Chatbot Market - Growth, Trends, COVID-19 Impact, and Forecasts (2021 - 2026)

Posted by Statzy Market Research on May 14th, 2021

 Virtual assistants are increasing because of deep neural networks, machine learning, and other advancements in AI technologies. Virtual assistants, such as chatbots and smart speakers, are used for various applications across several end-user industries, such as retail, BFSI, healthcare, etc. For instance, the banking sector has been a significant adopter for newer technologies, primarily due to reliance on speed, trust, and communication. Chatbots in banking sector facilitates the communication and build customer relation through cognitive analytics through learning customer’s thinking for instant response.

- A chatbot is basically an artificial intelligence-powered application that converses with a human being to solve a problem or to answer a certain query. This reduces the operational time and enhances efficiency, that aides to the market growth. According to Salesforce, 69% of consumers prefer to use chatbots for the speed at which they can communicate with a brand.

- Moreover, the demand for voice-activated smart devices is gaining high traction due to high convenience and fully-automated processes. In January 2020, Google launched Meena, an AI chatbot. It is a multi-turn open-domain chatbot trained end-to-end on data mined. The neutral network of Meena contains about 2.6 billion parameters.

- Chatbots are poised to grow at a significant rate, owing to which the companies are ready to adopt the technology to their existing business portfolio.According to MIT technology review, 90% of the business reported faster complaints resolution with the bots.

- Chatbot adopters are looking towards establishing such connection with their customers to leverage on long-term relation for steady stream of revenues. This has led to incorporation of their customer service through diverse major messaging applications, such as WhatsApp and Facebook Messenger.According to a study by Accenture Digital, 57% of business claimed that chatbot delivers large Return on Investment on mininimal investment.

- The chatbot are increasingly deployed in various end user industries such as Healthcare, BFSI, Retail, among others. For instance, in September 2019, YES Bank, an Indian Private sector bank introduced YES ROBOT, an artificial intelligence-enabled chatbot to support its customers. Developed by Microsoft, YES ROBOT enables customers to perform financial and non-financial banking transactions by using conversational AI, which has extensive financial knowledge.

- In January 2020, QliqSOFT, specializing in secure, HIPAA-compliant clinical communication solutions, announced the launch of its healthcare chatbot platform, Quincy. Quincy offers chatbot templates that address care-specific use cases that include pre-configured intents and dialogue flows or customized chatbots that can be built to suit unique customer needs. As a chatbot platform, Quincy enables healthcare providers to build and deploy HIPAA-compliant, AI-driven, conversational chatbots that help them put more care-related information in the hands of their patients, facilitate self-service, improve workflow, drive better outcomes, and reduce costs.

- With the recent outbreak of COVID-19, the chatbot has been increasingly deployed by various organizations to respond to customer queries and other related information. As remote working has been adopted by the different organization due to lockdown imposed in states/countries, the company are heavily dependant on chatbots to reduce the burden of customer query due to minimal availability of customer service employees.

- Also, the chatbot is providing millions of people with the necessary information pertaining to COVID-19 daily. For instance, in April 2020, WHO has launched a Facebook Messenger version of its WHO Health Alert platform that offers instant and accurate information about COVID-19–via Facebook’s global reach.

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Key Market Trends

Healthcare Sector is Witnessing Significant Growth

- The massive adoption rate of Artificial Intelligence (AI) has been used to focus on customer satisfaction with the introduction of ChatBots. Healthcare service providers are continuously partnering with ChatBot companies to assist the patients better. The average number of patient spends about 30 minutes trying to find out the right service that their local hospital can provide, and the average nurse spends 1 hour a day trying to connect to the right doctor.

- Chatbots are being used by leading health systems to facilitate a fully conversational discovery of their services and enable seamless scheduling for their patients. With similar ease, providers are now able to track specialists and set up referrals through a single conversation with the help of conversational AI agents. For instance, Gyant chatbot asks patients to understand their symptoms and then sends the data to doctors, who provide diagnoses and prescribe medicine in real-time. In March 2019, the company reported that they prompted over 785,000 people in Latin America to successfully complete a pre-diabetes screening.

- ChatBots, healthcare service providers are proactively engaging their patients with recent in-patient procedures and chronic conditions such as diabetes, cardiovascular diseases, arthritis, etc. With a slew of advice ranging from medication reminders and lifestyle changes to mood tracking and wellness program enrollments, our service providers are able to drastically increase patient satisfaction and cut down on readmission rates.

- In a healthcare space, chatbots provide simplicity and convenience for consumers with contributing to better labor, productivity and connection to consumers for providers. For instance, Northwell Health is attempting out chatbots to help patients navigate oncology care, and Premera Blue Cross recently launched Premera Scout, a chatbot to help patients understand their benefits. Also, the Mayo Clinic is delving deeper into the technology by researching voice-activated bots.

In the current market scenario, there are several mobile applications that use AI for chat bot facilities or image analysis, that are increasingly becoming popular among mobile users. For example, consider the case of Babylon, a prominent mobile application based on AI that enables users to use an intelligent chatbot to help and relate symptoms and reach a relevant doctor through video chat.

Asia-Pacific to Witness the Highest Growth

- In the Asia-Pacific region, there are numerous startups investing in chatbot and machine learning technology. Additionally, small- and mid-sized enterprises are rapidly integrating the usage of chatbots in their customer service process, which offers seamless performance, handling many consumers, and enhancing the customer-engagement techniques. In July 2019, Floatbot created an artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot for Andhra Bank for its core banking servers to support its 50 million customers. It is designed to provide digital engagement and automated customer support, that went through a rigorous testing process involving more than 50,000 queries.

- With the rapidly expanding information and communications technology infrastructures in the leading economies, such as China and India, in the region, the market is expected to grow further. For instance, in April 2020, AI chatbot Startup yellow messengers have raised USD 20 million from an investor to meet the growing market demand. The company provides businesses with an AI chatbot for customer engagement. Currently, the comapnies chatbots are available in over 120 languages, such as Bahasa, Bengali, Cantonese, English, Hindi, and Thai. Also, through a partnership with Facebook Messenger, the company has recently been appointed by the National Health Authority of India to provide state governments with chatbots to help with citizen engagement amid the Covid-19 pandemic.

- The massive population and rising adoption of smartphone users in the region are forming a highly promising consumer pool for the chatbot market, especially for applications, such as personal assistance. In November 2019, Singapore Startup chatbot company Pand.ai received USD 1 million in seed funding. The companies chatbot offers end-to-end support in chatbot development, ranging from conceptualizing to data cleaning to testing and even running the live bot post-production.

Competitive Landscape

The chatbot market is highly competitive, owing to the presence of many small and large players in the market. The market is concentrated with the key players adopting strategies, such as product innovation, to stay ahead of the competition. Some of the players in the market are IBM Corporation, Dialogflow (Google), and Amazon Web Services Inc. (Amazon Lex), among others.

- April 2020 - IBM with its Watson Assistant chatbots is helping government agencies, healthcare organizations, and academic institutions throughout the world to use AI to put critical data and information into the hands of their citizens.

- February 2020 - Creative Virtual has a partnership with Spitch AG, the leading developer of enterprise speech solutions in Switzerland. The collaboration will utilize the best-of-breed technologies of both companies to provide their customers with innovative self-service solutions. The integration of Creative Virtual’s V-Person natural language chatbots and Spitch's voice technology brings an industry-leading voice bot offering to the market.

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