Ventana Research recently announced its Market Agenda in the expertise area of Customer Experience. CX has emerged as a way for enterprises to demonstrate value and stand out in the marketplace. The technology underlying modern CX is transitioning from tools that are based on communication to those centered on data analysis and process automation. No technology has had as dramatic impact as quickly as Generative AI, which has upended the industry. It allows enterprises to build great...
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Topics:
Customer Experience,
Voice of the Customer,
Self-service,
Analytics,
Contact Center,
agent management,
Customer Experience Management,
Field Service,
AI & Machine Learning
Ventana Research recently announced its Market Agenda in the expertise area of Customer Experience. CX has emerged as a way for organizations to demonstrate value and stand out in the marketplace. The technology underlying modern CX is transitioning from tools that are based on communication to those centered on data analysis and process automation. This allows organizations to build great experiences and reap the benefits in customer loyalty and value. It also forces companies to reckon with...
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Topics:
Customer Experience,
Voice of the Customer,
CEM,
Self-service,
Analytics,
Contact Center,
agent management,
Customer Experience Management,
Field Service,
AI & Machine Learning
Any organization that relies heavily on a large labor force looks to automation to reduce costs, and contact centers are no exception. They handle interactions at such large scale that almost any effort to automate some part of the process can deliver measurable efficiencies. Two factors have ratcheted up attention on automating customer experience workflows: the dramatic expansion of digital interaction channels, and the development of artificial intelligence and machine learning tools to...
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Topics:
Customer Experience,
Analytics,
Data Integration,
Contact Center,
Data,
agent management,
data operations,
Customer Experience Management,
Field Service,
AI & Machine Learning,
customer service and support,
Digital Business,
Experience Management
When NICE acquired inContact in 2016, it began a transformation that saw it broaden its product offering and positioned itself to play a larger role in the contact center and customer experience industries. It was a prescient move, creating a firm that could supply end-to-end contact center functionality in the cloud. And it anticipated today’s market dynamic, in which NICE and its competitors are racing to define (and capitalize on) the post-contact center future.
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Topics:
Customer Experience,
Voice of the Customer,
Business Continuity,
Analytics,
Contact Center,
Data,
Digital transformation,
agent management,
Customer Experience Management,
Field Service,
AI & Machine Learning,
customer service and support,
Digital Business,
Experience Management
When artificial intelligence emerged from the labs and vendors started offering it as a component of their software, many contact-center buyers shied away from it. From their point of view, AI and machine learning tools were new, expensive, relatively untested and had an uncertain use case. This stance was understandable, as contact center professionals are traditionally expected to be risk-averse when deploying technology into their operations. Contact centers are, by design, supposed to be...
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Topics:
Customer Experience,
Voice of the Customer,
Analytics,
Contact Center,
agent management,
Customer Experience Management,
Field Service,
AI & Machine Learning,
customer service and support
Customer support operations increasingly rely on automation and complex workflow processes to reduce costs and improve experiences. Automation also allows organizations to make their service processes richer, incorporating information and staff from back offices, for example, or embedding conversational tools into contact center processes.
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Topics:
Customer Experience,
embedded analytics,
Analytics,
Contact Center,
natural language processing,
agent management,
Customer Experience Management,
Field Service,
Process Mining,
Streaming Analytics,
AI & Machine Learning,
customer service and support
Dialpad provides contact center and business phone services, a market that is in transition due to a convergence of technologies and business conditions.
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Topics:
Customer Experience,
Voice of the Customer,
Analytics,
Collaboration,
Contact Center,
natural language processing,
agent management,
AI & Machine Learning
Customer Service & Support (CSS) is a software segment that provides tools for tracking and resolving customer problems, primarily through contact centers. The segment has been mature for decades but today is reinvigorated by a new emphasis on workflows and automation. Vendors, like ServiceNow, have been innovative in developing new technologies for managing self-service and field service, and providing agents with contextually relevant information during interactions. The new technologies...
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Topics:
Customer Experience,
Voice of the Customer,
Analytics,
Contact Center,
Product Information Management,
Digital Commerce,
Subscription Management,
agent management,
AI & Machine Learning
Customer service and support (CSS) is a term with two meanings. Most generally, it refers to the functions of a contact center in handling post-sales customer inquiries that require some effort or action on the part of the business. More specifically, it refers to the elements of the software stack that facilitate those operations, primarily case tracking and trouble ticketing.
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Topics:
Customer Experience,
Analytics,
Contact Center,
agent management,
AI & Machine Learning