Power Virtual Agents web app

6/8/2021

Power Virtual Agents lets you create powerful chatbots that can be created with a guided, no-code graphical interface - and without the need for data scientists or developers.

The benefits of using a no-code graphical interface help to:

• Eliminate the gap between subject matter experts and development teams building the bots
• Reduce the time from when bot builders and owners recognize an issue to when it can be updated
• Remove the need to understand complex conversational AI systems and methodologies
• Simplify the need for complex code
• Minimize the IT effort needed to deploy and maintain a custom conversational solution

Using Power Virtual Agents, you can:

• Empower your teams by allowing them to easily build bots themselves without needing intermediaries, or coding or AI expertise.
• Reduce costs by easily automating common inquiries and freeing human agent time to deal with more complex issues.
• Improve customer satisfaction by allowing customers to self-help and resolve issues quickly 24/7 using rich personalized bot conversations.

Highlights of Power Virtual Agents

1. Get started in seconds. Power Virtual Agents is a software-as-a-service (SaaS) offering. It allows you to easily sign up, create your bot, and embed it into your website with just a few clicks. There's no infrastructure to maintain or complex systems to deploy.
2. Empower your subject matter experts. Using Power Virtual Agents, you are in the driver's seat. Your SMEs can create bots quickly and easily using a novel, intuitive, code-free graphical interface, eliminating the need for AI expertise or teams of developers.

3. Enable rich, natural conversations. Microsoft's powerful conversational AI capabilities enable your end users to have rich multi-turn conversations that quickly guide them to the right solution. And, unlike most products on the market, there's no need to retrain AI models. Simply provide a few short examples of the topic you want the bot to handle, build the conversation using our graphical editor and your bot is ready to handle customer requests about it. You can even try out your changes in real-time in the test pane!

4. Enable bots to take action. Bots that can chat with your users are great, but bots that can act on their behalf are even better. With Power Virtual Agents, you can easily integrate with services and back-end systems out-of-the-box or through hundreds of easy-to-add custom connectors using Power Automate. This makes it simple to create a bot that not only responds to the user, but also takes action on their behalf.

5. Monitor and improve bot performance. Power Virtual Agents lets you keep an eye on how your bots are performing using powerful metrics and AI-driven dashboards. Easily see which topics are doing well and where the bot can improve, and quickly make adjustments to improve performance.

6. Better together. Power Virtual Agents works hand-in-hand with Dynamics 365 Customer Service Insights to provide a holistic view of your customer service operations. You can use Customer Service Insights and Power Virtual Agents together to determine which topics are trending or consuming support resources, and then easily automate them.

Source: docs.microsoft.com