and video calls are controlled just like other contacts in the agent’s tool, ACE Interact. It is also possible to confirm the customer’s identity via mobile bank ID.

ACE Video uses the standard WebRTC technology, which is built into all browsers, on all types of devices. This makes it easy for both customer and agent. Video in ACE requires no installation, special app or plugin and fixes screen sharing and multiparty video when needed.

About ACE Video

In short
  • More personal meetings  
  • Integral part of ACE  
  • Uses standard technology built into all browsers  
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Key features

  • Runs in browsers on all devices through the default WebRTC protocol. Works in all modern browsers
  • All standard ACE policies, such as routing, administration, reporting, intent detection, identification also apply to video
  • Start video in ongoing text chat
  • The visitor to the web can start video calls in one click
  • The customer can choose which camera to use on the device and thus switch between showing themselves or something that the conversation concerns
  • Easy to embed on your website
  • Easy to integrate into your app to give customers the opportunity to start a video conversation even there
  • The agent can forward, reposition in line, or invite more participants in an ongoing conversation by sending a link via email or SMS. It works for both text chat and video calls
  • The agent is helped to identify the participants by name and color coding, both during the call and the finishing

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IVR SMS

Send tailored, helpful SMS directly from the speech response

The helpful speech response.

With IVR SMS, it is easy to automatically send help or information, adapted to the customer’s case, directly from the voice response. The customer gets help right away instead of waiting in line for a free agent. And the agents get fewer calls with the same basic questions.

The service works both for speech responses where the customer navigates with tone selection and for solutions where the case type is identified based on free speech.

For example, the customer has moved and is calling in to update their address. The case can be identified as “change of address” either via tone selection or in free speech and the customer is offered an SMS with link to forms on the web where they can solve the case themselves. Quick and smooth service simply.

About IVR SMS

In short
  • Offer relevant help already in the speech response
  • Save time for customers and agents
  • Proactive ”call deflection”
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Effective call deflection when needed

IVR SMS can also be used to handle specific load peaks to customer service. For example, in the event of a service interruption, the system may offer to send a link to a status page where the customer can get updated information instead of talking to an agent. An effective form of call deflection.

Features selection

  • Offer SMS from voice responses for case types identified by tone selection or free speech
  • Choose whether SMS ends the call or is sent while the customer waits in line
  • Send SMS directly from speech response
  • Send SMS to numbers waiting in queue
  • Content and timing to offer SMS is configured, along with the rest of the voice response flow, in the ACE Admin admin administrator tool

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Errand log

Powerful add-on for manual or automatic categorization

Categorize with quality

Do you need more detailed categorization and follow-up of the cases you handle? Do you find it difficult to classify errands, or do you want to analyze your different entrances? In that case, the Errand Log tool is for you.

With case logging, you quickly and easily build up log forms, i.e. trees of detailed selections that can be used by administrators to categorize and log their cases. You can also build several different log forms, which you then connect to a large one. Each log form is built in different levels where available selections at each level depend on the selection made at the levels above.

Case logging allows you to optimize case management, break down cases, and identify unwanted contact patterns.

You can also export the outcomes through a REST interface, which can be useful for monitoring and analysis, for example.

About Errand log

In short
  • Simple but powerful case categorization
  • Easy for the agent to click in during interaction
  • Facilitates analysis and follow-up
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Features selection

  • Simple web interface for configuring log trees
  • Multilevel logging
  • Log options at each level depend on the previous selection in the tree
  • Outcome linked to ongoing contact
  • Manual export of log outcomes in CSV format
  • Different log trees can be combined into one whole

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Brilliant

Integrate ACE with surveys from Brilliant

Collect all survey mailings from the entire organization

Our ready-made adapter for Brilliant’s survey tool makes it easy for companies to collect survey mailings from different sources throughout the organization and contact centers in the same engine.

With our adapter, Telia ACE sends the relevant data to Brilliant so that the right questionnaire can be sent to the right customer after the end of the call with the administrator.

For follow-up, selected contact data can be sent along to provide the opportunity to connect Telia ACE statistics and Brilliant.

About Brilliant

In short
  • Combine Brilliant’s surveys with the strength of ACE
  • The right questionnaire is sent to the right customer after contact
  • Match the answers right down to the agent level
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Surveys that produce results

Do you want to know what your customers think and what creates loyalty? How do you act on your customer insights today? To get started with your customer survey, Brilliant sets a common goal and with the help of performance analyses and workshops, they lead you towards the goal – step by step. By bringing the knowledge back to the right place in the organization, the company develops towards full customer focus. Gradually, you are getting better at delivering the right value to each customer. Every day, month, and year.

Features selection

  • Integration point between ACE and Brilliant
  • Maps questionnaires down to the agent’s level
  • ACE decides when to send the questionnaires
  • Set up which calls are to be sent a questionnaire in ACE IVR
  • Calls involving more than one agent are filtered out. In this way, surveys can be followed up at agent level with correct results
  • Filter so that calls below a certain length do not generate a questionnaire

Read more about Brilliant and what they can offer on brilliantfuture.se

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ACE Conversational IVR

An IVR that understands and routes free speach

The easiest way to find your way in the IVR  

The natural language understanding in ACE Conversational IVR makes it possible to identify hundreds of different intents in your IVR. It will be more efficient, both for you and for the calling customer who does not have to navigate DTMF menus and risk ending up in the wrong place.

If necessary, the IVR asks a follow-up question, and the system then directs the call to the right agent or self-service application.

By starting from identified intent, the customer is routed directly to an available agent with the right skills. The issue is resolved faster and with higher quality, which leads to a better customer experience and a positive impression of your brand. In addition to increased customer satisfaction, this also leads to you optimizing internal resources and staff being able to engage in more qualified cases.

About Conversational IVR

In short
  • Easy for the customer who avoids DTMF
  • Direct identification of cases leads to fewer calls being forwarded
  • More possible task types provide better matches to competence
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The basis for efficiency  

The IVR is a key component of ACE omnichannel architecture for routing, administration, statistics, and uses natural language understanding to identify the customer’s issue.

The system supports multiple languages within a dialog flow and can direct the customer to an available agent with the right skills or to a relevant self-service solution. There are features for callback, hanging up and keeping space in the queue, expected queue time, place in the queue, music, opening hours, avalanche announcements and much more.

Support for different language engines and integrations  

To create the best understanding of free speech in the form of answers to open questions, ACE Conversational IVR has the possibility to use several different engines for NLU/NLP (natural language understanding / natural language processing). Choose the one that best suits the current language and application. Google technology supports both streaming audio with text-to-speech and speech-to-text APIs or exchanging audio and data with applications built in Google Dialogflow.

IVR use cases and features in selection  

  • Choose to identify customers’ intent by asking open questions and letting them describe their case, or ask questions with defined answer options (yes, no, etc.). In addition, the voice response can use additional information to determine intent and optimal forward control. Information such as calling number, case ID, customer ID. All relevant information is compiled and can be used in routing, self-service, displayed for agent, The IVR and stored in the interaction database
  • Dialogs and menus in the speech response can be provided with schedules for different behaviors depending on the day of the week and the time of day
  • Offer self-serve assistance if there is for identified intent
    • DTMF selection or free speech
    • Based on the customer’s choice or set business rules
    • As part of a natural conversation
    • Proactively encourage digital self-service (outside the IVR) based on identified intent. The IVR helps the customer to the right service by sending an sms with direct link to the relevant self-service service site or application.
  • Route calls to the right queue
  • Identify the customer via pin code or electronic ID, e.g. BankID
  • Communicate queue status to the customer as expected waiting time, number of calls ahead in queue, and number of agents working with the queue
  • Offer the customer a callback to keep a place in the queue and get a call when they arrive
  • Ability to activate avalanche messages in case of disturbances or crises
  • Information collected in the voice response, such as social security numbers, can be used through integrations to retrieve data in other systems to personalize the dialogue or improve the precision of contact forward control

Phrase handling

ACE Conversational IVR can use both pre-recorded phrases or speech synthesis (TTS) to talk to customers. In the other direction, information can be obtained by DTMF, delimited words, free speech, or a combination of technologies.

Adapters and open API:s

Adapters and APIs make it possible to create integrations with other systems, for example to create better forward control or facilitate the agent’s work by “popping” support systems with the right data in place.

Avalanche messages

Temporary messages can be configured to play for certain intents, on schedule, or activated manually. Even these “dynamic” messages can be pre-recorded phrases or play with speech synthesis. Of course, they can be sampled by the administrator before they are published and activated in the IVR.

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ACE Conversational Hub

The foundation for a customer service of the future

Modular, flexible and cost-effective

With ACE Conversational Hub, you take a holistic approach to AI and automation in customer service. A central hub with different interfaces enables components within ACE and third parties to communicate flexibly and create composite customer experiences in speech and text. In this way, you can meet current and future needs and challenges in the industry with a modular ecosystem approach. 

ACE Conversational Hub enables a variety of cost-effective solutions for dialogue-based self-service. 

It is also possible to integrate your existing solutions into new flows and thus take advantage of investments already made. 

About Conversational Hub

In short
  • Build logic once; apply to all channels
  • Integrations with AI capabilities in the cloud
  • Integration API:S against your existing self-service and backend
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A hub of the customer conversation

ACE Conversational Hub offers ready-made integrations for a variety of channels in text and voice, different platforms with dialogue in natural language, and APIs for e.g., speech recognition and speech synthesis.
Conversational Hub is integrated with ACE core features such as ACE Multimedia Routing and ACE Knowledge.

All to ensure seamless handover to agent while maintaining context and history as well as easy access to content in the knowledge base, regardless of the combination of channel and other services used in a conversation. With a growing list of ready-made integrations with external services, you can easily add the features you want. 

Knowledge everywhere

The ACE Knowledge Base is available for bots and virtual agents across all channels. ACE Multimedia Routing manages competence-based governance for all channels and media based on information about the customer’s case and context.

ACE Conversational Hub allows you to reuse investments made with the concept of “build once and use in all channels.

Features selection

Telephony channel 

  • Input/output
    • Text-To-Speech API
    • Speech-To-Text API with Streaming Audio
    • Tone selection (DTMF)
  • More ability to micromanage speech recognition by dialog state
    • Configurable timeouts (complete-timeout, end-of-speech-timeout, no-speech-timeout)
    • Return results based on complete utterances or based on timeout
    • Audio buffering to handle interrupting speech
    • Detailed speech recognition log accessible via fulfillment
  • Possibility of logging calls
    • User and bot speech in separate audio files
    • Logging the entire user-bot dialog in an audio file

Web channel (web chat, socialmedia)  

  • Input/output
    • Text and “rich media” (sounds, movies, buttons, links)  

ACE native conversational agents

  • ACE Chatbot (text)
  • ACE Virtual Agent text (powered by CCAI)
  • ACE Virtual Agent voice (powered by CCAI)

Remote agents

  • Dialog flow voice (with streaming audio)
  • Dialog flow text
  • Boost.ai (text and voice with STT API and TTS API extensions)

Other  

  • Support for anonymization of personal data – configurable by application and dialogue state
  • Mix different “Remote Agents” in a conversation
  • Full support for ACE Knowledge contact paths with handover to human agent via chat
  • Full support for business hours and real-time queue status per Chat Contact Path
  • Handover to human agent via voice response
  • Search   ACE Knowledge from any Remote Agent
  • Support for multiple text-to-speech services (coming soon)
  • Support for multiple speech-to-text services (coming soon)
  • Consumption-based billing
  • Real-time translation of speech and text with future language detection capabilities
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