The Home Depot and Optus virtual agents using Dialogflow CX (Contact Center AI)
The Home Depot and Optus are named customers using Dialogflow CX virtual agents in contact center operations. The article describes how the solution helps handle routine inquiries, support multi-turn conversations, and scale across channels while reducing live-agent load. It also highlights enterprise security and deployment features such as VPC Service Controls, prebuilt agents, and the visual flow builder.
- Organization
- The Home Depot
- Industry
- Retail
- Location
- United States
- Published
- January 2021
Reported outcomes
Strategic outcomes
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Use case focus
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- 1Customer Service Automation
- 2Conversational AI
- 3Contact Center Modernization
- Reduce routine handling load on contact center agents.
- Improve call containment and operational efficiency without increasing costs.
- Support complex, multi-turn customer conversations across channels.
- Deploy Dialogflow CX Virtual Agents as part of Google Cloud Contact Center AI.
- Use prebuilt agents for routine questions such as billing, order status, and location inquiries.
- Use the visual flow builder and experiments to design, test, and refine conversations.
- Connect Dialogflow CX with backend systems using VPC Service Controls.
- The Home Depot cites higher call containment rates and seamless multi-channel engagement.
- Optus says Dialogflow CX enables faster scaling of virtual agents and more meaningful customer conversations.
Architecture
Dialogflow CX virtual agents handle routine and multi-turn customer conversations across channels, with prebuilt agents, visual flow construction, experimentation tooling, and VPC Service Controls for secure backend connectivity and regionalized deployment.
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