This July 4th, declare your independence from IVR lock-in

July 1st, 2009 by Kim Martin

We see it all the time – companies who deployed a standards-based voice application platform only to find out that they’re still locked in. How does that happen? After all, isn’t portability a key tenet of open standards?

Of course it is, but the fact is that your provider doesn’t want you going anywhere. To accomplish this, many vendors bundle proprietary tools that make it difficult to switch solutions should your requirements change down the road. Even standards-touting VoiceXML providers often use proprietary call control and VoiceXML tags to cleverly move lock-in from the platform level to the application level.declareyourindependence1

At Voxeo, we keep our customers by providing them with a better product and better support – never by locking them in. Voxeo offers the only VoiceXML browser to pass 100% of the VoiceXML Forum’s compliance test suite, including all optional tests, and the world’s most deployed CCXML browser. We support all of the secondary W3C voice standards and more SIP capabilities than any other vendor. Equally important, Voxeo strictly adheres to the principles behind open standards. The result is greater choice, unmatched flexibility, lower costs and true portability.

Since Voxeo’s customers own their intellectual property, they can switch providers, engage different development resources, or change their deployment model if requirements change.

With Voxeo you are free to:

  • Move from hosting to a premise or hybrid deployment (or the other way around)
  • Use your application development partner or VoiceXML development tool of choice
  • Leverage the Voxeo VoiceObjects service creation environment to “design once and deploy anywhere.” VoiceObjects applications seamlessly work across all leading VoiceXML platforms and across multiple channels, including voice, IM, SMS and the mobile web. These phone channels can share the underlying dialog flow definition, business logic and back-end access, drastically simplifying development, maintenance, and reporting.
  • Use your speech vendor of choice; Voxeo offers free built-in speech recognition and synthesis, as well as support for any MRCP-compliant engine
  • Choose from a variety of TDM and VoIP carriers
  • Run your application on any standards-compliant platform, including those of our competitors

If you are interested in learning more about Voxeo and our standards-based platform, contact us today.


Related posts:

  1. Haunted by ghosts of IVRs past?
  2. FAQ about Voxeo’s acquisition of Motorola’s VoiceXML browser business (VoxGateway)
  3. Visit our VoiceObjects team at Genesys’ G-Force conference this week
  4. THE CLOUD MUST BE OPEN! Voxeo Announces Tropo: The Open Source Cloud Telephony Service
  5. Voice & Cloud Computing: “Pushing IVR Into The Cloud, Part 1: Making the Move”

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