This documentation supports the 21.3 version of BMC Helix Virtual Agent, which is available only to BMC Helix customers (SaaS).To view an earlier version, select the version from the Product version menu.

Use cases


Consult the following use cases for information about how to achieve value with BMC Helix Virtual Agent.

Use case

Business value

Products used

Enables users to interact with BMC Helix Virtual Agent in natural language and request services in BMC Helix Digital Workplace Advanced Catalog or search for knowledge articles in a conversational interface.

  • BMC Helix Virtual Agent
  • BMC Helix Innovation Suite
  • BMC Helix Digital Workplace Advanced
  • IBM Watson Assistant
  • (Optional) Slack, Microsoft Office 365 Skype for Business, or Twilio

Enables users to interact with BMC Helix Virtual Agent in natural language and create cases in BMC Helix Digital Workplace Advanced Catalog or search for knowledge articles in a conversational interface.

  • BMC Helix Virtual Agent
  • BMC Helix Innovation Suite
  • BMC Helix Business Workflows
  • IBM Watson Assistant
  • (Optional) Slack, Microsoft Office 365 Skype for Business, or Twilio

Enables administrators and application business analysts to create multiple specialized chatbots on a single BMC Helix Innovation Suite environment.

  • BMC Helix Virtual Agent
  • BMC Helix Innovation Suite
  • IBM Watson Assistant
  • (Optional) Slack, Microsoft Office 365 Skype for Business, or Twilio

Enables an administrator to embed the BMC Helix Virtual Agent UI in any application that is not developed on BMC Helix Innovation Suite.

  • Application HTML file

Enables an administrator to provide live chat capability for users by configuring BMC Helix Virtual Agent.

  • BMC Helix Virtual Agent
  • BMC Helix Innovation Suite
  • Live Chat

Enables an administrator to eliminate the need for end users to answer obvious questions by providing the data to BMC Helix Virtual Agent. BMC Helix Virtual Agent uses this data in appropriate context during a chat conversation.

  • BMC Helix Innovation Studio
  • IBM Watson

Enables administrators to easily chat-enable and import services from BMC Helix Digital Workplace Catalog to chatbot.

  • BMC Helix Digital Workplace Advanced
  • BMC Helix Innovation Studio

Enables an administrator to localize chatbot conversations by leveraging real-time translation providers such as Google Cloud Translation Service or Microsoft Translator Speech API.

  • BMC Helix Innovation Studio
  • BMC Helix Virtual Agent

Enables users to interact with BMC Helix Virtual Agent and request services in their locale.

  • BMC Helix Virtual Agent
  • BMC Helix Innovation Suite
  • BMC Helix Digital Workplace Advanced
  • IBM Watson Assistant
  • (Optional) Slack or Microsoft Office 365 Skype for Business

Enabled end users to view and dismiss in-app notifications or broadcasts from chatbot without navigating to BMC Helix Digital Workplace Advanced.

  • BMC Helix Digital Workplace Advanced
  • BMC Helix Virtual Agent

Enable administrators and application business analysts to use Automation Anywhere Robotic Process Automation (RPA) to automate any task or a manual flow within your application or business process by using the Automation Anywhere connector.  

Enables administrators to provide chatbot capabilities for an application so that the chatbot correctly responds to user queries, understands the chat context, and performs tasks on behalf of the end users. You must train IBM Watson Assistant to work with your data by creating intents, entities, and dialog in 

IBM Watson

 Assistant (that serve as training data for chatbot).


  • BMC Helix Innovation Studio
  • IBM Watson Assistant

 

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