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How Good Are Today's CX Programs? It Depends on Whether You Ask Customers or Companies

By: Tracey E. Schelmetic    7/3/2023

A recent study completed by SurveyMonkey uncovered a drastic disconnect between consumers' feelings and customer experience (CX) and digital marketing…

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MSP and BPO iQor Partners with AmplifAI Performance Enablement

By: Tracey E. Schelmetic    7/3/2023

Business process outsourcing (BPO) and managed services company iQor recently announced a strategic partnership with AmplifAI, an AI-driven performanc…

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Contact Center Quality Management Company EvaluAgent Announces $20M in Funding

By: Tracey E. Schelmetic    6/29/2023

EvaluAgent, a U.K.- and Las Vegas-based contact center quality assurance and performance improvement solutions provider, announced recently that it ra…

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Contact Centers Aren't Analyzing Enough Calls to Effectively Monitor Agent Performance

By: Tracey E. Schelmetic    6/28/2023

A new study by Invoca found that most contact center managers are still stuck in the past, tediously sifting through random call samples by hand inste…

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Employee Experience, Cloud and AI Investments Power Enhanced Customer Experience

By: Greg Tavarez    6/28/2023

Most CEOs agree that improvements in CX and EX directly affect their net profit, according to an NTT report. Still, there is room for improvement, as …

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Breaking Down Silos: Verint Launches Enterprise Experience Management

By: Greg Tavarez    6/23/2023

Verint introduced Verint Enterprise Experience Management, a solution that enables organizations to gather and analyze customer experience insights ac…

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Bandwidth Partners with IT Consulting Company Miratech for Cloud CX

By: Tracey E. Schelmetic    6/23/2023

Cloud communications company Bandwidth and IT consulting company Miratech recently announced a collaboration in an effort to accelerate digital custom…

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Verint's Open CCaaS Platform Helps Companies Future-Proof Call Centers

By: Tracey E. Schelmetic    6/22/2023

At its recent customer engagement event in Las Vegas, customer engagement solutions provider Verint demonstrated its Open Contact-Center-as-a-Service …

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CallTower Debuts Upgraded CRM Integration for Microsoft Teams

By: Greg Tavarez    6/22/2023

CallTower, a provider of enterprise-grade unified communications, contact center and collaboration solutions via the cloud, unveiled its enhanced CRM …

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Evolve IP Integrates Contact Center Solution with UCaaS Environment

By: Tracey E. Schelmetic    6/22/2023

UK-based Evolve IP recently added a new contact center solution to its collaboration services mix that is integrated with its unified-communications-a…

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Contact Centers Receive Boost via Verint's Engagement Data Insights

By: Greg Tavarez    6/22/2023

Verint, The Customer Engagement Company, launched Verint Engagement Data Insights, providing business users no-code, no-training, self-service access …

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Storyteq Acquires Pixelz.ai to Futurize Brand-Compliant Generative AI

By: Alex Passett    6/21/2023

Storyteq, the technology arm of Inspired Thinking Group (ITG), has acquired Pixelz.ai to accelerate generative AI capabilities.

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Twilio and Google Cloud Expand Partnerships for AI-Driven Customer Engagement

By: Tracey E. Schelmetic    6/20/2023

Customer engagement platform company Twilio Inc. and Google Cloud recently announced an expansion of their long-standing partnership to bring Google C…

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Top 5 Reasons Sales Teams Should Use Video for Prospecting

By: Special Guest    6/20/2023

Video is the future of sales prospecting and sales professionals who haven't jumped on this trend yet should do this quickly.

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Lilt Create: An Accessible, Multilingual Writing App Powered by Generative AI

By: Alex Passett    6/16/2023

Lilt's newest tool - Lilt Create - enables quick generation and finalization of on-brand, well-written and locally relevant content.

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Salesforce Launches AI-Based Products for Marketing and E-Commerce

By: Tracey E. Schelmetic    6/14/2023

Salesforce has announced its latest generative AI product offerings: Marketing GPT and Commerce GPT.

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Orbita Launches CallDeflectAI Solution to Help Healthcare Companies Automate Queries

By: Tracey E. Schelmetic    6/14/2023

AI-powered virtual assistant and healthcare automation workflow company Orbita recently launched its CallDeflectAI solution that addresses the overwhe…

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CUSTOMER Magazine Announces Winners of the 2023 Contact Center Technology Award

By: CustomerZone360 News    6/13/2023

TMC announced the winners of their 18th Annual Contact Center Technology Award, presented by its premier publication, CUSTOMER magazine.

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Insurance Company If P&C Chooses Attensi for Gamified Contact Center Training

By: Tracey E. Schelmetic    6/13/2023

If P&C recently set out to transform its training to sharpen the skills of its public-facing staff via gamified simulation training scenarios from Att…

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Genesys Utilizes Generative AI to Create New Value for Customers

By: Greg Tavarez    6/9/2023

The latest generative AI addition to the platform deepens Genesys AI's expansive predictive, conversational language processing and analytics capabili…

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Carbyne Powers Atlanta's Efforts to Enhance Public Safety

By: Greg Tavarez    6/9/2023

The Carbyne Platform is live in Atlanta, equipping the city's 911 call center with enhanced capabilities for faster, more efficient and accurate emerg…

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UpdateAI Raises $2.3M to Automate Post-Sales Workflows

By: Greg Tavarez    6/8/2023

UpdateAI, the ChatGPT-powered CS platform, announced a milestone with a $2.3 million funding round led by IdealabX.

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Zappix and OP360 Create Seamless Self-Service Experiences

By: Greg Tavarez    6/7/2023

Zappix and OP360, in a new partnership, bring together their expertise to address the evolving customer experience demands.

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TDCX Announces New AI Consulting Arm

By: Tracey E. Schelmetic    6/7/2023

Customer experience solutions provider TDCX announced the launch of its AI consulting arm, TDCX AI.

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UK Customers Abandon Merchants That Lack Favorable Shipping Options

By: Tracey E. Schelmetic    6/6/2023

E-commerce shipping solutions companies ShipEngine and ShipStation recently published a guide titled, "Exploring the Nuances in Ecommerce."

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Taking Sales Communication to the Next Level: Pipedrive Debuts Advanced Call Center Integrations

By: Greg Tavarez    6/6/2023

Pipedrive announced the launch of two new advanced integrations with CloudTalk and JustCall to streamline sales communication and make business calls …

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TCN Enhances Consent Tracking Feature to Help Debt Collectors Succeed with SMS Communications

By: Tracey E. Schelmetic    6/5/2023

Cloud-based call center platform provider TCN, Inc. has announced SMS Consent Tracking feature enhancements to its flagship platform, TCN Operator.

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Solutions from Yellow.ai Now Available on the Genesys AppFoundry

By: Alex Passett    6/5/2023

Yellow.ai's dynamic generative and conversational AI solutions have joined the Genesys AppFoundry marketplace.

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Google Cloud Welcomes Teneo.ai as Partner, Launching Innovative Conversational IVR Plugin

By: Greg Tavarez    6/5/2023

Teneo.ai, a brand from Artificial Solutions and innovator in the field of AI, joined the Google Cloud Partner Advantage Program as a technology partne…

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Jabra Engage AI Integration Elevates Sentiment Analysis in Content Guru's Storm Platform

By: Greg Tavarez    6/2/2023

Content Guru is elevating the capabilities of its storm platform with the integration of the sentiment analysis software Jabra Engage AI.

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Five9 and Mutare Join Forces to Strengthen Voice Threat Defense

By: Greg Tavarez    6/2/2023

Mutare launched its Voice Traffic Filter, making it easy for contact centers to integrate a solution that eliminates unwanted phone calls with the Fiv…

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Hootsuite Announces Enhanced Inbox to Help Brands Address Social Media Private Messaging

By: Tracey E. Schelmetic    6/1/2023

Hootsuite has developed an Enhanced Inbox resource to enable timeless and seamless social inquiry management.

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Study Finds Customers are Wary of Bias and "Hallucinations" in AI

By: Tracey E. Schelmetic    6/1/2023

Generative AI's propensity to occasionally deliver inaccurate or nonsensical information -- a phenomenon known as a hallucination -- has the potential…

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UJET Furthers Integration with Microsoft Teams for Better First-Call Resolution

By: Tracey E. Schelmetic    5/30/2023

Contact center platform company UJET recently announced its latest contact center integration with Microsoft Teams so first-contact customer interacti…

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Quiq Aims to Eliminate the Mindless Chatbot with Its Conversational Customer Experience Solution

By: Tracey E. Schelmetic    5/25/2023

Customer messaging platform company Quiq recently announced the release of Conversational Customer Experience (CCX), its next generation of conversati…

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Five9's Bracket Challenge Highlights Shifting Contact Center Priorities

By: Erik Linask    5/24/2023

Businesses in general are placing higher value on employee experience, which is also translating into a focus on contact center agent experience.

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RV Lifestyle Company Chooses Twilio Customer Engagement for Data-Driven Customer Experiences

By: Tracey E. Schelmetic    5/24/2023

Customer engagement platform Twilio Inc. recently announced that Camping World is successfully reaching customers using tools from across Twilio's Cus…

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Vonage Partners with WhatsApp for Payments in Singapore

By: Tracey E. Schelmetic    5/24/2023

Cloud communications company Vonage recently announced a partnership with Meta's WhatsApp as a Business Solution Provider to launch payments on the me…

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Pegasystems Rides the Generative AI Wave

By: Erik Linask    5/23/2023

Pegasystems, the low-code platform provider, has announced Pega GenAI, a range of twenty new generative AI-powered boosters to be integrated into Pega…

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Yellow.ai Launches YellowG Platform to Propel Enterprise Conversations

By: Alex Passett    5/23/2023

Yellow.ai has launched its new YellowG enterprise solution for improving customers' and employees' experiences via automated workflows.

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The Marketing Conundrum: Budget Constraints and the Rise of Generative AI

By: Erik Linask    5/22/2023

The rise of innovative marketing tools and technologies, particularly generative AI, might provide a cost-effective solution for marketers struggling …

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Precisely Launches RapidCX Solution for Customer Communications in Regulated Markets

By: Tracey E. Schelmetic    5/22/2023

Precisely announced the launch of its EngageOne RapidCX, which it's calling an "innovation in customer communications management," or CCM.

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Xoxoday and Workato: A Partnership to Transform Rewards and Recognition Programs

By: Alex Passett    5/19/2023

Xoxoday and Workato recently partnered to transform how organizations' rewards and recognitions programs operate for the betterment of customers and e…

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Smart Marketing, with ChatGPT: Utilizing GPT-4's New Web Browsing Feature

By: Alex Passett    5/18/2023

OpenAI has moved into an early access public testing phase for its ChatGPT web browsing feature.

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CommBox Leverages ChatGPT for New Autonomous Conversation Capabilities

By: Tracey E. Schelmetic    5/18/2023

SaaS-based autonomous customer communications platform provider CommBox recently announced the first in a series of artificial intelligence (AI)-drive…

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Five9 Partners with German Managed Services Provider WTG

By: Tracey E. Schelmetic    5/18/2023

Cloud call center solutions provider Five9 recently announced a partnership with German managed services provider WTG.

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Building Loyalty through Superior CX: A Look at 8x8's XCaaS Enhancements

By: CustomerZone360 Staff    5/18/2023

With customer loyalty at an all-time low, 8x8 has announced enhancements to its XCaaS platform to help businesses drive better CX and improve retentio…

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SharpenCX Acquires Omnichannel Messaging Solution Webtext

By: Tracey E. Schelmetic    5/17/2023

SharpenCX announced it has completed the acquisition of Galway, Ireland-based Webtext, an omnichannel messaging solution.

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Boost.ai's New Platform Update Adds Generative AI Technology to Enhance the Customer Experience

By: Tracey E. Schelmetic    5/16/2023

Boost.ai has introduced Version 12 of its platform, the first of a series of planned updates by the company to incorporate LLM-enriched features.

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Digital Marketers Miss Out on Revenue Opportunities Without AI

By: Greg Tavarez    5/15/2023

Without added insights from AI, digital marketers were unable to consistently identify the highest performing message, according to a Persado study.

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