Content Guru Teams Up with Bechtle in New Partnership
By Alex Gaw November 23, 2021
Content Guru, a leading provider of cloud communications and contact center solutions based in the UK that counts that country’s National Health Service (NHS) as a client, has formed a new partnership with Bechtle AG, Germany’s largest IT...
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Salesforce Report: Rising Shopper Expectations Put Pressure on Brands and Retailers to Redefine Customer Engagement Strategies
- By Alex Gaw November 22, 2021
A new report from leading customer relationship manager (CRM) platform provider Salesforce sheds light on how COVID-19 permanently upended shopping for consumers and brands alike, raising shopper expectations in significant ways, while dramatically...
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Bad CX Accounts for $4.7 Trillion in Global Consumer At-Risk Sales
- By Alex Gaw November 18, 2021
In two separate Qualtrics studies, the importance to consumers of good CX took center stage as fallout from the reverse—shoddy or poor CX—translated into a risk of staggering trillion-dollar losses for businesses worldwide and to consumers...
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Exotel Acquires Chatbot Developer Cogno AI
- By Alex Gaw November 18, 2021
Exotel, a provider of cloud-based telephony services in India, has acquired fellow Indian communications platform and artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot developer Cogno AI, in a cash-and-stock deal aimed at expanding the growing company’s...
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Private Equity Firms Maintain a Hearty Appetite for CX Growth Investments
- By Alex Gaw November 17, 2021
Podium On November 15, communication and payments platform Podium announced it had raised $201 million in Series D funding led by YC Continuity, bringing Lehi, Utah-based Podium’s valuation to more than $3 billion. YC Continuity is...
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Personalization Is Important, but Marketers Face Many Obstacles
- By Alex Gaw November 16, 2021
Personalization may be important for companies to achieve increased revenue and enhanced CX, but marketers for global retail brands are frustrated by multiple challenges in their efforts to implement the desired trait. The finding is contained...
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Is Cutting Customer Service the Answer for Companies to Cope with Rising Inflation?
- By Alex Gaw November 15, 2021
With inflation surging this year, companies across industries are responding not by slashing prices, but by cutting customer service. This was the conclusion reached by a story in The New York Times that recounted how firms were taking steps...
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Treasure Data Secures $234 Million from Lead Investor SoftBank
- By Alex Gaw November 12, 2021
In what is being called the largest-ever single funding round for a customer data platform (CDP), California-based Treasure Data has secured $234 million in an investment drive led by SoftBank Group Corp., the giant Japanese multinational...
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E-Commerce Lender Qupital Secures New $150 Million Funding to Push Expansion Plans
- By Alex Gaw November 11, 2021
Qupital, the Hong Kong-based provider of capital and financing services to cross-border e-commerce sellers, has raised $150 million to expand business internationally and continue providing lower-cost loans to credit-worthy e-commerce sellers,...
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Cisco Unveils New Webex Features
- By Alex Gaw November 9, 2021
Cisco, the computer networking conglomerate headquartered in Silicon Valley, is implementing new features for its Webex video conferencing ecosystem meant to support hybrid work environments, the company said in a recent announcement. The new...
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Retailers Deploy AI to Improve CX and Drive Revenue
- By Alex Gaw November 8, 2021
A new report reveals that retailers are applying artificial intelligence (AI) to new areas in their business beyond simply boosting technical performance, and are doing so with an eye toward improving CX and driving topline revenue. The fresh...
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Acquia Study: Marketers Changed Digital CX Strategies While the Pandemic Raged On
- By Alex Gaw November 5, 2021
A new global research study confirms that marketers all over the world changed their digital CX strategies in one way or another during the last year-and-a-half to remain relevant to consumers while, navigating a marketing landscape dramatically...
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Informatica Announces Initial Public Offering
- By Alex Gaw November 3, 2021
Six years after it was taken private, enterprise data management company Informatica has returned to the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) with an initial public offering (IPO) of 29 million shares of Class A common stock (ticker INFA). Priced at...
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Zendesk to Acquire Momentive of SurveyMonkey Fame
- By Alex Gaw November 2, 2021
Global customer relationship management (CRM) firm Zendesk is set to acquire online experience management company Momentive, formerly known as SurveyMonkey, in an all-stock transaction that will be growth accretive for Zendesk by 2023 and...
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Significant Disconnect Exists Between Consumers and Business Leaders on Issues of Trust
- By Alex Gaw November 1, 2021
A new joint report by Deloitte Digital and Twilio shows that a significant chasm exits between consumers and US business leaders when it comes to trust, with many leaders overly confident about the extent of customer trust in their brands. The...
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More Than 100,000 Brands Have Joined Amazon’s US Store This Year
- By Alex Gaw October 29, 2021
More than 100,000 brands have started selling in the US stores of Amazon so far this year, and sales from brands were up by 60% at the end of June compared to the same time last year, Amazon announced during its Accelerate 21 virtual conference in...
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