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IVR Applications

IVR at the Museum

by jsaksa on August 29, 2010

I recently spent some vacation time in Washington D.C. which naturally involved squeezing in as much of the Smithsonian as possible in a short period of time. While I was there, reading about the different exhibits, one thing I saw at quite a few locations really jumped out at me: cell phone audio tours. Quite [...]

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IVR for Call-In-Sick management

by Uttam Pegu on August 12, 2010

What is Call – In – Sick ? Call In Sick is some urgent absent notification by employees about their intended absence in office normally before start of office or at the beginning of it. Employees normally call to their superiors or leave a message with heir colleague. This is common practice to “call in [...]

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IVR for Ticket Booking

by Uttam Pegu on August 3, 2010

Recently, I tried to book air line ticket using IVR from one of the leading private air line operators in India. The ticket booking process was not on IVR, only the payment part using credit card was on IVR actually. The process went like this: 1. I called up the IVR number. It gave me [...]

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Few widely used IVR system in India

by Uttam Pegu on July 6, 2010

The usage of IVR is growing in India. IVR has been used for long time in India like any other country in the world. These IVR systems were majorly used as train status information, flight status information and other few complaint lodging/booking system. And at that time ( before 1997), India had very low telecom [...]

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IVR ‘ShortCode’ and Revenue Sharing

by Uttam Pegu on July 2, 2010

What is IVR short code ? IVR (Interactive Voice Response) short code can be defined as special telephone number which has ‘less’ digits in it than traditional full length telephone number. This kind of special ‘short code’ are mainly used for special purposes like customer care for telephone/mobile subscribers, VAS ( Value Added Service) access [...]

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IVR in Payment Gateways

by Uttam Pegu on May 3, 2010

What is Payment gateway ? Payment Gateway is an application service provider which can authorise payments for any purchase made by a person using either credit card, internet banking in a website. It is just like POS ( Point of Sale) for either website or any other monetary transaction in a secured way. Main function [...]

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IVR for scheduling appointments

by Uttam Pegu on March 22, 2010

One of the very important and widely used IVR application is scheduling of tasks or appointments. In a typical IVR assisted scheduling application uses both inbound and outbound IVR. Normally, inbound IVR is used to register a new appointment while outbound IVR is used for remainder or rescheduling of the appointment if any. Hospitals are [...]

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IVR for Value Added Call Transfer

by Uttam Pegu on February 25, 2010

IVR (Interactive Voice Response) system can do many things and one of the most common task it performs is “Call Transfer”. Both inbound and outbound IVR may transfer the active call to some other telephone number or human agent once the IVR user chooses. Though in a call center environment, human agent may get information [...]

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