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Idaho Power Rated #1 in Energy Industry Benchmark of Contact Center IVR Systems

Altivon

Idaho Power took top honors in the 16th Annual Energy Utility Benchmark Report on Interactive Voice Response (IVR) systems, released July 1, 2020 by IVR Doctors. IVR Doctors considers these the major drivers of customer satisfaction and system utilization. million calls through their IVR. and Canada.

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What Call Center Metrics mean to Customers

Taylor Reach Group

So with ‘tongue planted firmly in cheek’, I present a customer translation for commonly used Call Center metrics; SL – Call Center operators know this as Service Level ; the percentage of calls that are answered within a defined period of time. This post was published in 2011 and updates in 2018.

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What is Call Queuing and Why Does It Matter?

NICE inContact

In our 2018 Customer Experience (CX) Transformation Benchmark survey , 66% of the 2,400 customers we polled told us that—despite all the other channels available to them—their top preference to connect with a company remains a phone call with a live agent. This same rule applies when people call into your contact center. .

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Best Practices for Managing Cloud Technology Solutions

DMG Consulting

The more successful cloud-based system initiatives are those where the vendor and company sit down during contract negotiation to set expectations and document responsibilities. Best Practices for Managing Cloud Technology Solutions. By Donna Fluss. DMG helps companies select all types of contact center and back-office systems.

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The Undead: AI Can’t Die Because its Definition Keeps Changing

Fonolo

It could be that 2018 was the last stop before the runaway train to the AI singularity. Or it could be that 2018 is where ASR and NLP became mundane and machine vision really hit primetime. Rather, I see successful chat-bot projects as extensions of our decades-long effort to optimize and improve self-service. Plus so Much More!

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5 things we love about Talkdesk

Talkdesk

Founded to bring a paradigm shift into the realm of call center solutions, it became the first CCaaS unicorn startup in 2018. Offering a 100% uptime service level agreement (SLA) to its customers, Talkdesk has garnered the trust of over 1,800 innovative companies around the world, including IBM, Acxiom, 2U, Trivago and YMCA.

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Contact Center Trends 2021: The CX Watershed

Fonolo

As the focus of contact center turns to creating value rather than reducing expenses, KPIs like customer satisfaction and service level will become increasingly favored over metrics like Average Handling Time. Contact Center Trends 2018. Here are trends for 2018 that are sure to shake up the industry.