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Aspect Software Announces Workforce Chatbot, Aspect® Mila™: Intelligent Assistant Brings Newfound Efficiency to Contact Center AgentsAspect (News - Alert) Software, a leading provider of fully-integrated consumer engagement, workforce optimization, and back-office solutions on premises and in the cloud, today announced Aspect® Mila™, a new interactive assistant that redefines how contact center supervisors and agents interact with workforce applications and each other. Aspect Mila is an integration of Aspect® CXP and Aspect natural language understanding (NLU) technologies. When used with components of the Aspect EQ™ Workforce Optimization™ (WFO) suite, it allows supervisors to better manage staffing requirements and empowers agents to take control of their schedules from anywhere using their mobile devices, without direct access to the WFO desktop applications. The announcement was made at the Aspect Customer Experience Event (ACE) in Las Vegas. This Smart News Release features multimedia. View the full release here: http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20160511005501/en/ 
Aspect Software Announces Workforce Chatbot, Aspect® Mila™: Intelligent Assistant Brings Newfound Efficiency to Contact Center Agents (Graphic: Business Wire) "First it was Siri, Alexa and Cortana as our personal assistants, and now chatbots are dramatically redefining how we interact in our daily lives. Consumers are quick to take advantage of the time-saving convenience bots offer and Aspect Mila is putting these same technologies and efficiencies to work in the contact center," said Mike Bourke, SVP and general manager, workforce optimization at Aspect Software. "The key objectives of Aspect's WFO solutions have always been to align support with customer demand, while incorporating the needs of employees, and managing costs. Mila represents the next level of agent empowerment and convenience, which will lead o greater agent engagement, happier agents, and ultimately happier customers." Aspect's recently-commissioned agent experience report with Pelorus Research found that 96 percent of supervisors think agents would be more satisfied in their work if they could use an interface that more closely follows the look and feel of consumer technologies like the iPhone (News - Alert). In fact, 75 percent of supervisors think that employee access to contact center software from mobile devices is desirable or essential for the agent to provide better customer experiences. Aspect Mila uses conversational SMS, desktop chat, other text channels or IVR to remotely enable employees to complete workforce optimization tasks when they need to and in a way that's natural for them. Aspect Mila benefits include:
For more information about Aspect Mila, please visit http://www.aspect.com/solutions/workforce-optimization/aspect-mila About Aspect Aspect's fully-integrated solution unifies the three most important facets of modern consumer engagement strategy: customer interaction management, workforce optimization, and back-office. Through a full suite of cloud, hosted and hybrid deployment options, we help the world's most demanding contact centers and back offices seamlessly align their people, processes and touch points to deliver remarkable customer experiences. For more information, visit www.aspect.com. Follow Aspect on Twitter (News - Alert) at @AspectSoftware. Read our blogs at http://blogs.aspect.com. Aspect and the Aspect logo, are either trademarks or registered trademarks of Aspect Software, Inc. or Voxeo (News - Alert) Corporation in the United States and/or other countries. The names of other companies and products mentioned herein may be the trademarks of their respective owners.
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