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By Hannah Warfel
Also, Amazon Bedrock announces new capabilities and Neat and Shure partner to combine their video/audio technologies.
Posted: April 26, 2024, 5:56 pm
By Zeus Kerravala
Now it’s time for Masarek and the team to execute consistently and turn their strategy roadmap into sales success
Posted: April 26, 2024, 3:38 pm
By Eric Krapf
The RTO battles may be in an uneasy truce, but there is reason for optimism that enterprises want to continue to improve the in-person meeting room experience
Posted: April 26, 2024, 3:29 pm
By Denise Munro
Three noteworthy, non-AI developments at the show are worth covering. Here they are.
Posted: April 25, 2024, 4:01 pm
By Matt Vartabedian
Five9’s CTO and Head of AI provides his thoughts on how contact center managers should focus on the business challenge they’re trying to solve rather than on the technological particulars of a Gen AI model.
Posted: April 24, 2024, 2:34 pm
By Irwin Lazar
The AI hype must translate into demonstrable business benefits.
Posted: April 23, 2024, 7:17 pm
By Prachi Nema
Collaboration hardware holds the potential to transform offices into hubs delivering superior employee experience.
Posted: April 22, 2024, 4:01 pm
By Eric Krapf
Employees want access to genAI tools – and they may not wait for a measured enterprise rollout to begin using those tools.
Posted: April 19, 2024, 4:59 pm
By Dave Michels
Though it exits UC, NEC’s UCaaS strategic alliance with Intermedia, which created UNIVERGE BLUE, continues.
Posted: April 19, 2024, 1:05 pm
By Matt Vartabedian
Gen AI news continued apace with releases from ASAPP, Zendesk, Kore.ai, boost.ai, Pega, Stravito and Zoom.
Posted: April 19, 2024, 12:46 pm
By Matt Vartabedian
Rejoice for all the time saved catching up with Recap summaries.
Posted: April 18, 2024, 7:05 pm
By Craig Durr
Google’s updates reflect its strategic vision to adapt to the changing dynamics of workplace technology, emphasizing efficiency, inclusivity, and security.
Posted: April 17, 2024, 6:43 pm
By Matt Vartabedian
Neat Bar Gen 2 designed for small- and medium-sized meeting spaces is now shipping.
Posted: April 17, 2024, 5:18 pm
By Tom Brannen
AI will live up to its hype and may very well avoid the “Trough of Disillusionment” thanks to its ability to improve itself.
Posted: April 16, 2024, 7:00 pm
By Hannah Warfel
Google improves Workspace, debuts Vertex AI Agent Builder and highlights several deployments, while Cresta launches new AI features for custom LLMs, Five9 enhances Zendesk integration, and Convoso launches ClearCallerID Pro.
Posted: April 12, 2024, 6:32 pm
By Eric Krapf
Will the principle continue to hold true that technology problems will find their own solutions?
Posted: April 12, 2024, 3:24 pm
By Melissa Swartz
Getting credits may not be easy, and reliability is only beneficial when there is good call quality.
Posted: April 11, 2024, 7:33 pm
By Dave Michels
For Generative AI to really improve, it will need to start thinking in a new way — if only it could think.
Posted: April 11, 2024, 12:45 pm
By Scott Murphy
AI solutions will deliver tangible business value in 2024 – so long as you identify what needs you expect AI to address and what success looks like.
Posted: April 10, 2024, 8:58 pm
By Nathan Eddy
As organizations navigate the balance between implementing cutting-edge AI technologies in meeting rooms, they will need to address potential concerns related to privacy, security, and user acceptance.
Posted: April 10, 2024, 6:40 pm
By Martha Buyer
It’s a bit like buying a car (sort of).
Posted: April 9, 2024, 6:18 pm
By David Maldow
If event hosts simply started using the tools that are available today, we could instantly enjoy a massive positive transformation in the world of conferences and trade shows.
Posted: April 8, 2024, 5:29 pm
By Eric Krapf
The show featured real-life examples of how to deploy artificial intelligence and get real value from it.
Posted: April 5, 2024, 1:51 pm
By Matt Vartabedian
Verint and CallTower tout expanded integrations and features with Webex, Salesforce adds Einstein to MuleSoft, and VirtualPBX debuts its Contact Center solution.
Posted: April 4, 2024, 10:05 pm
By Matt Vartabedian
The Internet browser is a common tool for knowledge workers. Access to Gen AI sites only takes a few keystrokes and some clicks – and that’s all it may take to expose personal or corporate data to threat actors.
Posted: April 4, 2024, 5:39 pm
By Nathan Eddy
Could AI enhance productivity to the extent employees might reduce one--or even two days--from the conventional five-day work schedule?
Posted: April 2, 2024, 5:15 pm
By Hannah Warfel
Also Q-SYS launches their Control for Zoom Room app and Lumen Technology expands their partnership with Zoom.
Posted: March 29, 2024, 8:16 pm
By No Jitter Staff
Ways to improve collaboration, productivity and employee experience were all part of the week’s show.
Posted: March 28, 2024, 8:15 pm
By Tom Nolle
Companies have lost control of the customer experiences they’re trying to manage – which is bad for both the customer and the enterprise. Taking charge of customer experience management starts with personalizing information.
Posted: March 28, 2024, 5:10 pm
By Matt Vartabedian
Twilio, Calabrio, Five9, GoTo and Vonage all debut new generative AI-powered capabilities.
Posted: March 27, 2024, 10:59 pm
By Lisa Schmeiser
Now that employees have weathered the remote-work transformation and are beginning to change their jobs as they incorporate Gen AI into different workflows, they’ll have to face another tech-driven challenge – seeing how changed productivity changes their jobs.
Posted: March 27, 2024, 7:51 pm
By Zeus Kerravala
GenAI Studio should enable organizations to customize general-purpose tools like OpenAI for use in the contact center with just a few clicks.
Posted: March 27, 2024, 7:43 pm
By Matt Vartabedian
NICE and CallMiner expand generative AI capabilities, Unifed Office offers sentiment analysis, RingCentral ups its RingCX game while others offer new devices and services for expanded connectivity, collaboration, and compliance.
Posted: March 27, 2024, 12:53 pm
By Matt Vartabedian
The Senior Vice President and General Manager of Cisco Collaboration highlighted the need for improving customer and employee experience via technology that works quietly and transparently in the background.
Posted: March 27, 2024, 2:47 am
By Lisa Schmeiser
A slew of AI-assisted updates to Microsoft Teams are meant to reduce the information-sorting and communicating tasks that often presage the actual work employees do.
Posted: March 27, 2024, 2:18 am
By Zeus Kerravala
The company’s new offering features AI-powered tools to better pinpoint issues that impact organizational efficiency and patient care.
Posted: March 26, 2024, 9:35 pm
By Zeus Kerravala
The new offerings emphasize Zoom’s expansion out of the video meeting platform space into AI-enhanced workplace productivity and contact center.
Posted: March 26, 2024, 7:07 pm
By Zeus Kerravala
Connections have always played an important role in the workplace. However, the underinvestment in office collaboration tools has led to the hybrid work mess that most companies see today.
Posted: March 26, 2024, 3:40 pm
By Matt Vartabedian
Amazon Connect, NICE, RingCentral, Zoom, Cisco and others roll out new devices and generative AI-powered capabilities.
Posted: March 26, 2024, 12:31 am
By Sheila McGee-Smith
Is Salesforce finally taking the plunge and entering the incredibly competitive contact center market? The answer is both yes and no.
Posted: March 25, 2024, 7:37 pm
By Robin Gareiss
Even customer service agents in the contact center often have upsell quotas. AI provides transformational value for boosting sales.
Posted: March 25, 2024, 1:06 pm
By Dave Michels
Solving unified communications, A-Z
Posted: March 25, 2024, 11:35 am
By Enrique Tan
Our analysts will be presenting multiple sessions delving into challenges and opportunities the post-pandemic work environment presents for employees and employers.
Posted: March 24, 2024, 8:57 pm
By Lisa Schmeiser
How to cultivate and encourage ambition, how to mentor and how to build a succession plan for all, how to build an equity strategy – these are just a few strategies we’ll be sharing at Enterprise Connect.
Posted: March 22, 2024, 4:56 pm
By Irwin Lazar
Learn about NG911 and its benefits at this year’s Enterprise Connect panel.
Posted: March 22, 2024, 4:34 pm
By Matt Vartabedian
Zoom launches Zoom Compliance Manager, powered by Theta Lake; LeapXpert and Kustomer launch Gen AI-powered assistants, AVOXI debuts its Cloud Service for global voice and Verint releases its TimeFlex Bot for agent scheduling.
Posted: March 22, 2024, 2:59 pm
By Eric Krapf
From the keynote stage to the show floor to the conference sessions, we’ll hear about the progress that vendors and enterprises are making towards implementing generative AI.
Posted: March 22, 2024, 1:58 pm
By Dave Michels
Service providers can still be disruptors in voice, but doing so likely means taking their own advice and moving to the cloud.
Posted: March 21, 2024, 6:38 pm
By Nicolas De Kouchkovsky
A new modern customer experience (CX) stack is emerging to allow organizations to better utilize data and provide improved customer experiences enterprise-wide.
Posted: March 21, 2024, 5:24 pm
By Melissa Swartz
Preview this pair of sessions rounding up “boots on the ground” perspectives from professionals who have migrated their UCaaS or voice systems.
Posted: March 21, 2024, 4:56 pm