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What Is Interactive Voice Response (IVR) In A Call Center?

OctopusTech

One thing that has remained constant for a long time is that users still prefer to solve their queries on a phone call rather than choosing any other medium and that’s where Interactive Voice Response comes in. Not sure if an IVR system is right for your business? What Is An Interactive Voice Response (IVR)?

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Guest Blog: Three Surprising Ways You Can Improve the Customer Experience with Cloud IVR

ShepHyken

This week we feature an article by Nogol Tardugno who tells us how to get our contact center interactive voice response (IVR) to deliver the best customer experience. Any reports of the death of interactive voice response (IVR) as a customer service channel have been greatly exaggerated.

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Interactive Voice Response – What it is, What it does, Where it’s going

NICE inContact

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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Self-Service: A Complete Guide for the Modern Call Center

Fonolo

That’s where self-service comes in. Customer self-service, or CSS, refers to any type of electronic or automated support that allows customers to find answers or resolve problems without having to connect with a customer service agent. Movements from the human realm to the self-serve realm is harder.

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Reporting on Bots – Why It’s as Bad as IVRs Ever Were

Upstream Works

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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IVAs: Self-Service Solutions that Work

DMG Consulting

IVAs: Self-Service Solutions that Work. Customers prefer the expediency of self-service, but they will not sacrifice a good experience for convenience. It’s Time to Transition from IVR to IVA. Interactive voice response systems were effective for what they were intended to do in the past.

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How to Build Better Self-Service for Your Customers

ConvergeOne

“Companies are trying to hire people that either don’t want to join the workforce, or don’t want that particular job,” says Kathy Sobus, ConvergeOne’s senior director of collaboration go-to-market strategy. But customers still need service.” But more than half of people say self-serve tools are often difficult to use.