Chatbots as Part of a Digital Transformation Initiative
Digital transformation is the latest effort huge numbers of businesses are making to modernise, following on from cloud, web 2.0, digital business and others. As part of the drive to make all data part of their analytics foundation to help the business act faster and react to changing conditions, with chatbots just one of the…
Four Ways in Which Chatbots Can Help the Hotel Industry
Chatbots have the power to impact and transform the hotel industry Chatbots are the topic of discussion in every hotel conference and hospitality article. This is because of what they can accomplish for the industry. Listing it out, chatbots can – Completely redefine a hotel’s guest experience by engaging the guest in totally unique ways.…
Are Personal Chatbots the Future?
Chatbots have been around for decades, but they’ve recently garnered more attention as they become better and used even more. When Facebook opened up their Messenger API in 2016, it led to hundreds of thousands of bots over the next two years. Early chatbots were (and many still are) quite generic and impersonal. Yet the…
How Human Does Your Bot Need To Be? Science Says Not Much!
Recent research suggests that going for the all-singing, trying-to-be-friendly, almost-human bot isn’t the best way to go for most use cases. So, just how much banter or empathy should your bot show? That’s a key design decision to make when building chatbots. Bots can express themselves in three basic ways, They can deliver the basic…
How to Become a Virtual Travel Agent
Technology like cloud services and chatbots can help you build a virtual travel agent, with fewer of the overheads that such businesses required in the past. This allows you to focus on offering unique travel packages, create a better personal service while focusing on growing a hyper-local or globe-spanning business, whatever you feel the need…
Top Chatbots and Lessons You Can Learn
More chatbots were launched in 2018 than all the previous years of their existence, and 2019 will see even more arrive. Here are some of the highlights and issues raised from the recent crop, and lessons that any business can use when putting their future chatbot plans together. If NASA can’t make a smart chatbot,…