Intelligent Virtual Assistant Software

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Genesys Cloud CX

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Qualified

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Oracle Digital Assistant

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Demodesk

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Luma

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Regie.ai

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Tact.ai

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Cortana (discontinued)

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bluecap™  AI Meeting Assistant

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UJET

UJET is presented as a cloud contact center platform for the smartphone era. By modernizing digital and in-app experiences, UJET aims to unify the enterprise brand experience across sales, marketing, and support, eliminating the frustration of channel switching between voice, digital,…

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Yellow.ai

yellow.ai (formerly Yellow Messenger) is a customer experience automation platform enabling enterprises to leverage its NLP engine to build chat and voice bots. Combining AI and human intelligence to automate customer and employee experience, the company aims to democratize AI through…

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Kore.ai

Kore.ai Experience Optimization (XO) Platform is a conversational AI platform for enterprises that automates and optimizes CX and EX. The platform includes tools to design, test, train, deploy, analyze, and manage Intelligent Virtual Assistants. The Multi-engine NLP technique and…

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Pypestream

Founded in 2015, Pypestream created the Customer Engagement Center (CEC), a conversational AI solution where the core product, the Customer Engagement Center (CEC), is an all-in-one, cloud-based suite of 12 components designed to transform any business into a fully automated digital…

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zoovu

zoovu, headquartered in New York, offers their AI virtual assistant and chatbot for ecommerce and customer engagement, guided selling, and interactive product recommendations.

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Verint Intelligent Virtual Assistant (IVA)

The Verint Intelligent Virtual Assistant (formerly Verint Self-Service solutions) is a customer-oriented knowledge management solution including technology acquired by Verint from Next IT in 2017. The platform includes voice self-service IVR, a virtual AI-guided assistant (Next IT)…

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CoSupport AI

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Google Assistant

Users can build custom conversational experiences using Google Assistant’s voice and visual APIs. Take users on journeys through a product, using Assistant’s natural language understanding (NLU) capabilities and developer tools.

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Five9 Intelligent Virtual Agent

Five9 Intelligent Virtual Agent, based on Inference Studio which was developed by Inference Solutions and acquired by Five9 October 2020, is a web based visual tool that enables users to build AI-Powered Intelligent Virtual Agents to help businesses of all sizes automate their customer…

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What is an IVA? Intelligent Virtual Assistants Explained | Intelligent Virtual Assistant vs Chatbot
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This video explains what is an intelligent virtual assistant (IVA), how it differs from chatbots, and how it adds efficiency for both agents and consumers.

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What are Intelligent Virtual Assistants?

Intelligent virtual assistants (IVAs) are essentially chatbots that use either pre-determined rules or natural language processing and predictive analytics to assist salespeople, customer success, customer service, and marketing departments. They can help reps or agents perform tasks like lead qualification, meetings scheduling, data entry, pipeline management, pre and post-event outreach, etc. These types of platforms are also often called AI sales assistants, AI virtual assistants, or virtual assistant software.

These platforms are designed to help customer-facing departments be more productive by streamlining, automating, and/or optimizing different parts of the sales and marketing funnel. A primary goal of IVA software is to help increase a company’s revenue by increasing its capacity, without needing to hire more employees.

Some products in this category, including Conversica, x.ai, Saleswhale, Amplemarket, and Drift, interface with prospective customers directly, using AI-based chatbots to follow up on inbound leads, answer basic questions, and schedule meetings. These virtual sales assistants send emails or respond to live chat messages according to rules defined by the user's sales organization, similar to the job an inbound SDR/BDR might do. Some of these vendors offer intelligent virtual assistant software for other departments too, like marketing and customer success.

Products like Edward, Cien, Zoho Zia, Tact, and Troops, on the other hand, provide internal assistance to sales reps and managers. They're focused on productivity and optimal performance—things like reminders, automated data entry, pipeline insights, forecasting, etc. Typically they interact with salespeople through email, a chat interface, or push messages.

Intelligent Virtual Assistant Features

Most intelligent assistants will include the following capabilities:

  • Cross-channel conversation capabilities (e.g. website, email, messenger, etc.)
  • Customizable chatbots
  • Live chat
  • Lead/customer routing
  • lead qualification
  • Content sharing
  • Automated meetings booking
  • data collection
  • pipeline management
  • pre and post-event outreach
  • Integrations with third-party systems

Intelligent Virtual Assistant Comparison

Before deciding to purchase an intelligent virtual assistant platform, consider the following key factors:

  1. Use case: are you primarily looking for a sales, marketing, or customer support focused IVA software? Many vendors provide intelligent virtual assistant solutions for all of these use cases, though some products specialize in one of these areas. For example, some TrustRadius reviewers note that Drift is a better fit for sales and SDR teams while Intercom is a better fit for customer support.
  2. Rules-based vs. AI-based: are you interested in a rules-based tool where you can predefine specific conversation options? Or are you looking for an AI-powered IVA that uses natural language processing capabilities to interact with customers and website visitors? Rules-based chatbots can be ideal if you’re dealing with a large volume of very repetitive requests. However, more dynamic intelligent virtual assistants and chatbots can better handle complex requests and route customers or prospects to the appropriate channel or rep.

Pricing Information

Pricing for intelligent virtual assistant software can vary from product to product. Though most vendors charge on a monthly or annual subscription basis. Products can range from $10 per month per user/seat up to $100 per month per user/seat.

Many vendors don’t openly disclose pricing information on their website but will provide a quote upon request.

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Frequently Asked Questions

What can I use intelligent virtual assistant software for?

Intelligent virtual assistants, or IVAs, can be used for a wide range of activities across different departments. For example, sales development teams can use them to help collect information about leads, qualify leads, and automate booking meetings with new prospects.

These tools can also be used by marketing and customer support teams to help answer questions from customers and web visitors, share content or links to other resources, and provide teams with a unified inbox for responding to requests.

What are the benefits of using IVA software?

One of the main benefits of using IVA or chatbot software is that it helps give your team extra capacity, without needing to hire additional employees. They can also help automate and streamline repetitive tasks that would otherwise be manual. IVAs also help provide customers, leads, and website visitors with a personalized experience.

What are the best AI assistants?

According to feedback from end-users on TrustRadius, the top-rated intelligent virtual assistants are:

You can find more information about the intelligent virtual assistant software page and a list of alternative products here.

How much does intelligent virtual assistant software cost?

Intelligent virtual assistant software can range in price from $10/mo. per user up to $100/mo. per user and above. Most vendors do not provide pricing information publicly on their website, though interested buyers can ask for a custom quote directly from the vendor.