Tag: Customer service

NICE and Deloitte Digital boost customer service with AI and automation

NICE has partnered with Deloitte Digital to transform customer service through end-to-end AI and service automation solutions. This collaboration focused on elevating customer service as a key business differentiator by enhancing interactions with advanced, AI-driven capabilities.“Our clients understand the need...

Maximus enhances government services with AI-powered customer experience   

Maximus has integrated Salesforce’s Agentforce into its Total Experience Management (TXM) platform to revolutionise public sector customer service. TXM, launched in 2024, is a cloud-based suite that aims to enhance agency missions and streamline government service delivery through advanced AI...

The art of listening to what’s not said: How I learned to detect customer frustration without a complaint

Have you left a restaurant mildly annoyed but still told the waiter it was “fine” before vowing never to return? That’s the quiet churn many businesses face daily, a trend that’s costing them more than they realise.I’ve worked in fast-paced...

Crescendo’s AI takes over customer service—with 99.8% accuracy

Crescendo, the AI firm that claims to blend artificial intelligence with human expertise, just turned up the heat in the customer service industry. With its latest expansion into agentic AI, the company says it can now handle more customer service...

TTEC Digital expands Verint integration for smarter customer service

TTEC Digital has expanded its strategic partnership with Verint, integrating Verint’s end-to-end CX Automation platform into its Google GCP cloud contact centre portfolio to enhance cloud-based customer service capabilities.As businesses increasingly turn to cloud technologies to optimise customer interactions, this...

IT vs Marketing compromising user experience decisions

The split between IT, marketing and customer-facing roles continues to rear its ugly head. Stats from Storyblok show that only 30% of IT leaders involve their marketing teams in user experience decisions. Those choices impact the customer experience, resulting in...

This week in CX: the digital revolution in travel, finance & customer service

Happy Friday! ‘This week in CX’ brings you the latest roundup of industry news.This week, we explore the evolving landscape of airport customer experience, the benefits and challenges of CX consulting, and how Zoom’s AI-driven workflows are transforming digital interactions.We’re also...

Greek airline Aegean goes AI cloud-hopping for first-class CX

Flying over 16 million passengers each year, Aegean is an airline on the way up. It brought itself out of Greek state ownership in 2023 and is expanding aggressively. Aegean has 8 Airbus A321 neo aircraft on order, plus new...

GoTo’s AI receptionist will take your call now

As the every-platform-has-to-have-AI battle heats up, more contenders arrive daily in our news inbox. Today’s turnout alone will see another half-dozen services unveiled in the coming weeks. Entering the fray today is GoTo, offering a Connect AI Receptionist, presumably for...

Intercom’s Fin voice AI agent heralds the end of support hold music

As a consumer, it is scary and annoying that I can call a technologically literate, often multi-billion dollar, business and have my ears wounded by crackly hold music. Worse, the kind that loops every 30 seconds for 10 minutes, before...