Azure AI Bot Service vs. Zoom Virtual Agent

From personal experience, I can recommend the Azure AI service to reduce the burden on your customer service team, as we did. We created a customer service bot and automated our Frequently Asked Questions section, as well as an interactive platform for registering other complaints that the bot cannot handle, which are later addressed by our customer service team.

Incentivized

Really great for customers that have experience with chatbots and want a powerful platform that is continuing to evolve. It has been one of the most accurate platforms for generative AI responses and has great tools for administering the platform in a scalable manner. The tool has greatest utility for companies with existing knowledge bases that can be leveraged and with a team that can dedicate resources to continually evolving the implementation to take full advantage of the tool.

• Assembles conversational AI encounters for our clients
• Adds regular language, discourse, and vision
• Sends to well known channels with insignificant code changes

• Generative AI answers from existing documentation
• Providing tools for admins to discover and easily create new intents and workflows
• Customizing the experience by campaign, chatbot, workflow, etc. to facilitate curated experiences for customers

• Limited Natural Language Understanding, especially in entertainment contexts where slang, humor
• Works only with Azure platform only not compatible with other platforms
• Complex customization as per organization need

Incentivized

• Add more native components for integrating with data sources such as a CRM
• Methodology for session counts: avoid double counting a session if a user is handed-off between bots.
• Admin UI: there can be a lot of clicks to navigate to the correct area of the dashboard to manage settings

Azure AI Bot Service comes with an Integrated Development Environment and Bot Framework SDK that simplifies development. Having a single codebase for multiple channels, such as MS Teams, Facebook, and Slack, makes it easier to target multiple platforms without requiring redevelopment. LUIS and OpenAI can be easily integrated with your Chatbot to provide a seammless chat bot expereince to customers.

Incentivized

You can customize the experience for your clients, make it sound as human as possible and provide different paths to find the answers needed

Incentivized

Microsoft's customer service staff is friendly and extremely knowledgeable. They are always available to assist you with bot framework-related issues that you may be experiencing. They provide training sessions, manuals, and support personnel, among other things. Bugs were easily spotted and patched, which was one of my pet peeves about patching.

Incentivized

Microsoft Bot Framework is much better and well more established without a lot of proprietary software/coding language. Lex is very limited with integration with standard hardware and network configurations. Lex has performance issues and was too slow to meet near real-time collaboration requirements. Bot Framework complements many other Microsoft communication products and this was key to implementing without a lot of new training required.

Incentivized

Zoom Virtual Agent was our first choice

Incentivized

• Azure Bot will only deliver according to the granularity of the FAQ it is feed. Otherwise, it has been a cost optimization tool for our organization.

• 70% self-service for managed interactions
• Estimated $3 million in headcount costs saved
• Admin tools have reduced administrative costs by 50%