Category: Customer Experience

CXM Gets the Latest Views From Contact Centre Expo on Industry Trends and Ambitions

Contact Centre Expo is drawing to a close at London’s Excel Arena, but CXM was roving the show floor to capture the chat, insight and gossip from the key vendors, analysts and the movers and shakers of the call centre...

8×8 Makes the Case for Frictionless CX at Contact Centre Expo

At this year’s Contact Centre Expo in London, 8×8 began by laying out a simple premise: customers expect conversations that carry across channels seamlessly, without losing context or momentum. The session, “Frictionless by Design: Modernising Customer Experience with CPaaS”, was led...

Contact Centre Expo 25 Takes Off With A Strong AI Vibe

Excel, London is host to today’s (Wednesday 19th November) “Contact Centre Expo, co-located with Customer Experience Expo UK” event to give it its full name. The show is also on tomorrow if you fancy getting down to explore the latest...

Windows 11 Heads to the Agentic AI Future

Microsoft’s Ignite 2025 event is running this week with plenty of news across the company’s massive business software footprint. But back at the traditional heart of the company, the Windows OS is also changing. Windows 10 recently ended its working life...

Report Roundup: CX Vendors Cite Contextual Intelligence and Change Resistance as Key Trends for 2026

Tis the season for tech types, big brands and software planners to drag a crystal ball out and have a peek into their roadmap and conceptual futures. Personally, I wish they’d give it rest, so we could all have a...

Flipdish Turns the Phone Into a Profit Engine With Its New AI Agent

Restaurants know the phone can be both a lifeline and a bottleneck. Orders, questions, last-minute changes and customer requests all come through the same line. When staff are stretched, calls frequently go unanswered, and those missed moments translate directly into...

AI Is Resetting the Role of Research Inside Modern Organisations, Survey Reveals

Market research is entering a phase where influence inside organisations is no longer earned through tenure, experience, or process discipline. According to Qualtrics’ new 2026 Market Research Trends report, the real dividing line is whether teams have moved beyond basic...

The AI Bubble and What It Could Mean For the Customer Experience Market

The rush to build and deliver AI from tech giants, OS providers, customer experience vendors and the endless me-too players is a natural cause for business concern. But is it creating a tech-threatening bubble? The huge amounts of electrical energy,...

Freshworks Updates Freddy AI with New Vertical Agents

Launched back in the early summer, Freddy AI has been getting his feet under Freshworks users’ desks for some time now. Now Freshworks has announced major updates to both its CX and IT product lines. The broader push aims to...

What Happens When Insight Stops Sitting on a Shelf? Viasat Found Out

Behind Viasat’s gold win for Best Innovation in CX at the UK Customer Experience Awards 2025 is a simple but striking question: what happens when a company with thousands of insight reports finally unlocks all of them for every employee,...