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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
by Uttam Pegu on February 12, 2010
IVR ( Interactive Voice Response) system has many usage in different industries for different purpose,and IVR can also be used for any kind of “registration process” across industries! One may find it interesting, IVR for complaint management is also part of a larger “registration process”! There are requirement of prior registration for various events like [...]
by Uttam Pegu on February 4, 2010
Caller Ring Back Tone or CRBT has become major revenue earner for both teleom companies as well as value added service providers. Not to mention, music companies. Though, I personally prefer the “good old” ring back tone to the latest music number, but many people have been using it on their cell phone, or even [...]