IVR Benefits
Increase
customer satisfaction by offering personalized call treatment.
Decrease
call times.
Improve
efficiency and productivity.
Automated
speech recognition.
Free
up resources through automation.
Increase first contact resolution by routing to the
appropriate agent.
Reduce
operational costs.
Track
and report the journey of every call.
Gain
Automated Speech Recognition
Take your IVR to the next level with Automated Speech Recognition (ASR). ASR lets you remove the constraints of a standard touch-tone IVR application to enhance the customer experience. Customers are able to speak their needs using natural language. ComputerTalk also offers voice biometrics to authenticate users through their voice.
IVR and Contact Center Continuity
IVR applications are not always able to answer all inquiries. Sometimes customers have complex or non-routine issues and need to be transferred to a contact center agent. ComputerTalk's IVR and ice Contact Center are both built using the iceWorkflow Designer tool to provide a seamless and continuous flow of information between IVR and contact center.
Outbound IVR
Don’t wait for your customers to call you. Proactively reach out to them using outbound IVR applications. Deliver automated outbound communication that simply plays a message and disconnects or plays IVR prompts where prospects can interact with menus
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Sample Applications
The key to a successful IVR application is design. A well-designed IVR means a frustration-free experience for customers. Working with one of our IVR specialists, you can rest assured that your applications will send customers to the right place, without needless transfers.
We have built thousands of IVR applications for our clients. Below is a list of sample IVR applications. For a more comprehensive list, contact an IVR expert here.
- Appointment Scheduler
- Auto Attendant
- Bill Payment
- Billing and Account Inquiry
- Call Routing
- Check Ordering
- Claim Filing and Processing
- Credit Card Activation
- FAQs
- Hear Shift Schedules
- Listen to Human Resources Listings
- Policy Renewal or Coverage Changes
- Traffic Enforcement - Pay Tickets by Phone
Auto Attendant
ComputerTalk’s auto attendant capabilities can be a standalone application or part of the whole contact center system. Callers no longer need to remember extension numbers; they just need to speak the name of the person or department they wish to contact.
Advantage
When your IVR applications are built on the same technology as your contact center, you avoid additional support and integration costs. You are able to view comprehensive reports relevant to your IVR and contact center to provide you with the information you need to make informed decisions. ComputerTalk's IVR is easy to update to accommodate your changing business needs.
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ComputerTalk's #bigUCupdate: 6 Recent Contact Center Trends That Are Here to Stay
As part of the Summit, ComputerTalk's Chief of Staff, Blair Ferguson, spoke with UC Today Host, Rob Scott, to provide a #bigUCupdate. They discussed recent trends in the market, what we're expecting in 2022, and what's coming next at ComputerTalk. You can check out the video by registering or read on for some of the current and upcoming trends that you should be watching out for this year:
- Remote work – Since the COVID-19 pandemic began, there has been a significant uptake in remote work. Having offered ice Contact Center as a cloud solution since 1993, ComputerTalk was able to easily provide our cloud customers the option to work from home, even stepping up to enable a children's hospital foundation to operate their first-ever remote telethon. In 2022, working from home is expected to remain popular as organizations continue to realize the benefits of remote work. For organizations that were not already using cloud solutions, this widespread trend brought about the next trend on the list…
- Security concerns and moving to the cloud – Organizations with on-premises contact center infrastructure were not able to quickly and easily transition to remote work like cloud-based organizations could. This highlighted the importance of moving to a cloud solution. Naturally, these organizations also wanted to be confident that a new solution would be just as secure as their existing on-premises infrastructure. Fortunately, ComputerTalk's SOC 2 Type 2 and PCI compliant cloud contact center has allowed us to provide a high level of confidence in our secure solution that let users work from anywhere.
- Teams adoption – The COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in a rise in the adoption of Microsoft Teams. Teams now has more than 450 million monthly active users. As organizations adopt Teams, they become interested in periphery apps that can be connected, such as their contact center. This has been a huge growth opportunity for ComputerTalk's Teams native ice Contact Center. With ice, the experience is built on top of Graph APIs within Teams, allowing agents to operate directly within the Teams interface. This is different from many other contact centers, which are connected by webhooks but still require agents to navigate between screens. Of course, this close connection has caused some customers to ask what happens if Teams goes down. Fortunately, ice is designed to seamlessly failover to PSTN if a Teams outage is detected, meaning that we can provide full service with or without Teams running in the background.
- Omnichannel capabilities and multi-contact handling – In recent years, ComputerTalk has seen that voice just isn't enough anymore. People contacting customer service want to connect through channels such as IM, web chat, social media, email, SMS, and video. This desire for digital channels isn't going anywhere. ice Contact Center can handle all of these channels. Furthermore, the integration capabilities we've designed leveraging Teams allow agents to handle all text-based interactions within Teams. Consequently, there is an increase in clients interested in multi-contact handling, especially with a new generation of knowledge workers, who are comfortable handling 2-4 text-based interactions simultaneously.
- Unified endpoint – ComputerTalk is excited to be introducing a unified endpoint to our offering. It will be built on top of Azure Communications Services and is expected to be released later this year. The unified endpoint will give ComputerTalk greater flexibility and control over how messages appear to agents and end-users with or without the Teams integration, meaning more options for customers. It will also enable new contact center features for Teams users, such as screen share. These advantages for Teams users will be especially important given the expected continued rise in Teams adoption.
- AI and call transcription – Artificial intelligence (AI) and call transcription have become important in customer care and service. Many organizations are interested in how it can be applied to their businesses. ComputerTalk has provided integration to third-party speech analytics for quite some time but is now working on building better speech analytics directly into our product. This will allow us to provide more in-depth analysis based on transcriptions and display the information within the supervisor suite. These AI capabilities will enable contextual search, sentiment analysis, and automatic contact evaluations, ultimately allowing a more personalized customer journey and proactive service.
We expect that it will be a very exciting year at ComputerTalk. Keep an eye on our blog for updates or sign up for our newsletter!