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What is an API?

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An API is an application programming interface. You can think of an API as a sort of universal translator. Different software applications have their own ways of “talking” and the API makes sure that they can “talk” to each other. APIs in action: a practical example. How APIs improves customer experience.

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What Does IVR Stand for and Does Your Call Center Need It?

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What does IVR stand for? IVR stands for Interactive Voice Response. It’s a customer service system that callers can interact with, either by speaking to it or using the dialpad on their phone. The purpose of an IVR system is to automate a customer’s call to your call center. Requests for information.

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How Delta Saves $5Million a Year With Conversational IVR Service

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But Delta Air Ways won big when they adopted conversational IVR service back in 2013. The US airline invested in conversational IVR with an aim to improve the 36 million calls their IVR handled each year. It’s too late to be an ‘early adopter’ – conversational IVR is close to becoming the default. Here’s how Delta did it.

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A Zendesk Conversational IVR

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How to Reduce Your Customer Support Costs by 85% and Take Your Customer Experience to the Next Level with a Conversational IVR That Integrates With Any CRM or Ticketing System. This type of AI-IVR capability enables your contact center to voice automate customer interactions that previously required a live agent.

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4 Ways to Slash AHT With Call Center IVR

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Many call centers are missing the ‘low hanging fruit’ of reducing handling time with their existing IVR systems. In this post we’ll see how a few simple changes to your IVR can help to lower AHT. About 20% of contact centers have never updated their IVR – so this is a good place to find competitive advantage!).

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What is a Cognitive IVR?

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A Cognitive IVR has the ability to engage in a natural language based conversation with a customer and take automated action based on the callers needs, thus resulting in a fully automated customer voice interaction. These are examples of course, and the actual prompts will vary based on the call center.

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3 Costly Points of Failure in Omnichannel Customer Experience and How to Fix Them

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In the quest to create choices for customers, organizations have deployed technologies from chatbots, mobile apps and social media to IVR and ACD. For example, a customer’s smart vacuum won’t start, so they initiate a chatbot session on the manufacturer’s website. Visual data can also influence escalation next steps.