LiveWorld Platform integrates smart automation and human agents for real-time customer service at scale.
Posted July 31, 2017
Self-configurable builder enables companies to develop their own chatbots in a few simple steps.
Posted June 21, 2017
Interactions, a provider of intelligent virtual assistants for customer care, announced its push into social platforms this week with the acquisition of Digital Roots. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.
Posted May 23, 2017
ServiceNow has updated its Customer Service Management solution with ServiceNow Communities, a social app that provides each user with a personalized experience.
Posted May 10, 2017
To say that United Airlines has been in hot water recently is an understatement. Now, United Airlines has rolled out 10 new customer service policies in response to some of the recent incidents, but one customer service expert argues they're simply not enough.
Posted April 28, 2017
Vee24's Version 10 platform release offers chatbots, intelligent routing, metrics, and analytics.
Posted April 28, 2017
Chatbots are promising, but many of them simply don't add business value from a customer service perspective—yet. With the introduction today of the Pega Intelligence Virtual Assistant, Pegasystems is setting out to accelerate the process by offering artificial intelligence extenders for platforms including Facebook, Slack, and others.
Posted April 18, 2017
Just a few months after revamping its Direct Messages, Twitter added a new feature to the offering: the location request feature, enabling businesses to ask customers they're conversing with to share their location via direct message.
Posted April 07, 2017
A new agent interface and Skylight feature facilitates interactions between agents and customers.
Posted March 22, 2017
The acquisition of HipMob furthers Conversocial's shift toward the convergence of social, messaging, web chat, and in-app messaging.
Posted March 22, 2017
8 mistakes companies make when dealing with customers on social media.
Posted March 03, 2017
There's a science behind human connection and the emotional aspects of customer interaction, but not all engagements are appropriate for humans versus machines.
Posted February 21, 2017
Aspect Software has launched its new cloud-based customer engagement center, Via, available immediately in the United States, Australia, and New Zealand. Via will be available to customers in Europe in the second quarter. Aspect first previewed the Via product last May.
Posted February 01, 2017
A comprehensive industry solution lets retail banks collect and act on customer feedback. (Featured on SpeechTechMag.com.)
Posted January 17, 2017
Conversocial CROWDS enables businesses to integrate brand ambassadors into wider customer service efforts through peer-to-peer resolution,
Posted December 07, 2016
Social media is an important aspect of marketing and communication for many organizations, but it is also becoming a necessary channel for providing top-tier customer service. To support customers' desire to take to social media when they need help, Verint Systems has enahnced its Social Engagement solution.
Posted December 06, 2016
Twitter today introduced two new features to help companies create better conversational experiences with customers via Direct Messages on the social media site.
Posted November 01, 2016
Context is just as important as content when keeping track of what customers have to say on social media.
Posted September 13, 2016
Using social media as a customer service tool, companies can expect huge revenue increases.
Posted September 02, 2016
inContact, a provider of cloud contact center and workforce optimization software, has partnered with HelpSocial, providers of an integration platform for customer care and social media, to bring social media customer care abilities to contact center agents using inContact's Open Cloud Platform.
Posted August 11, 2016
Acquiring Airwoot will expands Freshdesk's capabilities in social customer service.
Posted April 13, 2016
The launch of Channel API includes initial integration partnerships with social monitoring and analytics solutions providers Synthesio and Brandwatch.
Posted April 05, 2016
With the right metrics, social customer service teams can provide better service.
Posted March 29, 2016
Effective social customer support requires personalization, dedicated resources, and an investment in agent performance improvements.
Posted March 15, 2016
Social customer service platform providers partner on a solution that combines online forums with peer-to-peer resolution across social channels. (Featured on DestinationCRM.com.)
Posted March 14, 2016
Microsoft today announced that the spring wave of Dynamics CRM 2016 will be available to online customers in the second quarter of this year. The new release will bring a number of changes, including the addition of field service capabilities and portal solutions.
Posted March 02, 2016
Amazon Web Services (AWS) has named Interactive Intelligence Group, a provider of cloud services for customer engagement, collaboration, and communications, as an Advanced Technology Partner in the AWS Partner Network (APN).
Posted March 01, 2016
In the world of social media, companies need to respond to customers, and they can't afford to wait.
Posted February 26, 2016
Directly's certified experts enables companies to send a high volume of customer questions to their expert users for fast resolution.
Posted February 24, 2016
Wise.io, a provider of machine learning applications to help enterprises provide better customer experiences, today launched Wise Auto Response, an intelligent auto reply functionality for customer support organizations. Using machine learning to understand the intent of incoming tickets and determine the best available response, Wise Auto Response automatically selects and applies the appropriate reply to address customer issues without involving agents.
Posted January 27, 2016
Companies must equip their contact centers to handle digital and omnichannel customer inquiries and provide a means for self-service support.
Posted January 22, 2016
New management tools, workflow enhancements, and a community-as-a-service deployment model round out the enhancements to Telligent Community. (Featured on DestinationCRM.com.)
Posted January 20, 2016
Consumer trends give small and midsized businesses new tools to drive better customer service.
Posted December 16, 2015
The rise in digital channels requires contact centers to address new metrics for agent performance.
Posted December 04, 2015
With contact center metrics, it's time to look beyond the phone call and into the digital customer experience.
Posted December 01, 2015
Bright Pattern updated its call center software that extends Zendesk's cloud-based customer service platform with omnichannel cloud contact center capabilities.
Posted November 18, 2015
Social media offers organizations a world of customer insights and performance improvement opportunities. However, a misguided strategy is enough to turn it all into failure.
Posted November 06, 2015
Social media is really here as a customer contact channel. Here's what the new service world is going to look like.
Posted October 23, 2015
Satisfaction Prediction uses machine learning to identify which customer interactions are at risk of turning bad in real time.
Posted October 07, 2015
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Bright Pattern has added the WeChat messenger to its omnichannel call center platform.
Posted September 09, 2015
Vocalcom Social Care integrates with Twitter's new data products for customer care.
Posted September 03, 2015
The integrated technology platform connects customers' digital journeys to the contact center.
Posted August 21, 2015
Partnership complements 3CLogic's contact center solution with social media software to support multichannel customer service.
Posted June 18, 2015
MiContact Center Solidus offers improved multichannel customer experience from single agent desktop, announces partnership with Teleopti.
Posted June 17, 2015
Solutions drives personalized interactions that improve customer engagement and patient health outcomes.
Posted May 28, 2015
Aer Lingus and other clients use solution to expand social customer engagement.
Posted May 20, 2015
Organization to hire thousands of agents, create customer-centric culture.
Posted May 07, 2015