With Einstein, Salesforce has taken huge steps to infuse its core, cloud-based CRM resources with an omnipresent Intelligent Assistant (IA).
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MyWave’s Geraldine McBride On the Value of Customers Taking Control
At this month’s Intelligent Assistants Conference in New York City, MyWave’s CEO and founder talked about how a customer-first strategy, built on trust, is enabled through the use of intelligent personal assistant technology. [VIDEO]
Solariat Acquisition brings Social Media Analytics into the Genesys Customer Experience Platform
Genesys has acquired the assets of social listening and analytics specialist Solariat for an undisclosed sum.
“Fear of Chatter”: The Implications of Virgin America’s Social Network-based Customer Care
Dreamforce has always had elements of a Danse Macabre (Dance of Death) when it comes to its views of contact centers in the future.
Reflections on SpeechTek 2012: Co-Location Lends New Contexts to Automated Speech
This year the transformation of SpeechTEK continued as conference organizer, InformationToday, Inc. (ITI), co-located three closely-related-but-loosely-coupled events at the Marriott Marquis Hotel in New York City.
Interactive Intelligence’s Interaction Mobilizer Addresses Major Headaches Surrounding Support of Mobile Customers
Interactive Intelligence (InIn) is taking a new approach to helping its corporate customers “go mobile.”
Spanlink and Convergys Partner to offer Cisco’s Collaboration Infrastructure “in the Cloud”
Spanlink and Convergys are joining forces to offer a comprehensive set of contact center solutions that leverage Cisco’s Customer Collaboration software, instantiated in Convergys’ cloud.
Virtual Hold Technologies, Now VHT, Focuses on “Finishing the Conversation”
Last week, we were briefed by VHT (the new brand Virtual Hold Technologies), which will be rolling out a new flagship platform, the Conversation Bridge.
Varolii Partners with Spoken to Support More Inbound Interactions
Varolii, a 13 year-old company that is the product of a merger between Par3 communications and EnvoyWorldWide), has added to more inbound services to its portfolio through a partnership with contact center productivity specialist Spoken Communications.
Research Report-Mobile Customer Care: New Paradigms and Practices
Mobile subscribers are using their smartphones and other mobile devices to take control of their interactions with the firms with whom they choose to do business. They’ve forced companies to form mobile strategies that must go far beyond simply offering a “mobile app” and range to providing the most effective, and natural, mobile user experience. Companies and their technology providers have responded in kind.