Tag: Customer Experience

Amazon’s Vulcan, AI-wary employers, and Houston’s shopping habits: the human-tech divide widens

Employers raise alarms over work readiness and AI use among young hires  Young people entering the workforce in 2025 are increasingly underprepared, with employers expressing concerns about inflated job applications aided by AI and a lack of essential soft skills. According...

GoTo Connect supercharges SMB communication with over 100 new features

GoTo has rolled out more than 100 new enhancements to its flagship product, GoTo Connect. Designed with small and midsize businesses (SMBs) in mind, these updates aim to streamline communication workflows, harness the power of artificial intelligence, and centralise all...

Optimum taps Google Cloud AI to reinvent the customer experience

Optimum has entered a multi-year partnership with Google Cloud to transform its customer experience using the latest in generative AI technologies. This collaboration will integrate AI-powered tools across every touchpoint of the customer journey—from websites and mobile apps to call...

Why beating the life admin drag starts with a fine balancing act

Life admin costs the UK billions. ArvatoConnect CEO, Debra Maxwell, says tech is part of the solution, but the real skill is striking the right balance between human and digital resources which are essential for better outcomes. According to think tank...

AWS takes contact centres to the cloud

AWS wants businesses to abandon their contact centre infrastructure and move it to the cloud. To win them over, it has rolled out Amazon Connect, a cloud-based contact centre product, which promises rapid setup, consumption-based pricing and AI-powered functionality. “Contact centres...

Skechers’ $9.4B buyout, aviation’s climate crisis, and the workplace loneliness epidemic

Skechers goes private in $9.4B deal amid tariff turmoilSkechers will be taken private by 3G Capital in a $9.42 billion buyout, the largest in footwear history. The move follows a sharp stock decline and mounting pressure from steep U.S. tariffs...

Pushing the innovation experience with Valtech

Almost every business will tell you they play a good CX game, with enhanced this, AI-powered that and elevated experiences flying into the ceiling. But the results inevitably tell a different story, especially around much-vaunted AI efforts. To dig into...

Shadow AI is undermining your CX strategy: Here’s how to fix it

Your agents are already using AI, even if it’s not the kind your company has approved. Tools like ChatGPT and other free assistants are fast, easy and available as Shadow AI with just a few clicks. So it’s no surprise...

From identity to experience: How Luckybeard architects CX through brand

Between the customer experience and any business lies the brand. This mythical, much-discussed and often maligned key piece of marketing power can get lost in the mix of modern business. Startups might think their brand is ready-baked on day one....

RingCentral unifies voice and CRM with new Salesforce integration

RingCentral has announced the launch of RingCX for Salesforce Service Cloud Voice, now available on Salesforce AppExchange. This powerful integration brings RingCentral’s voice and digital communication capabilities directly into Salesforce, allowing organisations to deliver faster, more intelligent, and personalised customer...