Interactive Voice Response (IVR) is largely meant to provide customers easy access to agents and, ultimately, solutions. But when customers need to repeat themselves to a poorly optimized IVR, satisfaction suffers and agents can be set up for failure before they even speak to the customer.
We’ve all been this guy (see pic above)….that’s why the most successful companies make CX their top priority. They know that a poor experience can leave their consumers feeling undervalued and angry. They also know that any resulting damage to the relationship is not easily repaired.
VoiceWatch, Empirix’s proactive contact center performance monitoring solution, is quick to identify current and future issues and their unique causes. Using transactional call flows to navigate a customer’s end-to-end experience via automation, VoiceWatch measures the availability, accuracy, and performance of network components, voice solutions, and back-end database systems. This empowers users to identify and fix problems before they impact customers.
The latest version of VoiceWatch offers a simple, drag-and-drop diagramming tool to rapidly develop ad hoc scripts with the CallMaster GO interface, making VoiceWatch and the Hammer Cloud Platform truly self-service, 24×7. Saved schedules offer more flexibility in monitoring and better control of test execution on holidays and off hours, while enhanced speech recognition capabilities ensure complete and accurate monitoring of today’s dynamic and personalized voice interfaces.
Projections made in early 2016 predicted soft spending in the telecommunications service provider space. Empirix’s innovative solutions and ability to show clear value with an immediate, strong return on investment helped the company overcome these headwinds and achieve its best fourth quarter bookings in its history.
I was able to escape the blizzard-like conditions of New England winter for three sunny days in Las Vegas to attend the Avaya International User Group. Despite the recent restructuring announcement by Avaya, more than 2500 people registered to attend and hear about the latest and greatest that Avaya has to offer. Some highlights of […]
Empirix announced today that TMC, a global, integrated media company, has named VoiceWatch as a recipient of a 2017 INTERNET TELEPHONY Product of the Year Award. These awards recognize the most innovative and highest quality IP communications brought to market, or updated, in the past year.
Empirix, Inc., the recognized leader in contact center assurance and end-to-end network performance visibility, today announced that its VoiceWatch cloud-based monitoring service detected a service disruption in one of the nation’s largest toll-free networks and notified affected Empirix customers within seconds of the disruption occurring.
Like end-to-end testing, monitoring can be grouped into key categories. This will enable you to better focus on issues to get them resolved quickly, with minimal impact to the customer experience.
I’d like to share the top 10 issues Empirix has discovered while working with clients in the past 45 days. Hopefully these insights will help you think about your own communications environment and how it effects the customer experience.
Obviously, the first step in all of this is to provide a positive customer experience. There are many ways to accomplish this. For example, be polite to your customers. Offer them products and services that make sense according to their previous purchase history. Ensure that when they call in with a question or issue, the technology involved to get them the right answer helps instead of hinders the experience. Help your customer get to the right person in a timely manner – try not to leave them hanging on hold or pressing a number via the IVR that takes them to the wrong person.