Microsoft Power Virtual Agents
Respond rapidly to your customer and employee needs with Power Virtual Agents - personalised, intelligent chatbots. Discover the possible benefits and talk to us today!
What is Microsoft Power Virtual Agents?
Microsoft Power Virtual Agents allow users to create personalised chatbots, leveraging Dataverse and Power Platform’s wealth of pre-built connectors to create complex, branching conversations – without the need for programmers or data scientists, thanks to a simple, low-code development environment.
You can train chatbots using the platform’s natural language and entity extraction functionality to respond to certain phrases or words with relevant content, like ‘I would like to enquire about a product’.
Chatbots can then look up and return records from Dataverse, prompt the user to provide more information, trigger a workflow in Power Automate, or hand the conversation off to a live user via Omnichannel for Customer Service.
Benefits of Power Virtual Agents
As is key to all of the products within Microsoft's Power Platform, Power Virtual Agents boosts your team's efficiency by automating repetitive manual tasks.
Power Virtual Agents also:
- Handles those customer and employee queries that can be answered by retrieving data from your internal systems. An example of this may be 'how many days holiday do I have remaining?' or 'where is your nearest store to Birmingham?' - easily handled by a chatbot programmed to fetch data from a set location.
- Has the potential to be deployed to websites, apps, and Microsoft Teams, providing multiple channels to service customers and employees.
Features of Power Virtual Agents
- Build chatbots with little to no development experience
- Includes Power Automate functionality at no extra cost! Utilise the automation strength of Power Automate to retrieve live information, e.g. the weather, when a virtual agent is asked 'will it rain today?'
- Make your bots available across various languages and in different places, e.g. Microsoft Teams, your website and your social media accounts. That's just the beginning!
- The artificially intelligent bots will learn as they talk to your customers and employees, improving conversations all the time
- Track the responses to your chatbot and measure your KPIs against the metrics produced by the conversations had
- Rely on world-class security services provided by Microsoft so that you can be sure of compliance across GDPR and other regulations in your location
Power Virtual Agents Use Cases
Power Virtual Agents can be added into your existing business processes easily, giving back time to your users so they can provide expertise in more pressing areas.
Some common uses of Power Virtual Agents are:
- Answering customer questions about products or services, e.g. opening hours or further shop information
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Tracking the COVID-19 infection rate across various locations and countries
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Embedded into Microsoft Teams for your organisation, the chatbot can handle frequently asked employee questions for businesses e.g. remaining annual leave
As you can see, these are only a few of the countless uses for chatbots that can help your team save time and effort and communicate better.
If you’d like help getting the most out of Microsoft Power Virtual Agents, speak to us today.
Power Virtual Agents Licensing and Pricing
Microsoft Power Virtual Agents can be utilised immediately through your Microsoft 365 tenant. Users will require individual licences for Power Virtual Agents, which are free of charge. This individual licence allows users to create bots.
The costs occur in line with the number of billed sessions, i.e. conversations between a bot and a user, and are charged as per the below.
A 'billed session' is defined as a conversation exceeding 60 minutes or 100 turns, or the conversation comes to an end before this point.
Power Virtual Agents licence per tenant:
£150.80 per month for 2,000 sessions
Sessions add-ons:
£75.40 per month for 1,000 additional sessions
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Microsoft Power Virtual Agents Partner
We are a Microsoft Power Virtual Agents Partner specialising in the full spectrum of products across Microsoft's Power Platform. Whether you need assistance from the beginning with Power Virtual Agents, or a little helping hand to advance your expertise, our experts would love to chat.
The Power People have extensive experience in implementing Power Virtual Agents, from the start to the end of the process. We can suggest strategic goals, help you derive all the benefits from the Power Platform, as well as conducting the implementation and support that follows.
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