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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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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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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Travel & Hospitality Sector Turns to Self-Service
By Sherril Hanson October 27, 2021
One of the sectors most affected by the COVID-19 pandemic has certainly been the travel & hospitality industry. Particular pain points include how to handle large spikes in the volume of support requests during staffing shortages and how to...
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Steps to Transform Contact Centers into Engagement Centers
By Keith Kirkpatrick October 21, 2021
Contact centers have long played a passive role in delivering customer service, usually handling inbound inquiries related to administrative customer inquiries, technical questions or issues, or general questions about the company, its products and...
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Verizon Offers Enterprises AI Tools to Streamline CX
By Sue Marek October 14, 2021
Not only are telecom operators turning to artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) tools to streamline their own customer care, but they are also offering AI-based tools to their business customers to help them enhance customer...
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Businesses Are Better at Handling Customer Expectations Because of Pandemic, Journal Says
- By Alex Gaw October 12, 2021
The COVID-19 pandemic compelled brands to speed up their digital transformation that led to vast improvements in brand experiences for customers, according to the publication Customer Strategist, which also covered the way industries responded to...
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CX Solutions Maker Genesys to Acquire Pointillist and Exceed.ai
- By Alex Gaw October 11, 2021
Genesys, the Daly City, California-based provider of CX and call center solutions, is acquiring Pointillist and Exceed.ai in its goal to transform the customer and employee experience, the company announced on its website. Pointillist is an...
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Zoom’s Multibillion-Dollar Deal to Acquire Five9 Collapses
- By Alex Gaw October 1, 2021
The $14.7 billion deal involving a bid by video conferencing company Zoom to acquire cloud contact center Five9 fell apart at the 11th hour, scuttled by Five9 shareholder concerns over the recent drop in Zoom’s stock price and the company’s...
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Video Chat: Boosting Conversions and Aiding the Customer Journey by Ocular Solution
- By Alex Gaw September 29, 2021
Chilean startup Ocular Solution may have found the missing piece in the customer journey puzzle of why visitors to a site do not turn into customers. The solution to the puzzle is video chat, or the online, face-to-face visual communication carried...
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COVID-19 Forces Telecom Operators to Adapt Their Customer Service Operations
- By Sue Marek September 20, 2021
The COVID-19 pandemic accelerated the speed at which telecom operators shifted toward online customer service tools and e-commerce retail sales. And even with telecom retail stores fully open across the country today, it is expected that consumers...
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ASAPP Report: Why Turnover of US Contact Center Agents Is So High
- By Alex Gaw September 17, 2021
A new report from ASAPP, the research-based provider of artificial intelligence (AI) software, identifies three major themes associated with the high turnover of US contact center agents and their corollary impact on the worldwide CX...
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