No matter your profession, having an assistant to provide some help would be awesome. Someone to compile data, run reports, enter information into systems, look up key details, and even order your new business cards after your promotion. Unfortunately, most professionals don’t have an actual human assistant to perform tasks like these specifically for them. Most of these tasks we all do ourselves, and while they all may be important and necessary, they take time away from more value-add tasks and those parts of your job you really enjoy.
Sales professionals, for example, all have a multitude of tasks they need to perform that actually gets them to their desired result: making the sale. They need to update their customer relationship management (CRM) system daily with new or edited opportunities, new contacts, notes from customer calls, and what their activities or tasks will be for the day. Not only are these updates important for each and every sales representative, but they are also critical for sales managers who need to review pipeline and forecast information and share it with executive or leadership teams. And while performing these updates or accessing sales data may only take about 15 minutes, if they are performed every business day over 1 year, sales reps stand to lose about 2 selling days. Multiply that number by how many sales reps your company employs, and we’re talking 15, 20 or even 30 selling days lost in a year.
Another example is the questions employees have regarding company policies and procedures, as well as the small issues they might encounter every day. Even the best employee onboarding and training programs are not going to help all employees remember vacation policies, or how to change insurance beneficiaries, or what to do if they need to reset a password. When faced with these unknowns, most employees are going to call the company help desk. They will probably get the answers they need, but it will cost them their time, and it will perpetuate the high costs to staff and maintain the company help desk.
So, is it possible within an organization to have an assistant for every employee? With chatbots or virtual assistants, the answer is yes. Purpose-built chatbots can be created for human resources to answer employee FAQs (frequently asked questions), and in sales to help update CRM systems and get sales collateral and data quickly through a conversational user interface. Fishbowl Solutions is leveraging Oracle Mobile Cloud Service, Enterprise, and its intelligent chatbot feature, to create chatbots for these use cases and more. We will be discussing how these chatbots get created, and why chatbots need to be built to satisfy specific use cases at Collaborate 2018 during this session: Rise of the Bot Army with Oracle Mobile Cloud Enterprise, which takes place on Tuesday, April 24th from 1:15 to 2:15 PM. Come hear how chatbots can help sales, marketing, customer service, human resources, and other departments cut costs, automate routine or manual tasks, and provide 24 x 7 customer and/or employee engagement. And yes, if you get that promotion, a chatbot could help you get your new business cards: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rOkbMiV-j0s
You can also stop by Fishbowl’s booth #848 to see a demo of Fishbowl’s Atlas intelligent chatbot. For more information on Fishbowl’s activities at Collaborate 2018, please visit this page: https://fishbowlsolutions.com/about/news/collaborate/
