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Service and Support Leadership in the Era of Generative AI
Generative AI presents an opportunity for service and support leaders to redefine their function's business value.
Posted December 20, 2024
Emotion AI Market to Be Worth $9.01 Billion by 2030
Research firm MarketsandMarkets has projected the worldwide emotion artificial intelligence market to grow at a compound annual rate of 21.9 percent over the next six years. (Featured on
DestinationCRM.com
.)
Posted December 17, 2024
AI Chatbots Market to Be Worth $22.6 Billion by 2031
AI chatbots are expected to grow at a CAGR of 27.8 percent over the next seven years, according to Meticulous Research. (Featured on
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.)
Posted December 17, 2024
Tata Communications Introduces Kaleyra AI
Tata Communications' Kaleyra AI is an AI-powered assistant for customer interactions.
Posted December 12, 2024
Descope and 8x8 Partner
8x8's integrates its CPaaS API with Descope's drag-and-drop customer identity and access management platform.
Posted December 12, 2024
Jovee Launches Jovee AI, a GenAI Virtual Assistant
Jovee AI is a virtual assistant to enhance internal processes for contact centers.
Posted December 12, 2024
Transcom Taps Sanas for Noise-Free Customer Interactions in Outsourced Operations
Sanas' Speech Understanding Platform is enhancing communication for Transcom customers worldwide.
Posted December 11, 2024
Gartner: 30% of Top Companies Will Offer Service Only Through One Channel by 2028
In the next three years, leading companies will offer service only through a single, artificial intelligence-enabled channel that allows communication through text, image, and sound, Gartner predicts.
Posted December 11, 2024
Calabrio Acquires Echo AI
Calabrio's acquisition of Echo AI helps mutual customers optimize contact centers with AI.
Posted December 11, 2024
Five9 Launches Bi-Directional Presence Feature for Microsoft Teams
Five9 agents and Microsoft Teams users can now both see real-time presence status from a consolidated directory.
Posted December 11, 2024
Alvaria Unveils the Alvaria Intelligence Platform
Alvaria Intelligence Platform lets companies elevate contact center capabilities with AI.
Posted December 11, 2024
CallTrackingMetrics Launches AskAI Summaries and VoiceAI
CallTrackingMetrics' AskAI Summaries provides interaction insights while VoiceAI helps businesses set up after-hours assistants.
Posted December 10, 2024
Calabrio Launches AI-Driven Solution for Healthcare
Calabrio is leading a partnership developing a platform to manage virtual and human agents for telemedicine and patient contact centers.
Posted December 06, 2024
Kustomer Launches Tasks and Skills-Based Routing
Kustomer Tasks and Skills-Based Routing help companies direct internal workflows and customer support inquiries.
Posted December 06, 2024
Verint Launches CX/EX Scoring Bot
Verint's CX/EX Scoring Bot is the latest Agent Copilot Bot added to the Verint Open Platform.
Posted December 04, 2024
RingCentral Enhances Zendesk Integration
New features deliver deeper real-time data and context for seamless customer interactions.
Posted December 02, 2024
ASAPP Turns to Amazon Bedrock
ASAPP uses Amazon Bedrock to help contact centers build and scale generative AI solutions.
Posted December 02, 2024
Amazon Connect Puts Generative AI to Work
New capabilities in Amazon Connect include proactive, personalized customer outreach, improved self-service, generative AI safeguards, and manager tools for agent coaching.
Posted December 02, 2024
Teleperformance Acquires ZP Better Together
Teleperformance buys ZP Better Together, a provider of language services to the deaf and hard of hearing, for $490 million.
Posted December 02, 2024
Aquant’s Service Co-Pilot Now Available in Microsoft Azure Marketplace
Microsoft Azure customers worldwide now gain access to Aquant's Service Co-Pilot.
Posted December 02, 2024
Salesforce Introduces Agentforce Testing Center
Salesforce's Agentforce Testing Center is an AI agent lifecycle management tool for testing autonomous AI agents at scale.
Posted November 20, 2024
Uniphore Partners with Konecta
Uniphore and Konecta have joined forcers to advance AI in customer experience and digital transformation.
Posted November 20, 2024
Talkdesk Launches Embedded
Talkdesk Embedded brings conversational AI into third-party CRM and helpdesk applications.
Posted November 20, 2024
ServiceTitan Launches Contact Center Pro
ServiceTitan's Contact Center Pro is a UCaaS and CCaaS solution for the service trades.
Posted November 20, 2024
The One-Question Test for Whether Your CX Strategy is Outdated
Your strategies are out of date if they still involve PDFs.
Posted November 19, 2024
Mitel Launches Mitel CX
Mitel CX extends CX capabilities to all employees, inside and outside the contact center.
Posted November 19, 2024
Avaamo Launches AutoQA
Avaamo AutoQA is a genAI-powered quality assurance solution for contact centers.
Posted November 15, 2024
Bucher + Suter Partners with Upstream Works
Partnership expands Bucher + Suter's private cloud offerings with Upstream Works' advanced omnichannel capabilities.
Posted November 14, 2024
IntelePeer’s SmartAgent and SmartOffice Now in Microsoft Azure Marketplace
Microsoft Azure customers worldwide now gain access to IntelePeer's AI-driven customer interaction automation solutions.
Posted November 14, 2024
Cognigy Unveils Agentic AI
Agentic AI is Cognigy's latest addition to its Cognigy.AI platform.
Posted November 14, 2024
Dialpad Launches Dialpad Support
Dialpad Support leverage generative AI to boost customer service efficiency.
Posted November 13, 2024
ServiceNow and Five9 Expand Partnership
ServiceNow and Five9 are combining ServiceNow Customer Service Management and the Five9 platform, bringing real-time transcription, unified routing, and a consolidated agent workspace.
Posted November 13, 2024
Natterbox Launches AI Assist for Post-Call Automation
Natterbox AI Assist is the latest addition to the Natterbox AI Suite.
Posted November 12, 2024
Contact Center Market to Grow by $208.2 Billion Through 2028
Technavio expects cloud-based solutions to drive revenue in the contact center market and AI to redefine the landscape.
Posted November 12, 2024
Mitel Strengthens Partnership with Talkative
Expanded partnership brings generative artificial intelligence tools to Mitel's contact center solutions.
Posted November 12, 2024
Intradiem Partners with Five9
Intradiem's real-time contact center automation technology comes to Five9's cloud-based Intelligent CX platform.
Posted November 12, 2024
RingCentral Partners with Verint
RingCentral and Verint team up to bring AI-powered workforce engagement management and CX automation to RingCX
Posted November 07, 2024
Pindrop Integrates with Five9 for Cloud Contact Center Protection
Pindrop provides real-time authentication and fraud protection for companies natively with the Five9 Intelligent CX Platform
Posted November 05, 2024
NICE Launches CXone Mpower SmartSpeak
NICE's CXone Mpower SmartSpeak enables real-time translation of contact center interactions.
Posted November 05, 2024
Business Systems and Teneo.ai Partner
Business Systems and Teneo.ai have teamed up to provide contact centers with advanced voice automation and generative AI.
Posted November 05, 2024
Cyara Names Rishi Rana as CEO
Cyara's president is advanced to new role while Alok Kulkarni transitions to non-executive chairman. (Featured on
DestinationCRM.com
.)
Posted November 01, 2024
Kustomer Launches Customer Service Platform with AI Agents
Kustomer's new customer service platform blends AI and human agents.
Posted October 31, 2024
RingCentral's AI Assistant Now Included in RingEX
RingCentral's AI Assistant can generate notes, write and translate texts, summarize meetings, and more.
Posted October 31, 2024
KM, AI Need to Work Together for Optimum Success, eGain Speakers Contend
Speakers at eGain's Solv 24 conference urge companies to blend artificial intelligence, knowledge management, and human insight for better customer experiences.
Posted October 30, 2024
Calabrio Unveils Trending Topics and Auto QM
With Calabrio Trending Topics and Auto QM, contact centers can now leverage AI to automate the evaluation of every customer interaction and identify the most common reasons for customer inquiries.
Posted October 30, 2024
Klearcom to Deliver IVR Testing in 100 Countries
Klearcom provides in-country number and IVR testing in more than 100 countries worldwide.
Posted October 30, 2024
Generative AI Will Displace 100,000 Agents in 2025, Forrester Predicts
Forrester predicts greater use of AI by contact center outsourcers, disrupting the agent landscape in the coming year.
Posted October 25, 2024
Cisco Adds AI and Collaboration Tools
Cisco's new AI, CX, and collaboration enhancements include Webex Contact Center upgrades.
Posted October 23, 2024
GoTo Integrates GoTo Connect and Leading CRM Platforms
New integrations provide a more comprehensive customer view, creating AI-powered workflows between GoTo Connect and CRM solutions.
Posted October 22, 2024
Talkdesk Integrates Agentic AI Across Its Portfolio
Talkdesk rebrands its portfolio as Ascend AI with the addition of Agentic AI.
Posted October 22, 2024
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