Author: Geoff Spick

Leaders and Experts Speak Out on the Amazon AWS Outage

Having seen the real-world impact of Amazon’s AWS outage stretching to smart beds, games, business apps and beyond, the industry big wigs across vendors, CX and end users are chipping in with their views and advice. Avaya’s CEO, Patrick Dennis,...

“My Bed Won’t Tilt!” Lessons of the Amazon AWS Outage for Customer Experience

Among the gnashing of teeth and mockery on X (Twitter), one of the few services not affected by Amazon’s massive outage, “My bed won’t tilt” isn’t one of the complaints we were expecting to see in relation to yesterday’s Amazon...

Gartner’s Top 10 Strategy Tech Trends Hinge on AI and Impact CX

Research firm Gartner’s analysts have been playing with their crystal ball for a look into tomorrow’s must have tech features. In a move that will surprise no one, the latest list of technology trends for 2026, directly or indirectly, rely...

ArvatoConnect Statistics Highlight UK Digital Growth and Deficit Risks

Digital transformation remains the ongoing objective of many UK companies, and acts a strand of hope for many firms seeking to grasp the benefits of AI. A fresh report by ArvatoConnect finds that private sector digital transformation is growing at...

IDC Delivers A MarketScape for European CCaaS

The global market is never a level playing field for contact centres. Even the European theatre has many variables and niches that make it a hard landscape to judge for buyers. Enter IDC with the research brand’s first European-focused CCaaS...

The UK Customer Experience Awards 2025 Rocks Wembley

Thursday, London. Above the hallowed turf at Wembley Stadium, the Awards International team were busy preparing for the 16th edition of the UK Customer Experience Awards, while watching the pitch being set for the weekend’s NFL clash between the Jacksonville...

Dreamforce 2025 Delivers Agentforce 360 and New Slack

Salesforce’s Dreamforce event is live in San Francisco this week with a raft of new product announcements as it delivers the agentic enterprise with Agentforce 360. The primary changes for Agentforce 360, the fourth major version of the product, deliver support...

Voice-Based AI Interaction Could Upgrade Employee Engagement

Do you talk to your AI, yet? For a world that got used to smart home speakers and smartphones with voice assistance, there’s still remarkably little feedback on how many users happily chat to their augmented AI buddies, either at...

UKCXA Finalist, Overclockers UK Highlights Microsoft Copilot and PC Hardware

Looking through the list of UK Customer Experience Award finalists, one name popped out from among the list of B2B giants, banks, telcos and other luminaries. Overclockers UK appeals, largely to my early career as a video game/PC tech journalist....

Cisco’s AI Readiness Index 2025 Reports “Mind the Gap”

The Cisco AI Readiness Index 2025 is out now, showing a widening gap between AI ambition and actual readiness. This survey of 8,000 global AI leaders, highlights two major trends shaping enterprise AI: AI Agents: 83% of companies plan to deploy...