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SuccessKPI Integrates with Cisco Webex Contact Center
New integration combines Webex Contact Center with SuccessKPI's workforce engagement management platform to optimize performance across human and AI agents.
Posted July 17, 2026
PWC US Partners with OpenAI on Agentic Solutions
New solutions from PWC US and OpenAI combine advanced AI with industry expertise to deliver personalized, efficient, and scalable customer experiences. (Featured on
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.)
Posted July 17, 2026
Verint Comes Away With Powerhouse Status After Merger, CEO Says at Engage 2026
Verint CEO David Rhodes told conference attendees that Verint continues to gain steam under Thoma Bravo and unveiled agentic AI capabilities.
Posted June 24, 2026
8x8 Introduces AI Routing
8x8 AI Routing connects customers to the best expert across channels and the entire organization.
Posted June 24, 2026
Krisp Launches Voice Security and Speech Analytics
Krisp's new capabilities cover 100% of calls for quality and compliance, and protect every live interaction against synthetic caller fraud, real-time social engineering, and agent identity fraud.
Posted June 24, 2026
CallMiner Partners with PossibleNOW
Partnership enables companies to scale automation while meeting industry compliance standards. (Featured on
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.)
Posted June 23, 2026
CallMiner Adds AI to Real-Time Agent Performance and Customer Experience
Agentic AI guidance expands CallMiner RealTime, delivering on-demand, context-aware support to contact center agents during live customer interactions. (Featured on
DestinationCRM.com
.)
Posted June 22, 2026
Medallia to Change Ownership...Again
Medallia to transfer ownership to a group led by Blackstone, Apollo, and FSK and reposition itself. (Featured on
DestinationCRM.com
.)
Posted June 18, 2026
Alvaria Integrates with Parloa
Alvaria and Parloa are teaming up for compliant, high-performance AI agents for CX.
Posted June 18, 2026
NiCE World 2026 Concludes with AI Agent Demonstrations
As AI's capabilities grow, the impact on the contact center will be even more transformational, conference speakers conclude. (Featured on
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.)
Posted June 11, 2026
NiCE and Customers Prove Success from AI at NiCE World
NiCE World speakers highlight returns from AI when many other companies are struggling to find ROI. (Featured on
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.)
Posted June 10, 2026
AI Use Is on the Rise, with Good Reason, NiCE Speakers Stress
During NEXUS pre-conference talks delivered as part of NiCE World 2026, speakers pointed to serious gains from AI. (Featured on
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.)
Posted June 09, 2026
BluIP and NiCE Deliver Unified UCaaS + CCaaS Solution
Integrated cloud PBX and contact center platform extends AI, analytics, and operational intelligence across the organization.
Posted June 09, 2026
8x8 Launches 8x8 Pulse and 8x8 Resolve
8x8 Pulse provides conversational intelligence, while 8x8 Resolve provides critical communication management. (Featured on
DestinationCRM.com
.)
Posted June 03, 2026
Modulate Expands Velma with Voice-Native Real-Time Conversation Intelligence
Modulate has released its flagship Velma model through its developer API. (Featured on
SpeechTechMag.com
.)
Posted June 03, 2026
Zendesk Support Assistant for Microsoft 365 Now Available on Microsoft AppSource
Zendesk Support Assistant integrates Microsoft Agent 365 to support employees through AI-powered workflows inside Microsoft Teams, Outlook, Word, and more.
Posted June 03, 2026
Broadvoice Launches GoEngage and AI Analyst
Broadvoice GoEngage and AI Analyst bring voice AI and conversational insights to GoContact.
Posted June 03, 2026
Afiniti Launches Orchestrator, Intelligence, and Agents
Afiniti Agents, Afiniti Orchestrator, and Afiniti Intelligence join Afiniti Pairing in one platform to help contact centers manage support issues and protect customer lifetime value.
Posted May 28, 2026
Capacity Launches AI Analytics Assistant
Capacity's AI Analytics Assistant lets users ask natural language questions about their Capacity data and generate executive-ready insights, charts, and reports.
Posted May 26, 2026
Why Contact Center AI Keeps Giving Wrong Answers (And the Three Documentation Fixes That Restore Accuracy)
Most contact center AI failures trace back to stale source content in the help center, not to the model, and three operational fixes restore accuracy without buying anything new.
Posted May 20, 2026
NiCE Partners with ServiceNow
Joint solution pairs capabilities from NiCE CXone with ServiceNow Customer Service Management.
Posted May 08, 2026
SoundHound AI Introduces OASYS
SoundHound's OASYS helps businesses create conversational AI agents that will build and continually improve themselves across digital or physical channels.
Posted May 05, 2026
8x8 Extends 8x8 Platform for CX with AI, Analytics, Authentication, and Integrations
8x8 Platform for CX now includes capabilities for artificial intelligence agent development, analytics, mobile authentication, and managing front-line teams.
Posted May 05, 2026
3CLogic Expands Voice AI Hub
3CLogic's latest updates to Voice AI Hub include new outbound voice AI agents, multimodal voice AI capabilities, and automated AI agent evaluations. (Featured on
DestinationCRM.com
.)
Posted April 28, 2026
AI Empowerment in Practice – Spotlight on Retail
ALDO Group improved its customer experiences with Five9.
Posted April 17, 2026
The CCaaS Opportunity Ahead: How Vendors Can Lead the Next Wave
Contact center-as-a-service solutions remain a core platform, but their roles are evolving. (Featured on
DestinationCRM
.)
Posted April 15, 2026
UJET Launches Google Cloud CCaaS by UJET
Partnership delivers Google Cloud CCaaS and Gemini Enterprise for Customer Experience through AVANT's Global Network of Trusted Advisors.
Posted April 13, 2026
Modulate Launches Velma Deepfake Detect
Modulate's Velma Deepfake Detect enables full-call deepfake detection at production scale.
Posted April 01, 2026
The Top Customer Service Trends and Technologies for 2026: Customer Service Is Getting Supercharged
AI is opening new doors for contact center agents, managers, and customers. (Featured on
DestinationCRM.com
.)
Posted April 01, 2026
Cyara Launches Agentic Testing
Cyara's new voice agent testing and AI governance modules deliver continuous validation for autonomous CX. (Featured on
DestinationCRM.com
.)
Posted March 31, 2026
Zendesk Acquires Forethought
Forethought deal enables Zendesk to advance its resolution platform with self-improving AI agents. (Featured on
DestinationCRM.com
.)
Posted March 31, 2026
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
Amazon Connect Introduces AI-Powered Manager Assistance
With Amazon Cionnect's new AI Assistant, contact center managers can query systems for improved oversight.
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
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
Calabrio Launches Omni Agent Intelligence
Calabrio Omni Agent Intelligence for Calabrio ONE unifies quality and performance across human and AI agents. (Featured on
DestinationCRM.com
.)
Posted January 15, 2026
Speech Analytics Market Poised for Strong Expansion Through 2032
Polaris Market Research projects the global speech analytics market to reach $11.452 billion by 2032. (Featured on
SpeechTechMag.com
.)
Posted January 12, 2026
CallTrackingMetrics Rebrands to CTM
CallTrackingMetrics' name change reflects a shift from a call analytics provider to a platform built to interpret and optimize every customer conversation across all channels. (Featured on
DestinationCRM.com
.)
Posted January 12, 2026
Kustomer Expands Post-Purchase Support with Narvar App Integration
Kustomer customers can now resolve "Where is my order?" and "Where is my refund?" requests with real-time order, shipping, and returns data inside a single view. (Featured on
DestinationCRM.com
.)
Posted December 17, 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
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
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
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
Rethinking CX Metrics in the AI Era
The numbers that mattered yesterday won't get us where we need to go tomorrow. AI gives us the data, speed, and insight to finally align CX metrics with customer and business reality.
Posted October 31, 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
HGS Launches Interaction Intelligence
HGS Interaction Intelligence enables companies to analyze nearly 100 percent of interactions across channels. (Featured on
DestinationCRM.com
.)
Posted October 28, 2025
NiCE Cognigy Launches AI Ops Center
NiCE Cognigy's new AI command center delivers real-time control, visibility, and assurance to keep enterprise AI Agents always-on and trusted. (Featured on
DestinationCRM.com
.)
Posted October 17, 2025
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