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Speak Up! Designing a speech-enabled IVR system is inherently complex and requires in-depth preparation. Here are eleven strategies to ensure that you're hearing your customers loud and clear. |
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A Leap of Faith Sometimes implementing a CRM technology means taking a significant risk. |
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IVR Technology Group Announces iCAN Post-Call Surveys IVR Technology Group, a provider of intelligent voice response services and solutions, has introduced a feature-rich, post-call survey application that can be coupled with its IVR hosted services platform to provide call centers with easy access to very robust, automated telephony tools. |
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The Future of Contact Centers The ideal contact center of 2010 will be a profit center, with primary revenue-generation responsibility, with growing revenues coming from Gen. Y consumers who are interacting using technology. |
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Voice Biometrics Builds a Business Case Advances in speech security have made it more feasible and reliable as a call center tool. |
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Avis Installs a Smarter Voice-Response System The rental-car company rolls out a voice-response system with tailored menus that anticipate what the customer will want to do next. |
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LiveVox Announces VoIP Agent@Ready VoIP Agent@Ready is a cloud-based inbound/outbound contact solution and supports telephony infrastructure with "hunt" groups of greater precision. |
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Contact/Call Centers No longer just about back-office servicing, contact and call centers now provide banks with an opportunity to nurture customer relationships. |
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Service on Steroids The contact center performance enhancers of choice these days are training, workflow automation, workforce optimization, and workforce management. These tools are coming together to form one dynamic performance-optimization solution to pump up the service volume. |
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April 2007
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The 2007 Service Elite Here are five companies that realized eye-catching returns on their contact center services and technology investments: Juniper Networks, Web-Support Services... Taylor Corporation, Workforce Optimization... etc. |
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Can Mobile and IVR Avoid a Fight? Customer interaction technologies should support one another, not compete. |
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Scheduling Tool Traction By implementing a new workforce scheduling application, agent hours have been reduced by 20% at Taction, a call center outsourcing company. |
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Call Center Service: Looking For A Handle To Reduce 'on Hold' Institutions like Provident Bank are using call routing and data mining technology to reduce inbound call duration and to improve overall service for customers. |
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Smooth Talkers Speech integration technology gives customers and employees convenient access to back-end data. |
