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Infrastructure & Hardware
Vonage and ServiceNow Expand Their Partnership
Vonage Contact Center with ServiceNow Voice integrates enterprise-grade voice and AI capabilities directly into enterprise workflows.
Posted March 24, 2026
Orange Business Extends Live Intelligence and Adds AI Protections
Live Intelligence Studio helps organizations build and manage AI agents, while other additions include branded calling, deepfake detection, AI-augmented customer care, and agentic telephony.
Posted March 19, 2026
Ringover Launches Ask Empower 2.0
Ringover's Ask Empower 2.0 AI assistant now features native conversational AI capability, from individual call transcript analysis to analyzing all historical and omnichannel conversations.
Posted March 18, 2026
LivePerson Partners with Coral Active to Launch LivePerson Sync
LivePerson Sync enables seamless integration with systems like Salesforce, Microsoft, and ServiceNow, bringing CRM data and workflows directly into the live agent workspace. (Featured on
DestinationCRM.com
.)
Posted March 17, 2026
Mitek Integrates with Ping Identity's PingOne DaVinci
Mitek's integration with PingOne DaVinci delivers identity verification at scale across the full customer journey.
Posted March 13, 2026
8x8 Expands General Availability of 8x8 Engage
8x8 Engage is now available to all channel partners and customers globally.
Posted March 13, 2026
UJET Launches Agentic Experience Orchestration
UJET's Agentic Experience Orchestration unifies CX data and AI, automates the agent experience, and consolidates enterprise systems.
Posted March 11, 2026
Five9 Adds to Five9 Fusion
New Five9 Fusion Partner Program brings together a growing ecosystem of product integrations and third-party technologies.
Posted March 11, 2026
Sinch Launches Voice Relay
Sinch bolsters its Enterprise Voice platform with Voice Relay, a voice infrastructure, branded calling, and networking.
Posted March 10, 2026
RingCentral Unveils AIR Pro, an Agentic Voice AI Platform for Customer Engagement
With RingCentral AIR Pro, companies can build and deploy voice-first, omnichannel AI agents in minutes.
Posted March 10, 2026
Mitel Introduces Mitel Edge
Mitel Mitel Edge is an intelligent on-premises communications architecture.
Posted March 09, 2026
Teneo Launches Real-Time Voice Testing
Teneo's new technology directly addresses user expectations, cognitive load management, and natural conversation flow.
Posted March 09, 2026
RingCentral Partners with OpenAI
RingCentral's communications platform is being integrated with OpenAI frontier models like GPT-5.2 to bring generative AI into the voice channel.
Posted February 19, 2026
8x8 Launches Platform-Wide Upgrades
8x8's latest updates helps companies streamline operations, cut handling times, and improve workforce management.
Posted February 19, 2026
Vida Expands AI Agent Operating System
Vida's latest AI Agent Operating System Release delivers omnichannel capabilities, centralized control, and flexible integrations. (Featured on
DestinationCRM.com
.)
Posted February 10, 2026
Cisco Launches Webex Contact Center for ServiceNow
Cisco partners with ServiceNow to deliver a cloud-native contact center solution for ServiceNow CSM, CRM, and ITSM environments.
Posted February 10, 2026
ASAPP Achieves HITRUST e1 Certification
HITRUST assessment confirms ASAPP's Customer Experience Platform meets rigorous cybersecurity and information protection standards.
Posted January 28, 2026
Retell AI Adds Features to Its Call Center Platform
Upgraded Retell AI voice platform enables call centers to deploy infinite AI sales and support agents across voice, chat, email, and SMS. (Featured on
DestinationCRM.com
.)
Posted January 28, 2026
CommBox Introduces Era AI Voice
CommBox Era resolves customer conversations end to end, integrates with core systems, and operates within strict enterprise guardrails.
Posted January 27, 2026
Dialpad Partners with TD Synnex
Partnership expands Dialpad's AI-first communications platform to TD SYNNEX's global network of technology partner
Posted January 23, 2026
Google Cloud Launches Gemini Enterprise for Customer Experience
Gemini Enterprise for Customer Experience is an agentic solution to bring shopping and customer service together. (Featured on
DestinationCRM.com
.)
Posted January 13, 2026
Five9 Expands Google Cloud Partnership
Five9 launches joint enterprise customer experience AI solution with Google Cloud. (Featured on
DestinationCRM.com
.)
Posted January 13, 2026
Mutare Launches Voice Traffic Score for Webex by Cisco
Mutare's Voice Traffic Score (VTS) provides real-time call reputation intelligence with Webex by Cisco.
Posted January 06, 2026
Lorikeet Launches Voice 2.0
Voice 2.0 is Lorikeet's conversational intelligence platform for high-complexity support. (Featured on
SpeechTechMag.com
.)
Posted December 16, 2025
Vonage Integrates with Salesforce's Agentforce Voice
Vonage's AI-powered voice solution for virtual and human agents brings next-gen intelligence to customer engagement. (Featured on
SpeechTechMag.com
.)
Posted December 16, 2025
NexTalk Integrates with Amazon Connect, Genesys, NiCE, and SharpenCX
Users of cloud contact center software from NiCE, Genesys, Amazon Connect, and SharpenCX can now add accessibility technology from NexTalk.
Posted December 12, 2025
Cresta Launches Agent Operations Center
Cresta's Agent Operations Center helps companies manage the human-AI hybrid workforce for customer experience.
Posted December 09, 2025
Vonage Expands AWS Collaboration
Vonage launches its business communications and contact center solutions in AWS Marketplace.
Posted December 05, 2025
Kustomer Introduces AI Assistants
AI automation and observability assistants give CX teams instant clarity into their workflows and AI behavior.
Posted December 05, 2025
Implement the Intelligent Front Door to Transform Customer Engagement
IFD is not just a technological upgrade; it's a strategic move toward holistic, data-driven customer engagement.
Posted December 05, 2025
SharpenCX to Merge with Ytel
Merger brings together SharpenCX's intelligent agent technology with Ytel's outbound customer experience capabilities. (Featured on
DestinationCRM.com
.)
Posted December 02, 2025
Zendesk Partners with AWS
Collaboration brings together Amazon Connect voice capabilities, conversational analytics, and sentiment analysis with Zendesk Contact Center. (Featured on
DestinationCRM.com
.)
Posted December 02, 2025
3CLogic Deepens Partnership with ServiceNow
Latest partnership will leverage 3CLogic's Communication Platform as a Service (CPaaS) and Contact Center as a Service (CCaaS) infrastructure to complement ServiceNow's AI Experience. (Featured on
DestinationCRM.com
.)
Posted December 02, 2025
Fluents.ai Launches Fluents Omnichannel
Fluents Omnichannel fuses voice, SMS, and webchat in one context-aware platform. (Featured on
DestinationCRM.com
.)
Posted December 02, 2025
AVOXI Upgrades Proactive Service
AVOXI's Proactive Service offering is a diagnostic solution to preemptively identify and fix global voice channel vulnerabilities. (Featured on
DestinationCRM.com
.)
Posted November 20, 2025
8x8 Adds AI, Omnichannel Enhancements
New capabilities across the 8x8 Platform for CX help teams resolve issues on first contact, streamline follow-ups, and work more efficiently. (Featured on
DestinationCRM.com
.)
Posted November 20, 2025
ASAPP Launches Customer Experience Platform (CXP)
ASAPP's CXP turns every customer interaction into governed, intelligent action by unifying interactions, systems, and data across voice and digital channels.
Posted November 19, 2025
Five9 Expands Genius AI
New AI capabilities enhance Five9's routing, quality management, and analytics.
Posted November 19, 2025
Self-Service and Live Chat to Be Top Service Tech by 2027
Phone and email will sharply decline in value in favor of digital channels, Gartner finds. (Featured on
DestinationCRM.com
.)
Posted November 18, 2025
UJET Acquires Spiral
The UJET deal with Spiral adds foundational building blocks for conversational AI, predictive analytics, and business intelligence. (Featured on
DestinationCRM.com
.)
Posted November 18, 2025
Teneo.ai Launches Teneo 8 Voice AI Platform
Teneo 8 offers scalable AI agents for hybrid AI, governance, and real-time voice automation. (Featured on
DestinationCRM.com
.)
Posted November 18, 2025
Mitel Introduces Mitel CX 2.0
Mitel CX 2.0 unites AI-powered automation, flexibility, and control to elevate every touchpoint while ensuring security and data sovereignty. (Featured on
DestinationCRM.com
.)
Posted November 18, 2025
RingCentral Adds Customer Engagement Bundle for RingEX
RingCentral's Customer Engagement Bundle introduces advanced queue management and SMS shared inbox capabilities for lightweight contact centers.
Posted November 05, 2025
8x8 Makes Workforce Management Native in Every Contact Center Seat
8x8 WFM is now a standard capability in every 8x8 Contact Center package. (Featured on
DestinationCRM.com
.)
Posted November 05, 2025
RingCentral Unveils Agentic Voice AI Communications Suite and Ring WEM
RingCentral has expanded its AI Receptionist and unveiled an AI Virtual Assistant (AVA), AI Conversation Expert (ACE), and Workforce Engagement Management suite. (Featured on
DestinationCRM.com
.)
Posted November 04, 2025
WestCX Launches Engage
WestCX's new Engage, LinguaAI, and Journey Insights solutions bring multilingual, measurable, and human-like communication to healthcare organizations. (Featured on
DestinationCRM.com.)
Posted November 04, 2025
Tata Communications Partners with NiCE
Alliance brings together Tata Communications Kaleyra and NiCE CXone Mpower platforms to deliver seamless, AI-powered customer experiences at scale. (Featured on
DestinationCRM.com
.)
Posted October 30, 2025
Afiniti Partners with Five9
Afiniti delivers personalized customer interactions with Five9's Cloud Contact Center Platform
Posted October 23, 2025
Dialpad and Verint Partner on Workforce Management Integration
Dialpad and Verint bring real-time schedule adherence and full workforce visibility in one integration.
Posted October 23, 2025
Talkdesk Adds Agentic AI to Copilot and Integrates with Databricks
New agentic AI capabilities powered by Talkdesk Customer Experience Automation empowers human agents to request real-time guidance and resolve issues faster and more confidently. (Featured on
DestinationCRM.com
.)
Posted October 22, 2025
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