Zoho’s recent analyst conference was an opportunity to explore how the India-founded software company is faring in its efforts to extend its enterprise business, and to place AI at the center of its product portfolio. It appears the company is having some success on both fronts.
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Topics:
Contact Center,
Customer Experience Management,
Customers and CX - Business & Technologies
The breadth of customer experience (CX) solutions created by software providers in recent years has expanded into new areas, usually related or adjacent to existing, more traditional toolkits. Most providers in the space began as more-or-less pure play contact center software providers, so the CX toolset starts with that set of technologies. Products are grounded in core functions for service delivery, like interaction handling, labor management and customer tracking. Some software providers...
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Topics:
Customer Experience,
Contact Center,
Customer Experience Management,
Generative AI,
CXM,
Customer Success,
Pre-Hire Assessment
Verint is operating in quite a different marketplace for contact center and agent management technology than existed five years ago. We have seen tremendous innovation and expansion of the available technologies for running centers and optimizing the performance of the human labor pool, as well as an explosion of tools built to automate customer interactions.
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Topics:
Customer Experience,
Contact Center,
agent management,
Customer Experience Management
Sprinklr’s analyst day in September was an opportunity for the company to dive deeply into its progress in pivoting its product offerings to align with a broader perception of the market for contact centers and adjacent customer-related applications.
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Topics:
Customer Experience,
Contact Center,
agent management,
Customer Experience Management
It is unfortunate that business-focused digital communications are sold under three different headings: Contact Center as a Service (CCaaS), Unified Communication as a Service (UCaaS) and Communication Platform as a Service (CPaaS). (And that just counts the cloud options—let us acknowledge the huge, continuing, installed base on premises.) These are terrible ways to describe complex, varied and overlapping offerings. What distinguishes them are:
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Topics:
Customer Engagement,
Customer Experience,
Contact Center,
Customer Experience Management,
Digital Communications,
CCaaS,
Intelligent Self-Service,
CPaaS,
UCaaS,
CXM
Self-service has changed immensely in recent years. It has gotten better, qualitatively, in delivering answers and resolutions to customers. But it has also gotten extremely complex, relying on a basket of new technologies to achieve results. It helps to look at it through the eyes of the three main constituencies that are affected by it: customers, contact centers and the businesses they sit in.
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Customer Experience,
Contact Center,
Customer Experience Management,
Intelligent Self-Service
Verint held its analyst conference recently, using the opportunity to flesh out how it is responding to the rapid developments in artificial intelligence (AI) and data-related technologies and to changes in the way enterprises consider the purchasing process for contact center-related tools.
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Topics:
Customer Experience,
Contact Center,
Customer Experience Management,
Intelligent Self-Service
Field service operations are not often discussed as part of enterprise customer experience planning, but there is a strong argument that they should be seen as an important factor driving how customers perceive brands. Like contact centers, field service teams are dealing with the advance of startling new technologies that can be expensive and disruptive. The flip side of disruption, though, is that it presents interesting opportunities for improving customer-related outcomes.
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Customer Experience,
Contact Center,
Customer Experience Management
The next phase of buying for contact centers and adjoining service/customer experience (CX) teams is going to be heavily influenced by how vendors develop tightly integrated ecosystems and define use cases and benefits across enterprise personas. There are more people involved in the work of delivering customer service, and a broader technology landscape from which buyers can choose their software applications. Platforms now function well beyond the communications needs of the contact center,...
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Topics:
Customer Experience,
Contact Center,
agent management,
Customer Experience Management
We are going through an analytics revolution in and around contact centers. There is more data to analyze and better tools to conduct the analysis. One important advancement is assessing customer sentiment and using it to predict (and influence) behavior. Enterprises are using customer experience programs to identify and act upon hidden "moments of leverage" where customers may be inclined or primed to make a purchase. To do that effectively, enterprises need insight into how the customer...
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Topics:
Customer Experience,
Voice of the Customer,
Contact Center,
Customer Experience Management,
Intelligent Self-Service