Ozonetel IVR System vs Plum DEV

Ozonetel IVR System is a cloud service for automated attendants, caller self-service, and smart call routing. Its visual builder lets users create and change IVR flows without code. Callers can navigate multi-level menus, use after-hours routing or callbacks, and reach skills-based routing. Speech recognition and natural language processing allow spoken interaction instead of keypad input. The system can run outbound campaigns for satisfaction surveys, feedback collection, and notifications about offers or dues. Listed CRM and CTI integrations include Salesforce, Zoho, Zendesk, Freshdesk, and HubSpot. An open API library and the option to use an existing SIP trunk are available. Ozonetel says its self-service tools can triple call-handling capacity and enable four-times-faster response times; it also says the platform handles 2.5 billion calls annually. Support includes 24 x 7 live phone assistance, onboarding, and training. Ozonetel states that it is HIPAA compliant and holds ISO 27001:2013 and ISO 20000-1:2018 certifications. Pricing is on request, and a 7-day trial is promoted. The advertised 99.99% uptime SLA varies by region.

Plum DEV is a cloud developer platform for automating processes through voice and building interactive customer self-service applications. Its VoiceXML foundation lets developers control customer interactions, including inbound IVR and inbound or outbound SMS. SMS requires an SMS-ready phone number. APIs connect DEV with CRM, ERP, voice-of-customer, telephony and other database systems, and it also works with Plum Fuse. Developers can customize branding, call flows and backend database integrations. Multiple text-to-speech and automatic speech-recognition engines are supported, including Amazon Polly, with dozens of languages and dialects. Integrated VoiceTrends tracks usage and performance, supports script A/B testing and provides granular reports. Plum says DEV runs on custom telephony data centers and AWS, with on-demand scalability and a 99.9% uptime SLA. It describes the platform as PCI-DSS Level 1 and HIPAA compliant, while customers remain responsible for configuring applications for applicable requirements. Pricing is available on request. Demo accounts have limited access and no call logging.