Content Type: News

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....

US Retailer Giant Eagle Revamps Loyalty Scheme

Legacy loyalty systems are just one element of business that weigh heavily on grocers and most other retailers. They’re expensive to maintain (writes someone with a Nectar card with all the numbers rubbed off), slow to adapt, and rarely deliver...

Delta Talks Up Leading CX Among US Airlines

Having announced third-quarter operating revenue of $16.7 billion and operating income of $1.7 billion with an operating margin of 10.1% last week, Delta Air Line’s earnings call went into some detail on the customer experience improvements the airline continues to...

Why Payment Resilience is the New CX Advantage

Recent payment outages across some of the world’s most recognisable brands have left customers unable to pay in store or shop online, seriously undermining consumer trust. These disruptions highlight a growing CX problem: payment failures are not rare glitches but...

Medallia Research Talks Up Conversational Intelligence as the Future of CX

In a blizzard of research and reports this week, Medallia keeps up the pace of industry chatter with a new insight into “Conversational Intelligence: The New CX Advantage.” The report highlights how businesses are missing out on growth opportunities by...

Gartner Highlights the Most Valuable AI Use Cases for Customer Service

Gartner’s HR Symposium/Xpo series is kicking off in London today. Taking in stops at Florida and Sydney over the next few weeks. An invaluable resource for HR leadership teams to reimagine their strategies, nudged by Gartner’s research. There’s plenty of...

SAP Emarsys’ Customer Loyalty Index Shows Trend Loyalty is Here to Stay, Briefly

For every company that talks a good loyalty story, their hyper-focus on churn and pleading attempts to retention suggest that, even for confident brands, their concern over blind customer allegiance is growing. Data from SAP Emarsys’ only reinforces that notion....

Hubspot’s Spotlight Focuses on AI Project Delays and Roadblocks

The challenges of AI are manyfold; from worker over-enthusiasm, customer friction, legislative risks and operational issues. Hubspot’s latest survey of UK business leaders, captured during the latest Fall Spotlight analyis, reveals that while many are making plans for this AI-powered...