SmartAction

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

In today’s fast-paced business landscape, customer self-service has become a pivotal aspect of delivering exceptional customer experiences. As we look towards 2024, the world of customer self-service is at a crossroads, with new challenges and opportunities on the horizon. Key Trends in Customer Self-Service 1.

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Fonolo

OCTOBER 5, 2023

FREE WEBINAR: Is Your Chatbot Really Just an IVR? You wouldn’t be the first customer service professional to ask themselves if a chatbot is really any different than an IVR. If your chatbot seems like an IVR, are you doing something wrong? Your Introduction to Call Center Automation What is an IVR? Join us Oct.

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Upstream Works

MARCH 3, 2023

To understand this issue, it’s helpful to look back at the history of Interactive Voice Response (IVR) systems. IVRs were generic systems that ran customized business applications – applications that were designed to meet a specific self-service need for that business.

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Enghouse Interactive

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

It’s Not an Option – It’s Expected (Blog Series). Register for our upcoming webinar “When, How and Why Customers Self-Help” with Steve Morrell, Managing Director and Principal Analyst of Contact Babel and John Cray, Vice President – Product Management, Enghouse Interactive. Digital literacy is the new normal.

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JustCall

APRIL 3, 2023

A standard IVR is frustrating for about 46% of the callers , who say that the unending, pre-recorded IVRs are a terrible experience. Thankfully, with conversational AI-based IVRs, you can turn this metric around for your customers. There is more to conversational AI IVR than just that – which is what this blog is about.

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Call Experts

APRIL 14, 2023

IVR systems are designed to streamline communication and customer service for businesses through automation and simplifying interactions with callers. McKinsey explains that at one North American call center alone, over 10 million customer requests are handled by IVR technology annually. How Do IVR Systems Work?

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JustCall

DECEMBER 21, 2022

One of the most useful systems to have at a call center is the IVR number. In this blog, we will discuss what an IVR number is, common IVR features and benefits, and how it helps in a call center. What is an IVR Number? Callers can respond through voice or their phone keyboard. How Does an IVR Number Work?

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ConvergeOne

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

In my last blog post , I advocated for beginning your customer experience modernization journey by consulting with IT. My next piece of advice centers around what the end goal of your modernization efforts should be: allowing your customers more access to self-service—and I mean good self-service. The added bonus?

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NICE inContact

NOVEMBER 20, 2017

Interactive voice response (IVR) has been a staple of customer service for many years. Together with its “big brother”, the voice portal, IVRs have been part of contact center solutions for decades, and there is no reason to believe that they will go away any time soon. Offload Routine Interactions.

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NobelBiz

APRIL 2, 2024

Feature Set Offer a comprehensive suite of advanced features, including omnichannel routing, advanced IVR systems, workforce management tools, CRM integration, reporting, and analytics capabilities. Focus on essential functionalities such as call routing, basic IVR systems, and basic reporting capabilities. RELATED ARTICLE What is IVR?

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SmartAction

OCTOBER 25, 2023

Continuous Learning : Conversational AI is not a static tool; it actively learns and improves with every interaction, aided by a dedicated support team working behind the scenes. It can be used to identify additional intents or requests from customers and build a better IVR system.

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Enghouse Interactive

AUGUST 26, 2020

It’s Not an Option – It’s Expected (Blog Series). Register for our upcoming w ebinar “How and Why Customers Use Self-Service” with Steve Morrell, Managing Director and Principal Analyst of ContactBabel . Blog #1 Into the Vortex “Cross Channel is the New Omni-Channel”. What Do Customers Need?

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West

NOVEMBER 9, 2017

Interactive Voice Response (IVR) is a frustrating contradiction. Customers love self-service, yet common IVR complaints lead many customers to groan as soon as they hear a machine on the other line. You know the value of your IVR. So how do you get customers more engaged with self-service?

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Babelforce

JULY 15, 2021

Self-service support seems too good to be true. And, with the right tools, it’s easy to offer phone-based self-service support too. And, with the right tools, it’s easy to offer phone-based self-service support too. Quick recap: what is self-service? It reduces customer service costs.

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JustCall

DECEMBER 21, 2022

It is now time for customer support agents to also leverage the power of automation through IVR in banking. In this blog, we discuss what does IVR stand for in banking and what are some different use cases of IVR in banking sector. What is IVR in Banking Sector? Specific Use Cases of IVR in the Banking Sector.

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VocalCom

OCTOBER 24, 2017

At one time, self-service meant forcing customers to perform tasks on their own without the information and support they needed. Today, savvy companies offer self-service as a means of empowering customers to help themselves with confidence and minimal effort. Update your IVR menus. Ask for customer feedback.

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NobelBiz

MARCH 26, 2024

It’s the art of utilizing technology to deliver personalized and efficient customer service without losing the human touch that customers value. Customer Experience Automation can encompass a range of technologies such as AI and Machine Learning, Chatbots and IVR Systems, Data Analytics and Insights.

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Cisco - Contact Center

DECEMBER 10, 2019

The first ask from customers is to deliver fast and accurate responses using the channel of their choice and this translates into great customer experience ( Reference ). 73% want the ability to solve product/service issues on their own. 83% use self-service options when available. Enhanced Self-Service Solutions.

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VocalCom

DECEMBER 11, 2017

While self-service is key to helping customers find information quickly, IVR is an essential tool for making it happen. Here are five key benefits of IVR that make it so vital to creating seamless self-service experiences. IVR systems provide many rich features that enhance the self-service experience.

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Aspect

OCTOBER 17, 2017

One of the episodes from season 2, titled Unplugged, originally aired in 2010 but its plot is still extremely relevant when it comes to consumer engagement and interactive voice response (IVR). Her interaction with the IVR goes like this: Orlando. Representative. Representative! Representative!

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Fonolo

OCTOBER 23, 2018

Even so, gone are the days when talking to ‘a real person’ is the customer’s preference: Today, 70% of customers expect self-service options and most brands are taking note. Despite the clear demand for these services, 55% of consumers find self-service portals difficult to use. Dive Into Your Analytics.

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SmartAction

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

One way that IVA “levels up” from the typical IVR is that an IVA will utilize natural language understanding, or NLU. Discover why we’re the top-rated Virtual Customer Assistant solution on Gartner Peer Insights and have been named “The Leader in AI-enhanced Self-Service,” by Frost & Sullivan. GET IN TOUCH.

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Avaya

APRIL 1, 2019

But first they must bypass the dreaded Pit of Misery, also known as the Interactive Voice Response (IVR) system. Cue robot voice: “ Hello, thank you for calling EOL Corp. All customer interactions are important even those driven by your Mr. Roboto interactive voice response system.

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West

AUGUST 30, 2018

Fortunately when someone calls your contact center, there are a few IVR authentication best practices that can help. When someone calls your IVR — also known as an interactive voice response system — you probably hope they’ll finish the interaction using self-service.

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ShepHyken

AUGUST 31, 2018

Forget IVRs and long wait times. Self-service. You will eventually be able to resolve most mundane and simplest issues yourself thanks to: automated processes and responses, better knowledge and self-help recommendations, extra data from devices with sensors in your home (Internet of Things).

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West

JULY 31, 2018

Self-service is one of the best ways to cut call center costs and speed up over-the-phone interactions with customers. And an IVR is one of the most well-known self-service tools out there. So if you want the best deal, it’s natural to wonder whether that IVR cost is really worth the price.

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SmartAction

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

We’re not talking about the time-consuming interactive voice response (IVR) of the past that provided a less-than-optimal customer experience. The AI-powered voice assistants of today offer a seamless experience, reaching a virtual assistant, in seconds, that can answer customer intentions with just a few words.

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Aspect

AUGUST 30, 2018

Zwar gibt es auch Vorbehalte, aber die möglichen Chancen sind besonders im Bereich des Kundenservice greifbar: Im Contact Center sorgt KI dafür, dass Kunden über Self-Service Kanäle kommunizieren können. Self-Service Technologien machen das möglich und vermeiden darüber hinaus lange Wartezeiten.

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Aspect

JUNE 20, 2018

The evolution of customer self-service. Recent advancements in artificial intelligence (AI) and cloud technology are now being adopted by businesses and service-based organisations to create an automated consumer experience that is driving the evolution of customer self-service.

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Aspect

MARCH 12, 2018

Given the growing customer preference for solving problems on their own, you’d expect consumers to like interactive voice response, or IVR — the first generation of self-service technology. Because IVRs suck, well at least the way they’re implemented sucks. They don’t.

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Aspect

DECEMBER 20, 2017

Thanks to continual innovations, self-service has moved beyond press 1 call routing to seamless interactions like Visual IVR, Facebook Messenger, automated chatbots and disposable web apps. Or, in a Bizarro World in which he actually used his phone for an actual call and reached out to the registrar’s office IVR.

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pindrop

AUGUST 22, 2021

Getting down to business” through the IVR. For these scenarios, the interactive voice response (IVR) can be a powerful tool to avoid the delays that come with human-to-human interaction, and add convenience by using voice and button prompts to help customers make their selections, and potentially complete their desired action entirely.

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Aspect

MAY 7, 2018

If you have been following Aspect for a while, it is no secret to you that we believe in customer self-service as an important pillar of any customer experience (CX) strategy today. Accordingly, self-service capabilities are also a cornerstone of Aspect Via. Secure IVR. Context Continuity from Web to Voice.

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Enghouse Interactive

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

Trends and Realities of Successful Organizations (Blog Series). Contact centers, using AI and UCaaS, drive better customer service perceptions, agent performance and improve overall outcomes . Blog #3 of 4: Customer-facing agents. AI-Enabled Self Service (34.8% Back office support. Subject matter experts.

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Freshcaller

OCTOBER 15, 2018

IVR or Interactive Voice Response is a system that reads out a menu or list of options during a phone call, and depending on the input (keypress made by the caller) received, redirects the call to the next level of menu options or to the right person. IVR has been a part of most big business phone systems since the 80s.

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NobelBiz

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Advanced Functionality: VoIP provides features like Interactive Voice Response (IVR). IVR allows customers to handle routine tasks themselves, freeing up call center agents to address more complex inquiries. RELATED ARTICLE What is IVR? Call centers can easily scale up or down based on call volume.

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Outsource Consultants

JANUARY 11, 2018

In a recent article , Shelby Faris takes in in-depth look at Interactive Voice Response (IVR) technology. She acknowledges that though IVR is a vital component of many companies’ customer service, it’s not without its faults. 4 Ways Companies Benefit from Using IVR Services.

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