Intervoice

Voice Portal
The Next Step in Delivering a Unique and Personalized Customer Experience
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Overview
Now more than ever, your customers are demanding
excellence from each contact center interaction—whether
it is a self-service or live-agent experience. In order to stay
competitive, you must take a closer look at how you can
deliver consistent, personalized, first-class service to your
customers each and every time.
By taking advantage of the power of speech and
web-based standards, voice portals can help you meet
or exceed customer expectations, reduce costs, and
improve customer satisfaction.
Intervoice Voice Portal – Enabling Personalized,
Multimodal Communications
Intervoice Voice Portal is a leading technology platform
preferred by many Fortune 100 companies for the
design, development, delivery, and management of
distinctive and innovative speech-enabled, self-service
applications. An award-winning solution, Voice Portal
allows you to accelerate application development and
deployment by combining your existing enterprise
infrastructure with an extensible, standards-based
development and runtime environment. Voice Portal
also supports powerful management, integration, and
metering capabilities for speech-enabled and touch-
tone self-service solutions. These capabilities allow you
to track the application’s performance and adapt the
solution to meet your unique needs:
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• Support multiple communication modes, providing
your customers with the information they need in a
timely manner via the medium most convenient to
them—voice, telephony, Web, fax, email or mobile
device.
• Maximize the lifetime value of your customers by
radically improving the effectiveness of all customer
interactions.
• Take advantage of cross-sell / upsell opportunities.
• Use VXML and Call Control XML (CCXML)
standards to create innovative speech applications.
• Translate customer applications to VoiceXML.
• Use State Chart XML (SCXML) to deliver
applications that allow callers to perform tasks
simultaneously or interrupt tasks with new requests,
and then resume tasks where they left off.
Delivering the Ultimate Self-Service Experience
Organizations like yours chose Voice Portal because
Convergys is the only voice portal vendor that offers
a leading technology platform plus unmatched
services expertise. Our goal is to create a personalized,
satisfying, secure, and consistent caller experience by
delivering a solution that supports anytime, anywhere
access to a full spectrum of automated self-service
capabilities—all while reducing operational costs.
In order to make the most of speech self service,
you have to understand your customers’ needs and
preferences. Ultimately, your customers need to feel
empowered to lead their self-service interactions in
the way they want them—personalized, convenient,
and consistent. You must be able to quickly determine
the nature of the customer’s call and route the call
appropriately within the system. With Voice Portal, Key Benefits
common requests can be easily automated in self-
service mode to provide fast and easy answers, while Contact Center Managers: For the first time, your
more complex issues or high-value customers can customers can enjoy the flexibility of choosing the
quickly be routed to a live agent. most convenient channel and media (for example,
speech, text, video, touch-tone) for each step in a
Partnering With You to Take Customer Service to
customer service interaction. With more options for
the Next Level
how they conduct a self-service session, callers are
Convergys is helping one of the largest cable providers
less frustrated, get more done, and are more likely
achieve its business goals. The company is tapping into
to end the interaction with a positive impression.
the power of speech technology on our Voice Portal
platform to deliver world-class customer service,
Voice Portal enables you to:
increase automation, extend the company’s brand, and
reduce costs.
• Decrease inbound call center traffic through
With the deployment of speech applications, customers proactive outbound notification of customers
can now report signal loss or blackouts, purchase via phone, text message, or email.
movies, access billing information, and upgrade
• Closely monitor application usage and caller
or downgrade their program package. In addition,
behavior to quickly identify areas for application
field service personnel can set up outbound dialing
improvement and enhancement.
to remind customers of appointments, reschedule
appointments, or check the status of work orders. • Allow callers to securely and comfortably do
more on their own, decreasing “opt out” to live
While this company is focused on promoting and agent service.
extending its brand and improving the customer
experience, it is also achieving bottom-line savings of • Improve customer service and satisfaction by
over $18 million per year by using the Voice Portal. using adaptive technologies to deliver
responsive, personalized, and conversational
Guaranteed Success interaction.
After carefully evaluating many vendors, Litton Loan
Servicing selected the Voice Portal platform for its
ability to integrate speech for increased scalability and
call efficiency, drive higher self-service automation,
reduce live agent interactions, and deliver a consistent,
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As part of this project, Convergys guaranteed Litton’s
results and focused on developing a self-service
experience that met or exceeded the company’s SATISFIED CUSTOMERS
business metrics. Just 60 days after the completion of
the project, Voice Portal proved its value by successfully

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Key Benefits
IT Managers: The open standards-based design
of Voice Portal allows you to deploy the
technology within your organization’s existing
environment and use your existing development
resources and skill sets.
Additional benefits include:
• Voice Portal can be deployed on a single server
or in a distributed configuration.
• Voice Portal’s server-side architecture lets you
quickly and consistently roll out new software
upgrades in a single event.
• You can easily scale applications to keep pace
with business growth.
• Web-based management and reporting
tools allow you to monitor and troubleshoot
application issues before they impact customer
interactions.
• Your deployment is simplified through reuse
of existing infrastructure and easier
integration with databases, Web Services, and
legacy systems.
• Resource utilization is improved by eliminating
development silos, accessing data and rules
across a unified application infrastructure,
and strong Service-Oriented Architecture
(SOA) support.
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automating 62.6 percent of valid calls without a transfer
to an agent, except in cases involving specific call routing
requirements. This level of automation exceeded the
37 percent automation benchmark of Litton’s previous
IVR solution.
Litton was able to personalize its standard self-service
offering, giving customers a more meaningful interaction;
reduce costs through more intelligent routing; and increase
customer satisfaction by reducing hold times by 31 percent.
These achievements met or exceeded the company’s
predetermined goals.
Comprehensive Standards Support
Convergys uses World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)
and Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) standards
more thoroughly than any other voice portal vendor.
These standards include VXML, CCXML, Web Services
and SCXML, which facilitates asynchronous and parallel
handling of customer interactions. Convergys’ extensive
support for standards simplifies integration with other
customer service solutions, existing business logic, back-
end applications, and data repositories.
Application Enrichment Services
Voice Portal offers a robust set of application enrichment
services, enabling you to deliver a more compelling self-
service experience that reduces operational costs while
improving caller satisfaction. The platform’s flexible and
natural speech capabilities enable your contact center to
conduct more responsive and productive conversations
with each caller. You can use these adaptive capabilities to
achieve multiple business objectives:
• Enable callers to choose the communication method that
best accommodates their needs.
• Allow callers to securely and comfortably do more on
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advantage of upsell and cross-sell opportunities based on
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Intervoice Voice Portal is built on a solid foundation of multichannel user interactions, powerful services
orchestration, robust integration services, a full suite of development tools, and comprehensive management and
reporting capabilities.

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management and reporting tools to meet both business Development Suite

and IT objectives. Real-time reporting allows you to
continuously monitor your self-service solution, thus
lowering your total cost of ownership (TCO), and
making it easy to integrate system wide enhancements:
• Dramatically reduce solution management overhead
by using real-time, on-demand reporting.
• Easily track key performance metrics and evaluate
application efficiency.
• Effortlessly make system modifications and
improvements based on usage data and caller
experience.
• Voice Portal includes a powerful suite of application
development tools that enable you to take advantage
of your existing infrastructures, service oriented
architecture (SOA), and business logic to create
dynamic, personalized applications. Developers can
easily create, modify, and test voice and touch-tone
applications to produce optimum business results:
• Significantly reduce development efforts through
code reuse and extensions.
• Eliminate the need for proprietary skill sets.
• Simplify management of storage and retrieval of
self-service application media (for example, audio
prompts) for use across multiple applications.

Application Enrichment Services

Provides advanced speech recognition and text-to-speech capabilities that allow callers to hear
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Key Benefits
Development Managers: Voice Portal’s
portfolio of developer tools meets your
organization’s needs across solution
lifecycle, lowering IT cost and effort by:
• Reducing development effort duplication
through code reuse and extension
• Eliminating need for proprietary skill sets
• Simplifying reuse of existing business
logic and integration with other customer
service solutions, back-end applications,
and data repositories
• Expediting development of sophisticated
applications that require intelligent call
routing and CTI
• Ensuring consistency of the caller
experience across channels
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Quicker Deployment
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Our new Interaction Composer development tool features
an open standards-based, drag-and-drop graphical user
interface (GUI). This tool serves as the foundation for
development of multimodal services and back-office
integration.
Core Infrastructure Components
The Voice Portal core infrastructure components provide
foundational services for creating dynamic self-service
applications, improving the customer experience, and
futureproofing the solution:
• Simplify reuse of existing business logic and integration
with other customer service solutions, back-end
applications, and data repositories.
• Ease development of sophisticated applications that
require intelligent call routing and computer telephony
integration (CTI).
• Ensure consistency of the caller experience across
channels.
Customer-Focused Solution Delivery
Voice and multimodal applications are rarely, if ever,
deployed “out of the box.” You want intelligent automation
solutions to reflect your brand and address your callers’
unique needs and service requirements. In order to achieve
maximum ROI, it is critical that these solutions be designed
and customized with creativity and care.
Therefore, when you evaluate voice technology, you must
also consider the technology’s ability to bridge the gap
from platform purchase to effective voice and multimodal
applications, and provide measurable ROI. Convergys
professional services group will collaborate one on one with
you to achieve solution success and exceed your business
objectives by providing a complete, integrated suite of
solution services:
• Deep knowledge of caller needs and experiences
• Continual focus on your business objectives
• Process excellence and rigor throughout the
development process
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As voice technology continues to grow, Convergys is • Unparalleled global services support –

an established leader in developing innovative ways to Convergys Professional Services offers self-service
increase automation and seamlessly integrate customer application design, development, and management
data into multimodal applications. With Voice Portal, expertise and experience that is unsurpassed in the
callers find a unified experience across self-service and industry. This team’s time-tested, proven
methodology has been refined in collaboration with
live agent transactions, voice, Web, and mobile devices,
more than 5,000 clients. No other services partner
while you enjoy new ways to increase revenue and
matches Professional Services’ thought leadership
realize greater customer satisfaction than ever before.
and deep technical knowledge of how to deliver a
personalized, satisfying, and consistent self-service
The Convergys Advantage
experience across all channels.
• Visionary self-service applications – Convergys
• Focus and independence – Convergys holds a
provides industry-leading speech solutions and
unique position in the industry. Our products and
was first to market in delivering a platform for
services are more complete than those of smaller
multimodal self-service applications. Voice Portal
niche players and more focused than those of larger
is the only voice portal platform that enables
multi-industry players. Over time, we have
simultaneous voice and visual data input and
maintained our focus on reducing the need for live
delivery on a telephone or mobile device in a single
agent assistance by increasing and improving
interaction, and the only platform that facilitates
automation. Unlike other voice portal products,
multitasking, interruptions, and resuming of user
Voice Portal is vendor-neutral when integrating with
tasks.
hardware for caller interfaces, CTI, automatic speech
• Innovative standards implementation – recognition (ASR), private branch exchange (PBX)
Convergys uses Internet standards, including VXML, and switches, making Voice Portal easier to deploy
CCXML, Web Services, and SCXML, more within your existing customer service infrastructure.
thoroughly than any other voice portal vendor. Our
extensive support for Internet standards simplifies
integration with other customer service solutions,
existing business logic, back-end applications, and
data repositories.

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About Convergys

Convergys Corporation (NYSE: CVG) is a global leader

in relationship management. We provide solutions that
drive more value from the relationships our clients have
with their customers and employees. Convergys turns
these everyday interactions into a source of profit and
strategic advantage for our clients. For more information,
visit www.convergys.com.

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unified multimodal experience your customers’
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standards makes it the logical choice to “future proof” Regional Headquarters
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