Category: Customer Experience

Twilio and Microsoft team up to accelerate conversational AI for customer engagement 

Twilio has announced a strategic, multi-year collaboration with Microsoft to accelerate enterprise adoption of conversational AI by bringing together Twilio’s trusted engagement platform with Microsoft’s powerful Azure AI infrastructure.“Every interaction between a business and their customers is an opportunity to...

Press Ganey Forsta acquires InMoment

Press Ganey Forsta has announced the acquisition of InMoment, paving the way for a new era in experience intelligence.Bringing these two powerhouses together will enhance the combined company’s ability to capture and analyse experience data from different sources—including surveys, social...

Customer Experience World Games prepares for June launch

The Customer Experience (CX) World Games makes its return next month. The initiative, which started in 2020 in COVID, brings together a global taskforce of CX practitioners to solve customer experience dilemmas for charities. Around 250 people are expected to register...

Is human interaction the new inconvenience? According to Gen Z, it is

For younger consumers, convenience increasingly means avoiding people altogether. A new Consumer Pulse survey from GoDaddy reveals that Gen Z and Millennials are quietly rewriting the rules of commerce, and human interaction is becoming a casualty.In a poll of 1,500...

Consumer confidence shifts as demand for American-made and second-hand goods rises

According to a new Gartner survey, nearly half of U.S. consumers (47%) plan to increase their purchases of American-made products this year, highlighting a trend toward local sourcing and domestic support. The findings suggest a shift in consumer values, driven...

The future of payments is invisible, instant, and everywhere

There’s a moment Alexander Berrai recalls that sums up how far we’ve come in the world of payments.“Just a few years ago, you had to dig out your wallet, slot the card into the machine, type your PIN, and take...

NICE and AWS transform customer service delivery with AI and cloud

NICE has announced a strategic collaboration agreement (SCA) with Amazon Web Services (AWS) to transform customer service delivery through a combination of AI, cloud computing, and automation. As part of this partnership, NICE’s flagship AI-powered customer experience platform, CXone Mpower,...

Pega Predictable AI Agents transforms risky AI into reliable business workflows

Pegasystems has introduced Pega Predictable AI Agents, a new generation of AI-powered tools designed to give businesses control and transparency when integrating AI into their operations. Unlike many AI systems that rely on unpredictable, prompt-based agents, Pega’s solution prioritises structured,...

Billions are lost in translation due to poor localisation

Localisation can drive hundreds of thousands of dollars in revenue for global companies. Yet, most still don’t know how to do it properly.A new report from Lokalise reveals that 63% of companies say localisation accounts for up to half of...

TaskUs moves to automate CX at scale with new agentic AI partnerships

TaskUs is stepping further into the world of autonomous AI, announcing new partnerships with early-stage platform providers Decagon and Regal to accelerate the use of agentic AI in customer support.The partnerships expand on TaskUs’ recently launched consulting services for agentic...