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Empowering Organizations with Power Virtual Agents

By : Nicolae Tarla
Book Image

Empowering Organizations with Power Virtual Agents

By: Nicolae Tarla

Overview of this book

Power Virtual Agents is a set of technologies released under the Power Platform umbrella by Microsoft. It allows non-developers to create solutions to automate customer interactions and provide services using a conversational interface, thus relieving the pressure on front-line staff providing this kind of support. Empowering Organizations with Power Virtual Agents is a guide to building chatbots that can be deployed to handle front desk services without having to write code. The book takes a scenario-based approach to implementing bot services and automation to serve employees in the organization and external customers. You will uncover the features available in Power Virtual Agents for creating bots that can be integrated into an organization’s public site as well as specific web pages. Next, you will understand how to build bots and integrate them within the Teams environment for internal users. As you progress, you will explore complete examples for implementing automated agents (bots) that can be deployed on sites for interacting with external customers. By the end of this Power Virtual Agents chatbot book, you will have implemented several scenarios to serve external client requests for information, created scenarios to help internal users retrieve relevant information, and processed these in an automated conversational manner.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
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Section 1: An Introduction to Power Virtual Agents
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Section 2: Leveraging Power Virtual Agents on Your Website
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Section 3: Leveraging Power Virtual Agents in Teams
13
Section 4: Best Practices for Power Virtual Agents

Summary

Congratulations! You now have your first Power Virtual Agent published on a public website, and that is available for customers to use.

In this chapter, we looked at the default testing website, which provides basic functionality in the context of a sandbox website. From there, we took and published our bot to a sample website. We looked at where and how to integrate it into our site, along with some presentation considerations. We then introduced the same functionality to the Power Platform portal offering.

Finally, we closed this chapter with a discussion on strategy and how to design the PVA functionality to target various segments of our site.

In the next chapter, we will focus on a very important aspect of providing true customer support – the ability to authenticate users and provide personalized information.