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Infrastructure & Hardware
Enghouse Acquires Aculab
Enghouse is adding the cloud and on-premises communications software and hardware company.
Posted December 17, 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
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
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
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
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
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
Mitel Launches Mitel CX
Mitel CX extends CX capabilities to all employees, inside and outside the contact center.
Posted November 19, 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
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
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
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
NICE Expands CXone Mpower
CXone Mpower revolutionizes AI for customer service on a unified hyper platform, enabling companies to design, build, and operate automation for workflows, agents, and knowledge.
Posted October 22, 2024
8x8 Extends 8x8 Intelligent Customer Assistant for Enhanced Voice and Digital Customer Engagement
8x8 has added more personalized, conversational AI self-service in its Intelligent Customer Assistant.
Posted October 18, 2024
Vonage Launches Intelligent Workspace
VCC Intelligent Workspace offers agents AI-powered guidance during customer interactions.
Posted October 17, 2024
DRUID AI Launches DRUID Conductor
DRUID Conductor enables autonomous AI agent creation and orchestration.
Posted October 15, 2024
Avaya Launches Virtual Operations Manager
Avaya's Virtual Operations Manager concept highlights how human and artificial intelligence collaboration can alter customer experience in contact centers
Posted October 14, 2024
Intercom Releases Fin 2 AI Agent
Intercom's new Fin 2 AI agent supports new channels, data sources, interaction types, and more.
Posted October 10, 2024
Aircall Launches Aircall Workspace
Aircall Workspace is a hub for agent collaboration and customer communication.
Posted October 10, 2024
Zendesk Strengthens Human and AI Partnership in Major Solution Upgrades
Zendesk's new omnichannel AI agents and agent copilot offerings boost human and AI collaboration across workflows, including voice AI.
Posted October 09, 2024
Amazon Updates Q in Connect to Provide Personalized Responses
The latest updates to Amazon Connect can now make recommendations to agents based on the customer's data.
Posted October 08, 2024
Broadvoice Launches Advanced Analytics
Broadvoice Advanced Analytics uses AI for enhanced reporting and journey management. (Featured on
DestinationCRM.com
.)
Posted October 08, 2024
Glia Launches Unified Interactions Index Online Calculator
Glia's Unified Interactions Index Calculator provides a guided digital process for banks and credit unions to benchmark and evaluate the impact of service interactions. (Featured on
DestinationCRM.com
.)
Posted October 08, 2024
SupportLogic Launches Voice Connect and Expand
SupportLogic's Voice Connect and Expand products bring insight into customer signals. (Featured on
DestinationCRM.com
.)
Posted October 08, 2024
boost.ai Launches AI-Powered CX Insights
boost.ai's CX Insights enable an automatic review and deeper analysis of every customer interaction with virtual agents. (Featured on
DestinationCRM.com
.)
Posted October 08, 2024
Twilio Integrates with OpenAI’s Realtime API for Building Conversational AI Applications
The integration of OpenAI with Twilio's Communications APIs will enable developers to create voice experiences.
Posted October 02, 2024
FluentStream Adds Extensive CRM Integrations
Fluentstream customers can connect their CRM platforms to their business phone systems for enhanced client management. (Featured on
DestinationCRM.com
.)
Posted October 01, 2024
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