On-demand service platforms leverage communications technology to reach a growing market of consumers. We explore the tools they use to keep up with rising customer demands.
2021-04-08
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Reaching out to a large customer base doesn't have to be overwhelming. Here are four ways you can launch more effective outbound call campaigns.
2021-04-082305
New article about Voximplant by Deborah Balshem, Mergermarket
2021-04-023313
Interactive voice response (IVR) systems are meant to make customer calls more efficient—but sometimes they get in the way.
2021-03-026901
Voicebots can lift the load off human operators for any business. In these six sectors, they are a must if you want to trump your competition.
2021-03-017654
Any contact center manager considering a new cloud communications solution needs to do their “due diligence” before choosing a provider, including those in small to medium enterprises. The stakes are high for SMEs because your needs are unique and there are significant differences in the available providers. Your decision not only affects your organization’s budget, but also its business processes, customer experiences, and agent work environment.
2021-01-1512007
Advanced IP messaging apps include a range of use cases – from standard user-to-user chatting to AI-powered chatbots. In this article, we cover the benefits that IP messaging brings to the e-commerce industry.
2020-12-3014313
For many consumers, personalized customer service is key to good customer experiences (CX). According to a 2020 survey by Gladly, close to two-thirds of respondents said that “lack of personalization makes [them] feel like a ticket number.” Businesses wishing to meet and exceed customer expectations need to make personalized service a top priority. But personalization goes beyond making movie recommendations or using a customer’s name in an email subject line. When it comes to personalized service, it’s paramount that you deliver relevant, valuable, and speedy support to promote positive customer experiences. In this article, we’ll break down what personalized service means, why it’s so important to CX, and how you can deliver personalization service to your customers.
2020-12-2215362
A couple weeks ago, Amazon Web Services (AWS) experienced an outage in its US-EAST-1 region. As so many services rely on AWS, this outage had a broader impact, causing outages and various issues with Amazon’s own Ring services, online retailers, and even the New York City MTA. In addition, a couple major Communications Platform as a Service (CPaaS) providers also reported issues (Voximplant was not impacted), potentially impacting the communications of many of their customers. With this in mind, now is a good time to look at how CPaaS offers leverage public cloud infrastructure and review the factors involved in providing reliable, high quality communications services. In this post we will review the public cloud infrastructure used by several major CPaaS vendors and discuss the implications of their choices.
2020-12-2315974
In our fast-paced, digitally focused world, customers want personalized service at lightning speed. A Hubspot survey of 1,000 customers found that 90% of people expect a response from a live customer service agent in ten minutes or less. Because expectations are so high, the pressure is on for customer service agents to consistently provide quick, high-quality customer experiences. Offering an elevated level of service with such a fast turnaround is next to impossible with manual support alone. And even if you have some digital tools in your tech stack, traditional contact center technology can fall short when it comes to efficiency. That’s why choosing no-fuss technology that automates your contact center’s routine operations is essential for making tasks more manageable for your agents.
2020-12-1815639
Striving to offer the best service possible, contact centers are usually very quick to adopt new technologies and try out innovative solutions. Successful implementation of speech technologies can create a great competitive advantage for a company.
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If you’re involved in evaluating cloud contact center services, you’ve likely recognized two distinct categories and a big difference in the amount of technical expertise required to implement them. You’re attracted to the ease of use offered by contact center as service (CCaaS) offerings, but their fixed functionality doesn’t fit your business needs. In contrast, a cloud contact center built on a communications platform as a service (CPaaS) offering provides unlimited flexibility, but requires expensive software development resources to build a complete solution.
2020-12-1716580
VoIP providers minimize latency by supporting point-to-point SIP calls, operating a global POP network and maintaining modern codecs. Dip into our guide and choose your VoIP provider wisely.
2020-12-0416375
When a user connected to an enterprise PBX makes a VoIP phone call to a customer’s landline or mobile phone, the communications protocol has to be converted. In this article, we explain how gateways and SIP trunks enable interoperability between a PBX and the PSTN.
2020-11-1121092
Computer telephony integration (CTI) connectors deliver increased contact center efficiency and better customer experiences, but their cost and complexity has limited adoption to large enterprises.
2020-10-2721235
Discover which contact center technology features help you tackle the challenges of ecommerce customer experience with ease.
2020-11-1120633
You will need а microphone and a PC or mobile device for a quick start. This how-to will guide you through a selection of hardware and software as well as making the right recordings.
2020-11-0925907
Recently, we published a blog post describing why WebSockets are great for real-time services. In this article, we describe the process of establishing, maintaining and closing the WebSockets connection.
2020-11-0919815
A REST API is a simple, standardized method of communication between web clients and servers. The main building blocks of the REST API are the request and the response. Learn about the REST API and how to issue requests and receive response data.
2020-11-2719334
Voximplant serverless architecture provides a simpler alternative to deploying traditional VoIP servers in a datacenter. Voximplant APIs offer developers scale and on-demand communications services. Learn how easily you can create VoIP services in the form of Voximplant-based apps.
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