Atento has upgraded its CRM and BPO ecosystem with new capabilities, including AI features, to enhance the customer experience.
By integrating its digital features into one unified ecosystem, Atento said it improves the “agility and efficiency” of CX journeys.
The development of proprietary solutions, bolstered by AI, automation, and data analysis, underpinned this project. Strategic partnerships were forged to optimise outcomes, enriching the company’s portfolio with key collaborators such as Google, Microsoft, Meta, Crowdstrike, and others.
Eduardo Aguirre, CIO of Atento, commented:
Our portfolio is continually evolving to shape the future of customer experience, merging the finest technology with a human touch to ensure optimal business results. This work is carried out through the development of our own technologies and with strategic partnerships, which ensure specialization and greater efficiency in delivery.”
The investment reflects the company’s ambition to become a leader in Business Transformation Outsourcing.
The Features and Benefits of Atento’s New Ecosystem
Atento AI Studio, the vendor’s generative AI platform leverages the capabilities of specialists including data engineers, data scientists, prompt engineers and computational linguistics to provide practical CX solutions, such as empowering agents and digital assistants with AI-powered conversation, sentiment analysis for more human interactions and insight production, voice bots, and Intelligent IVRs.
Also notable are cognitive AI assets, particularly AI biometrics and facial recognition technology, to enhance security measures.
Atento states that it’s focusing on solutions “grounded in proprietary technologies that enhance efficiency and agility across back-office process”, citing its ecosystem’s DAP — Automatic Process Distributor. This facilitates agile task assignment in alignment with specific business rules, thereby optimising operational efficiency and productivity.
Atento’s automation deliver system also encompasses iBPM, a cloud-based solution built on a microservices architecture that enables modern business process management with flexibility and cost-effectiveness. Additionally, the evolution of digital agents, equipped with advanced conflict resolution features, bolsters tasks like collection processes.
Atento adds that it continues to invest in analytics offerings. These tools encompass predictive models, big data analytics, sentiment analysis, and the interpretation of audio data to extract valuable insights in the form of speech analytics. Leveraging a proprietary data ocean platform, they offer critical insights to optimise business potential.
This technology is also utilised in Employee Journey solutions via the monitoring of team productivity. It is integrated into platforms like Qualistore, a proprietary tool offering gamified communication, content, and training, where agents can monitor their performance, quality, and metrics, encouraging a proactive approach to boosting general performance and business outcomes.
Its application in people analytics methodologies facilitates predictive feature sets, such as anticipating agent attrition, allowing managers to be informed about proactive talent management and retention strategies.
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