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What can a chatbot do for your company?

Blog: AuraQuantic Blog

To solve a problem or to achieve a goal people
generally prefer to communicate than use web interfaces. In fact, for many
years, instant messaging applications have been positioned at the top of the
list of most downloaded apps, therefore integration with chatbots seems to be the
most logical choice which will also give companies a competitive advantage.

A common misconception is that bots can
only be used for customer services, but the reality is very different, since we
can use them to fill out forms, to connect with databases, to input personalized
information and to send notifications, etc.

Why send an email with a special offer,
when we can connect with the customer using their own messaging application and
take advantage of the data, we already have stored in our database, to fill in
the information needed for an order?

WHAT IS A BOT?

The word bot is the abbreviation for robot
and according to Wikipedia, it is a computer program that performs repetitive
tasks over the Internet. This definition is correct to refer to bots that
search the web for content (web crawler) or that aim to collect emails and then
flood them with advertising, or even those that look for software
vulnerabilities.

However, this definition is not very
precise when it comes to social and conversational bots:

Original Wikipedia articles: Bot, Social Bot and Conversational Bot.

WHY DO COMPANIES NEED CHATBOTS TO INTERACT LIKE
BUSINESSES?

In the article, ‘4 Uses for Chatbots in the Enterprise’, Magnus
Revang
, research director at Gartner, was quoted saying “While most of the chatbot hype focuses on customer-facing
scenarios, there are significant benefits for employees too. Chatbots need to
be included in mobile app strategies to get ahead of this trend or it will
disrupt patterns of employee interaction with no enterprise involvement.”

It’s no exaggeration to say that people no
longer want to browse; they want to access information easily and immediately.
Who hasn’t experienced the frustration of not being able to find specific
content on a website? Today’s users are increasingly accustomed to interacting
with assistants to get what they need, and companies need to renew their access
channels to meet this demand.

According to Strategy Analytics data, more
than 70% of consumers already use a voice assistance, and many agencies predict
that by 2020, voice searches on the Internet will account for 50% of the total.

In conclusion, Magnus Revang is not
unrealistic when it comes to stressing the need to include chatbots in our work
dynamic and to be ahead of the trend before it strikes.

ADDING CHATBOTS TO OUR AUTOMATED PROCESSES

Chatbots have come to the business world to
stay and there are already many examples of companies that are starting to use
them to communicate with their customers. However, we can make much greater use
of the bots, as they can be used to improve processes and advance our digital
transformation.

Can we imagine a process managed by
WhatsApp? Surely our salespeople would be delighted if they could have a
process that allowed them to send their conversations through WhatsApp as a
form of reporting on a sales action.

Recently, we demonstrated in the webinar “Mejore la atención al cliente integrando sus procesos de negocio con WhatsApp” (Improve customer service by integrating your business processes with WhatsApp) how our Costa Rican partner, GPG, was able to integrate business processes with WhatsApp and manage any business process.

HOW TO START USING CHATBOTS FOR BUSINESS INTERACTION

If we ask about the convenience of
implementing a chatbot in the business environment, it is very likely that a
large majority will respond positively. And it is also very likely that many
will see it as a solution to provide 24/7 services to their customers. Although
it is hard to believe, there is still a very high percentage of companies that
take more than 24 hours to respond to their customers.

Chatbots can be integrated with our
automated processes and can improve them in many ways.  Before we implement any new technology, the
first step is to define our needs, and expectations from the chatbot, and
determine what tasks the chatbot can help us with.

In general, a chatbot will help to simplify
operations, so we must identify the areas in which it will be most useful.
Subsequently, we need to measure, test and train the bot to achieve the best
results.

There is a high percentage of users who
prefer chatbot applications when they want to get answers to simple questions
or resolve specific doubts. So, it seems inevitable that companies will
consider using them to interact with their users (customers, employees,
suppliers, etc) using new bot-based interfaces.

Another important benefit is that the use
of chatbots will provide us with a history of all conversations, thus providing
us with the data we need to optimize the tool, and therefore the organization.

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