Written by Saddam Hussain
Technical LeadServiceNow Virtual Agent is a SaaS-based platform that delivers strategic user assistance through conversations within a messaging interface. Use ServiceNow Virtual Agent chat bot to design and build automated conversations that help your users quickly obtain information, make decisions, and perform everyday work tasks.
Implementing a virtual agent chatbot to handle common requests and tasks enables users to get immediate help, day or night. Providing virtual agents on user-friendly channels such as third-party messaging apps offers a convenient way for on-time delivery. In addition, a virtual agent provides personalized customer experiences by applying and remembering user information during the conversation.
The Virtual Agent conversational interface facilitates an automated messaging session between the user and the virtual agent. The web client interface makes use of the Service Portal web widget to configure for custom service portals. The device is available in the CSM, HR Service Delivery, and ITSM Service Portals in ServiceNow.
A unified conversation includes the following:
When users start a conversation with the bot, they can enter a request or see a list of everything the bot can help. First, the chat window flashes all topics accessible to the user. Then, users use the search box and filter the list of issues if they choose everything.
The conversational interface offers users several options to manage the conversation. For example, users can stop the current discussion and initiate customer support to access a live agent for immediate assistance.
When they transfer users to a live agent, the chat window header indicates that they are now interacting with a live agent. In addition, the send icons and attachments in the chat window offer uploading an image, text, or PDF file and sending it across to the agent.
During the live chat, users can attach a file of any type (for example, an image of, text, or PDF file) and send it to the agent. Then, the system automatically performs a virus scan on the file attachment. Finally, it sends the file after the successful scan.
Users get both audio and visual alerts while receiving messages from a live or virtual agent.
ServiceNow has innovative templates and pre-built natural language understanding (NLU) models for the HR, IT, and CRM conversations to deploy self-service experiences for immediate business value.
The virtual agent can add tools to identify critical topics through machine learning analysis of incident data, then recommend pre-built conversations with a single click. Employees and customers can then use straightforward language to get immediate help like shown in this preview of example phrases:
The Now Platform enables Virtual Agent to natively access ServiceNow data and provide a personalized experience across desktop and mobile. The virtual agent uses the service menu, NOW platform data, and knowledge base articles for solving common requests.
Virtual Agent Designer offers a graphical interface for anyone to build and test conversations using a simple drag and drop designer to deliver a matching look and feel representing your brand value.
Developers can access the tools to build advanced scenarios with support for previews, testing, branching, looping, and scripting that connect to third-party APIs.
Create and tune sophisticated models specific to your organization's vocabulary and acronyms without writing a line of code. Instead, enable anyone to define intents and connect entities to your Now Platform data by entering sample sentences and synonyms.
Free up valuable agent time for high-priority or more complicated issues. Incident auto-resolution identifies user intentions in matters submitted and, if an existing Virtual Agent topic can resolve them, proactively initiates a conversation with the end-user. If additional assistance is needed, a live agent will promptly assist the end-user to resolve the issues.
It can seamlessly transfer chat history and conversation context to a human agent to allow experts for each topic to jump into the conversation, understand the situation thoroughly, and quickly resolve the request.
The virtual agent comes equipped with powerful and fully customizable analytics capabilities that give administrators insights into user interactions. In addition, these real-time dashboards come from a single data source that enables C-level executives to make quick, informed decisions at a glance.
Gain quick visibility into ticket deflection rates and cost avoidance
Understand how Virtual Agent can boost your company's resolution delivery.
Determine escalated topics to the virtual agents.
Leverage innovative integrations with Slack, Microsoft Teams, Facebook Messenger, Workplace by Facebook, and WhatsApp that extend Virtual Agent or offer customized integrations with any channel.
Bring the power of Virtual Agent to users by integrating with any messaging interface.
Provide a seamless experience by integrating with a primary bot that manages communication with Virtual Agent
Ready to talk about the details with Royal Cyber team? Virtual Agent comes with our custom packages to fit your business needs. As a ServiceNow Certified Partner, we can help you adopt enterprise chatbots. For more information, you can email us at [email protected]
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