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New data from Clutch Research confirms the importance of incorporating a human touch in all customer service interactions.
Posted April 16, 2019

The WhatsApp Business API is added to Freshworks Omniroute to bring online support to messaging users. (Featured on DestinationCRM.com.)
Posted April 16, 2019

Google and Salesforce aren't exactly strangers. The two have been working together since 2017 on various projects. But while most of their partnerships have been centered on sales and marketing activities, the companies are now doubling down on customer service.
Posted April 12, 2019

Genesys PureEngage, PureConnect, and PureCloud platforms are being integrated with Google Cloud Contact Center AI.
Posted April 11, 2019

Mitel's portfolio further leverages the Google Cloud Platform as well as advanced artificial intelligence and analytics capabilities.
Posted April 10, 2019

The integration aims to help users better manage digital customer interactions.
Posted April 09, 2019

Technical support provider teleNetwork changes its name to OneSupport to better reflect what it does. (Featured on DestinationCRM.com.)
Posted April 09, 2019

Talkdesk's partnership with Mitel has resulted in the launch of the MiCloud Connect CX cloud contact center solution. (Featured on DestinationCRM.com.)
Posted April 09, 2019

With its latest round of funding, the vendor sets out to tackle the task of unifying back-end business tools, including Salesforce, Google Drive, Slack, and others, and then extracting data from these channels to make it available as soon as an agent needs access to it.
Posted April 05, 2019

Bold360 now includes the latest in real-time contact center agent collaboration tools.
Posted April 03, 2019

Avaya is adding Nuance's AI-based conversational technologies to its Avaya IX Contact Center.
Posted April 02, 2019

Consumers and businesses that have trouble reaching Facebook for customer support may be surprised to find out that a possible reason for the delay is because the customer service team is busy solving issues for priority customers—employees' friends.
Posted March 29, 2019

Blue Panda's customer engagement platform now integrates with Microsoft Azure to improve the customer experience with artificial intelligence.
Posted March 27, 2019

UCx Contact Center delivers advanced features like customizable call routing, automatic call-backs, built-in call recording, and dynamic reporting.
Posted March 27, 2019

UJET has added text, chat, and feedback capabilities to streamline agent performance.
Posted March 27, 2019

The partnerships enhance the compliance infrastructure for financial firms' contact center and customer support operations. (Featured on DestinationCRM.com.)
Posted March 26, 2019

Multichannel customer service provider Conversocial has acquired customer service automation platform Assist in an effort to offer a hybrid customer service tool that integrates agents' and bots' capabilities.
Posted March 22, 2019

CXone Packages add voice, intelligent routing for Salesforce digital channels, embedded workforce optimization, and speech/text analytics.
Posted March 21, 2019

The new solutions aim to empower agents to focus more on the human aspect of service.
Posted March 19, 2019

Avaya's expanded integration enables greater use of artificial intelligence.
Posted March 19, 2019

But chatbot-based customer service provider Zingle envisions text messaging as a primary customer service channel, not a temporary solution.
Posted March 18, 2019

NICE's partnership with CallVu brings visual engagement in the front end with intelligent automation of back-end processes.
Posted March 14, 2019

The integration enables 8x8 to deliver a virtual agent that improves the contact center experience for customers and agents alike.
Posted March 12, 2019

Solution enables those in customer-facing roles to derive actionable insights via conversational, AI-based analytics features. (Featured on SpeechTechMag.com.)
Posted March 12, 2019

The artificial intelligence-powered text messaging system enables customers to communicate with the provider even if their initial call to a Sprint store goes unanswered.
Posted March 08, 2019

Agent AI brings real-time insights to human agents.
Posted March 05, 2019

The new release is designed to allow contact centers to provide personalized and contextualized experiences in every conversation, regardless of channel or device.
Posted February 28, 2019

Conduent's collaboration with Microsoft expands the delivery of enterprise cloud offerings. (Featured on DestinationCRM.com.)
Posted February 26, 2019

The new company brings together several contact center services providers that fell under the Bertelsmann and Saham labels. (Featured on DestinationCRM.com.)
Posted February 19, 2019

SOC 2 certification means that AnswerNet's contact center technology is protected against data loss.
Posted February 19, 2019

Avtex grows its customer engagement and contact center services business with its acquisition of AVDS.
Posted February 19, 2019

In a new study, a majority of consumers say that customer service quality is a major factor in their shopping decisions.
Posted February 15, 2019

New capabilities improve interactions, workflows, agent and supervisor productivity, scalability, and security.
Posted February 11, 2019

Based in Denmark, customer service provider Dixa is setting out to build a "customer friendship-based" service platform that brings the same level of communication that consumers use to interact with each other to brand interactions.
Posted February 08, 2019

The enhancements include a beefed-up integration framework, improved speech analytics, and real-time dashboards for contact centers.
Posted February 05, 2019

In the America's Best Customer Service 2019 report compiled by Newsweek and Statista, Chick-fil-A beat out runner-up Sonic and Arby's, which came up third.
Posted February 01, 2019

The messaging app is rolling out three new features for brands to use through their desktop—quick replies, labels, and chat list filtering.
Posted January 25, 2019

Conversational IVR and BrightStart Apps come to the Bright Pattern Customer Experience Platform.
Posted January 25, 2019

The suite of new Freshchat features aims to help businesses build better relationships with prospects and customers. (Featured on DestinationCRM.com.)
Posted January 24, 2019

The integration enables organizations using Zendesk Support to talk to customers in more than 150 languages.
Posted January 22, 2019

One customer of the pet supplies e-retailer got a pleasant surprise when she left a negative review about a product sold on the company's site.
Posted January 18, 2019

The certification is awarded after a selective process and is only given to call centers that rank among the top 10 percent of companies that BenchmarkPortal—a research firm offering benchmarking, certification, training and consulting tools—evaluates.
Posted December 28, 2018

For toy manufacturers like Mattel, a turnaround might be coming thanks to its commitment to customer service in this critical fourth quarter.
Posted December 21, 2018

With Squelch, customer support agents receive actionable intelligence, at the moment they need it, from a variety of previously unknown or underutilized sources.
Posted December 19, 2018

Bright Pattern is making its omnichannel cloud contact center software available to VION Consulting customers.
Posted December 19, 2018

With live in-call texting, customers can exchange photos, videos, and screenshots with customer support agents while on a call.
Posted December 18, 2018

TechSee's AI-based video service leverages a combination of computer vision, augmented reality, and users' smartphone cameras to deliver tech support to customers.
Posted December 14, 2018

Agreement adds Genesys' PureConnect and PureCloud contact center platforms to Star Telecom's portfolio.
Posted December 12, 2018

The company's new holiday campaign is all about putting a positive spin on customer service during the busiest time of year.
Posted December 07, 2018

Agent-advocates can be your strongest means toward more loyal customers.
Posted December 07, 2018

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