NLP (Natural Language Processing) is a big topic and a quick google search reveals several definitions floating around the internet. Here’s one more from SugarCRM’s perspective: NLP analyzes communications in emails, LinkedIn, Sugar and other sources between customer facing professionals and their contacts to keep their relationships on track, helping the former provide a better customer experience to the latter.
Definitions are fine, but let’s take a look at three ways that NLP will enhance the customer experience
- Determine what customers are asking for when they send an email
This is the most basic use of NLP. NLP gives employees a head start on what a customer is requesting via email. Here’s an example, a SugarCRM customer in the financial services space is using our CRM for their customer service department. Many of the requests their support staff receives are common: transfer money from one account to another, replace my debit card, change my address, etc. NLP technology can scan email before the user even opens the message and get the process started.
- Communicate Urgency
Scanning for keywords and phrases to determine what the customer is asking for is NLP 101. The next step is to examine an email and determine urgency. Building on the example above, a request for “lost debit card” while “on vacation” is something that is likely urgent. A change of address request, while important, doesn’t reach that level of urgency. NLP can help push the urgent requests to the top of the of the customer service agent’s queue so they know what task to tackle next.
- Determine customer satisfaction.
How many times have you been asked to take a “brief survey” at the end of a support call? Consumers are drowning in a blizzard of customer surveys and smart organizations are starting to realize many people find them impersonal and annoying.
Enter NLP, which has the capability to examine email interaction between the employee and the customer and determine how happy, or how unhappy the customer is with his or her experience. Organizations can then step in and reach out to the unhappy customers much faster to remedy the situation.
These are just three basic ways leveraging NLP technology with your CRM can increase customer satisfaction, streamline processes and reduce costs. The great news is that SugarCRM is moving quickly to add more NLP-based features and tools to its offerings – like our recent partnership with TrustSphere.
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