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1 online resource (247 pages) |
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Includes index. |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
| Contents |
Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright and credits -- Contributors -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Section 1: An Introduction to Power Virtual Agents -- Chapter 1: Introducing Power Virtual Agents -- What is a chatbot? -- A condensed history of bots -- Malicious use of chatbots -- Fast forward to today -- Impact on organizations -- What is Power Virtual Agents? -- The developer role in the chatbot space -- How does Power Virtual Agents add value? -- How does licensing work for chatbots? -- Summary -- Chapter 2: Licensing for Power Virtual Agents |
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Introducing the licensing and pricing structure -- Understanding Power Virtual Agents and the Power Platform -- Getting access to Power Platform -- Power Platform licensing expanded -- Imposed limits on Power Platform -- Managing Power Platform licensing -- Understanding Power Virtual Agents in Microsoft 365 -- Dataverse database capacity -- Dataverse file capacity -- Dataverse log capacity -- Licensing considerations -- The scenario -- Estimating usage -- Summary -- Chapter 3: Building Your First Power Virtual Agent Chatbot -- Completing the initial setup |
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Creating a trial tenant for an organization account -- Creating a PVA trial -- Knowing your environment -- Creating a Power Virtual Agent -- Publishing a Power Virtual Agent -- Summary -- Section 2: Leveraging Power Virtual Agents on Your Website -- Chapter 4: Creating a Power Virtual Agent for Your Website -- Introducing a PVA for your website -- The Greeting Topic -- The Thank you Topic -- The Start over Topic -- The Goodbye Topic -- The Escalate Topic -- The End of Conversation Topic -- The Confirmed Success Topic -- The Confirmed Failure Topic -- Description of the business scenario |
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Extending our basic PVA -- A look at decision logic -- Guiding the conversation -- Summary -- Chapter 5: Integrating a Power Virtual Agent into Your Website -- Testing the agent in the default demo website -- Where can we introduce a Power Virtual Agent? -- How to present our Power Virtual Agent -- One Power Virtual Agent versus many -- Summary -- Chapter 6: Handling Authentication and Personalization -- Providing generalized information to users -- Providing a personalized experience to users -- Authentication considerations -- Leveraging various data sources -- Summary |
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Section 3: Leveraging Power Virtual Agents in Teams -- Chapter 7: Building a Power Virtual Agents Application for Teams -- Description of the business scenario -- Creating a Power Virtual Agents application for Teams -- Summary -- Chapter 8: Integrating the Power Virtual Agent into Teams -- Where can we introduce a Power Virtual Agent for Teams? -- How to present our Power Virtual Agent for Teams -- Sharing a bot with your organization by submitting it for admin approval -- One Power Virtual Agent versus many -- Summary -- Chapter 9: Serving Information from Various Sources |
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The role of connectors in a Power Virtual Agents conversation. |
| Summary |
Unleash the capabilities of Power Virtual Agents to provide actionable insights to your customers and employees using automated chatbot solutions Key Features Provide instant customer support on your webpages using Power Virtual Agents Discover tips and techniques for the governance, administration, and deployment of chatbots Build conversational solutions for your web apps, public portals, and Teams environment Book DescriptionPower 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. What you will learn Get to grips with Power Virtual Agents and understand the license requirement for using it Deploy bots on public websites or web pages Create conversational solutions for your organization using Microsoft Teams Explore best practices for governance that are essential for implementing Power Virtual Agents Explore different business scenarios for implementing Power Virtual Agents Understand the integration between Power Virtual Agents and Microsoft Power Platform Who this book is for This book is for organization representatives looking to automate processes, relieve the first-contact workload of their front-line agents, and provide actionable results to employees and customers. Business professionals, citizen developers, and functional consultants will also find this book helpful. Familiarity with the Modern Workplace and the Dynamics 365 family of products will be useful. Beginner-level knowledge of Power Platform and its main modules will assist with understanding the concepts covered in the book more effectively. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
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Application software -- Development -- Computer programs.
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Microsoft software.
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Customer services -- Data processing.
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Application software -- Development -- Computer programs |
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Customer services -- Data processing |
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Microsoft software |
| Other Form: |
Print version: Tarla, Nicolae Empowering Organizations with Power Virtual Agents Birmingham : Packt Publishing, Limited,c2021 |
| ISBN |
1801072221 |
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9781801072229 (electronic bk.) |
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