Wowdesk Blog

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

Key Evolution Milestones: Phone-Based Support (1900s-1990s) Studies show that before automation, businesses struggled with high wait times and inefficiency. Email & Ticketing Systems (2000s) Research by McKinsey found that businesses using email-based support saw a 20% improvement in response time.

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Global Response

MARCH 24, 2025

They are irritated by long wait times, situations in which they have to repeat themselves, and any difficulty they face in reaching customer support. A KMS reduces the time agents spend searching for information to address customers’ questions, resulting in shorter handle times.

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Inbenta

JULY 3, 2020

It creates a warm welcome to potential customers without delays and waiting times. WhatsApp Business offers an API (Application Programming Interface). An API is a set of programming standards that allows other developers to create products associated with a specific service. WhatsApp Business chatbots.

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ProProfs Blog

JUNE 26, 2020

Application Program Interface (API). Application Programming Interface (API) is a combination of various protocols, tools, and codes. The function of the API enables apps to communicate with each other. Key Performance Indicators (KPI) measure and monitor metrics like average wait time, customer churn, CSAT score, and more.

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Whitepages Pro

AUGUST 4, 2016

Whitepages Pro APIs help businesses improve their communications using data. When layering Whitepages Pro data APIs with complimentary communication APIs, you can quickly build powerful applications that optimize businesses processes with little code. To get a free API trial key for Phone Reputation, visit our developer center.

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Whitepages Pro

APRIL 16, 2019

In March, we announced Transaction Risk API , our latest solution to fight payment fraud and improve the efficiency of authorizations, built specifically for models. Our goal with Transaction Risk API was to provide a powerful tool to help in this space. One of the biggest factors is time. Today, let’s talk about the how.

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AWS Machine Learning

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

By implementing a modern natural language processing (NLP) model, the response process has been shaped much more efficiently, and waiting time for clients has been reduced tremendously. The function then relays the classification back to CRM through the API Gateway public endpoint.

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AWS Machine Learning

AUGUST 30, 2022

Behind the scenes, Amazon Personalize examines this data, identifies what is meaningful, selects the right algorithms, trains and optimizes a personalization model that is customized for your data, and provides recommendations via an API endpoint. Choose the node, and you should see the configuration API parameters on the right.

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AWS Machine Learning

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Internal question and answer forums can help users get highly specific answers but also require longer wait times. In the case of company-specific internal FAQs, long wait times result in lower employee productivity. Amazon API Gateway 1M REST API Calls 3.5 Amazon Sagemaker Real-time inference with ml.g4dn.2xlarge

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UJET

OCTOBER 22, 2020

As a result, the company reduced their in-app voice wait times by 50%. Their average public switched telephone network (PSTN) caller wait time dropped to less than one minute, and their PSTN call abandonment dropped 8%. ByNext Uses Real-Time Data + Customer History to Solve Issues Faster.

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Inbenta

AUGUST 17, 2021

Twilio Voice API gives developers control over their calls, with APIs built for a wide variety of uses from basic phone-to-phone calling, app-to-phone calling, Interactive Voice Response (IVR), conference calling, SIP interfacing, call recording, transcription, call tracking, and more. Let’s take a closer look at them: Twilio Voice.

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AWS Machine Learning

MARCH 1, 2024

Self-service bots integrated with your call center can help you achieve decreased wait times, intelligent routing, decreased time to resolution through self-service functions or data collection, and improved net promoter scores (NPS). Make sure you’re using the right role that has access to invoke the Transcribe APIs.

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AWS Machine Learning

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Sharing in-house resources with other internal teams, the Ranking team machine learning (ML) scientists often encountered long wait times to access resources for model training and experimentation – challenging their ability to rapidly experiment and innovate.

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aircall

DECEMBER 1, 2022

Where once the expectation was limited availability, phone-based service with long wait times, it is now a multi-channel, always-on, fast-response support machine. WhatsApp’s recent partnership with Salesforce made their Cloud API available to all Salesforce users globally. See Aircall’s integration with Kommo here. Salesforce.

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UJET

OCTOBER 22, 2020

As a result, the company reduced their in-app voice wait times by 50%. Their average public switched telephone network (PSTN) caller wait time dropped to less than one minute, and their PSTN call abandonment dropped 8%. ByNext Uses Real-Time Data + Customer History to Solve Issues Faster.

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Babelforce

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

You can use the WhatsApp Business app, or integrate the platform with your existing tools using the API. You’ll cut customer wait time and your team will have fewer calls to deal with. #5 WhatsApp makes it easy for businesses to provide support via the platform. For example: Your website Company bio Address Phone number.

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AWS Machine Learning

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

All existing and new customers using Amazon Transcribe can experience the performance improvements out of the box, without any API changes. In a contact center, agents spend precious time after each call manually summarizing notes, which can impact their productivity and increase call wait times.

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Balto

MARCH 17, 2025

These systems can also detect when wait times exceed acceptable thresholds and alert supervisors in real-time. They utilize key performance indicators (KPIs) such as average handle time and customer satisfaction scores to help agents and managers make informed decisions, identify issues, and enhance operational efficiency.

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UJET

JANUARY 9, 2020

Are they using separate tools connected through loosely developed APIs? Constant switching between tools can lead to spikes in customer wait times and handle times, which can prove to be costly. Customer support shouldn’t be a mix of separate systems connected through APIs and band-aid integrations.

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TeleDirect

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Their innovative APIs and cloud connection services are the perfect tools to improve our fantastic call centers. These channels use API technology to provide voice-led communication across the country and worldwide. That’s why we became Twilio help desk partners. By becoming Twilio partners, we’ve cut through this red tape.

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SmartAction

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

By using API’s and generative AI technologies, financial institutions can verify customer identities quickly and securely. This empowerment reduces wait times and enhances customer satisfaction by providing banking services at their convenience.

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Babelforce

APRIL 14, 2020

Better that than wait, say, twenty-five minutes and then hang up. Telling them their expected wait time at least lets them make an informed choice. Getting stuck on hold is frustrating precisely because customers have no control. 2 Create a virtual queue.

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Babelforce

APRIL 14, 2020

Better that than wait, say, twenty-five minutes and then hang up. Telling them their expected wait time at least lets them make an informed choice. Getting stuck on hold is frustrating precisely because customers have no control. 2 Create a virtual queue.

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UJET

JANUARY 9, 2020

Are they using separate tools connected through loosely developed APIs? Constant switching between tools can lead to spikes in customer wait times and handle times, which can prove to be costly. Customer support shouldn’t be a mix of separate systems connected through APIs and band-aid integrations.

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Hodusoft

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

This shortens the wait time for callers. As a result, agents have more time to deal with complex issues. SMS providers can be integrated with APIs conveniently. These are the features offered by self-service tools. Call Recording . SMS Integration . Remote Agents.

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Babelforce

OCTOBER 12, 2021

The standard approach is to link these systems using APIs. You can read more about API integration here. This is usually the current waiting time or call volume. Here’s what that process looks like: A customer contacts your business. Your ACD routes them to an IVR, or directly to a queue.

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NICE inContact

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

Intelligent IVR routing from TruGreen’s 4,500 inbound phone numbers—and using NICE inContact APIs to pull in its own data—enables the company to provide personalized, localized customer service.

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NICE inContact

FEBRUARY 13, 2018

Open and accessible APIs allow for seamless integration and data dips into CRMs and databases to quickly and easily retrieve customer information based on their phone number or other data points, and immediately present those to the agent. If screen pops improve the AHT, then they also in turn will have a positive impact on the wait time.

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VocalCom

MAY 13, 2020

With this cloud solution natively developed in Salesforce, Beter Bed can manage its call center and the entire customer relationship directly in one unique application – Salesforce -, eliminating the need for API or integration.

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Babelforce

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

Abandon rate is simply the proportion of customers who give up while waiting to reach the right resource (generally an agent.). When a lot of customers abandon, it signals an over-long wait time or negative queuing experience. Average Time in Queue. That means API integration – which we’ve covered.

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Nicereply

JUNE 2, 2020

According to MIT queuing theory professor , Richard Larson, “the psychology of queuing is more important than the statistics of the wait itself.” We tend to think we’ve been standing in line for longer than we really have; our perceived wait time can feel like an eternity even if it’s just been a few minutes.

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Interactions

JUNE 2, 2022

Whether a guest is making a reservation or in the middle of their travel, when they contact you, they do not want to be kept waiting on hold. Your IVA partner should offer technology that eliminates wait times and reliance on live agents for traditionally difficult to automate transactions.

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JustCall

JULY 2, 2024

Additionally, there have been reports of inconsistent customer support quality, with some users experiencing long wait times. Price: 8×8 offers various pricing plans for their Communication APIs. Price: Vonage offers a variety of pricing options for their communication APIs, categorized mainly by the type of service.

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InGenius

JANUARY 2, 2019

API - Application Programming Interface. An application programming interface (API) is a software "go-between" that acts like a behind the scenes guide to make it easier to connect two applications. EWT - Expected Wait Time. Automatic Number Identification (ANI) lets agents see the incoming call number as basic caller ID.

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AWS Machine Learning

AUGUST 26, 2024

In the following subsections, we outline our API design, authentication mechanisms, response time optimization strategies, and operational practices that collectively enable us to deliver high-quality, timely account summaries at scale.

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Comm100

MAY 7, 2019

Is there intent-based routing available to automatically direct inbound queries to the right department the first time, without triage or transfers? Can integrations and APIs be used to connect the platform to other systems, making deep personalisation automatic? Is this platform easily accessible by the right internal stakeholders?

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bold360 Blog

DECEMBER 10, 2020

Savio: Whenever you’re selecting technology, make sure that it’s not just capable of doing what you’re using it for, but that it ‘plays well’ with other systems within your organization, Does it have APIs available? How easy or hard is it to push or pull information from it through those APIs? Can that be done securely?

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