What are Chatbots?
Chatbots are computer programmed conversational interface which is incorporated on the website or mobile (app) platform to simulate a natural conversation with people in textual or auditory method.
Since inception, Chatbots went through many stages from where they currently stand, as smarter and intelligent interface. Intelligent bots are computer programs that leverage artificial intelligence to enable natural conversations with people.
This capability of a Chatbot can be utilized to perform various simple applications like setting up an appointment on a digital calendar, booking a cab, giving weather forecast etc. Thus, they can help automate the things at primary level. This quality of Chatbot can be leveraged to make them work as an Office Assistant, Customer service and booking agent in the corporate world.
Where Chabot’s are incorporated?
Chatbots can be incorporated on the following platforms
- Websites
- Messaging Apps or any mobile apps
- Social Media website (Facebook)
Why Chatbot stands out?
- They are capable of processing Natural language commands, so the task is conveyed faster instead of typing.
- 24/7 customer interaction and presence reducing customer support cost drastically.
- Pushes relevant content based on response
- Personalization to enhance sales and generate revenue.
- Help automate fraud prevention processes
What are the applications Chatbots are capable of handling?
Chatbots are capable of managing several applications as follows.
- Customer Service Assistant at Primary level
- Book agent by means of Web or App interface
- Office assistant: To notify or generate alert.
- There are educational bots smartly capable of pulling data from Wikipedia or other search engines
- An Analyst which can analyze data and generate report (Intelligent BOT) or suggest beneficial action
Business Applications or Internal Applications
- All this while we have been talking about the BOTs interfacing to the client’s side, they are also capable of handling internal interface.
- Chabot’s can drastically reduce the fetch time of the data being called from a system. In the conventional way it takes around 4-6 hours to fetch the data from ERP server, using the Chatbot it becomes instantaneous. Thus, a massive amount of time is being saved reducing the operational time, can be utilized to perform strategic operations thereby leveraging the capability of a chatbot.
- Chatbots has also been utilized internally within an organization, to perform Human resource related activities which involves taking feedback, requesting for leave etc.
All though there is a wide array of applications where Chatbots can be implemented their usage depends on the correctness and reliability of the Chatbot when implemented. Effort has been spent by the IT service providers and developers giants to make Chatbots more smarter and Intelligent, more human. Thus, the future for Bots is bright.
