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AI revenue grew 68% year over year, and the company's AI now accounts for 13% of total subscription revenue, up from 8% a year ago.
Author: Matt Vartabedian
Posted: May 1, 2026, 5:27 pm
As AI-generated assets and workflows infuse collaborative platforms, the issue of unowned work is growing across the enterprise.
Author: Terri Coles
Posted: May 1, 2026, 12:15 pm
Context from data and AI agent activity spins a flywheel that generates still more context, Microsoft CEO said.
Author: Matt Vartabedian
Posted: May 1, 2026, 12:04 pm
Most businesses use AI to backfill capacity as agents leave, while one-third are cutting staff because of AI.
Author: Matt Vartabedian
Posted: April 30, 2026, 12:41 pm
The most effective AI training programs need clear ownership, and as of now, enterprise leaders are unclear who should take the lead on training.
Author: Matt Vartabedian
Posted: April 30, 2026, 12:36 pm
Amazon Connect is now the agentic AI-powered foundation for three new solutions and one familiar contact center offering.
Author: Matt Vartabedian
Posted: April 29, 2026, 4:15 pm
Communication and productivity apps collect and share employee data, including personal financial information, Incogni report finds.
Author: Hannah Warfel
Posted: April 29, 2026, 11:38 am
The companies' integration enables AI agents and automation workflows to access structured and unstructured data while maintaining governance and visibility.
Author: Hannah Warfel
Posted: April 28, 2026, 4:20 pm
The AI meeting assistant retools with Conversational Knowledge Engine, adding support for MCP, a revamped chat interface and desktop app.
Author: Matt Vartabedian
Posted: April 28, 2026, 1:48 pm
eHealth's Alice voice agent handled calls during the peak season for healthcare insurance enrollment and garnered a majority of “exceptional” satisfaction ratings.
Author: Beth Schultz
Posted: April 27, 2026, 4:32 pm
Microsoft is crafting a connected CX framework across the customer lifecycle with its new offerings spanning sales, customer insights and contact center.
Author: Sheila McGee-Smith
Posted: April 27, 2026, 3:00 pm
As enterprise execs increasingly bet their careers on AI rollouts, ServiceNow’s open platform approach may help them hedge their bets.
Author: Matt Vartabedian
Posted: April 24, 2026, 5:45 pm
According to Cloudera's research, 80% of organizations have problems with data access. That will hurt future AI implementations.
Author: Hannah Warfel
Posted: April 24, 2026, 5:16 pm
As AI becomes increasingly embedded in every layer of UC, the question isn’t whether lock-in will happen but how an organization will manage it.
Author: Terri Coles
Posted: April 23, 2026, 12:35 pm
WestCX Orchestrate helps deliver messages and reminders to patients across systems pharmacies already have in place.
Author: Matt Vartabedian
Posted: April 23, 2026, 12:19 pm
Following the theme of data management, SSoT also needs standardized and accurate data to provide business results.
Author: Hannah Warfel
Posted: April 22, 2026, 3:16 pm
Beyond surveying contact center agents, UJET expanded its product portfolio, extended its Google partnership and bought an analytics firm.
Author: Matt Vartabedian
Posted: April 22, 2026, 1:59 pm
Sticking with a status-quo UCaaS platform might hinder an enterprise's bottom line. Recent research shows that UCaaS reassessment gets rewarded.
Author: Irwin Lazar
Posted: April 21, 2026, 4:26 pm
CEO Brad Birnbaum says Signals quickly gives human agents the full picture to better serve customers.
Author: Matt Vartabedian
Posted: April 21, 2026, 12:44 pm
As generative and agentic systems move into production, enterprises face growing exposure to hallucinations, data leakage and biased outputs without clear oversight frameworks.
Author: Nathan Eddy
Posted: April 20, 2026, 6:39 pm
An IBM report found 1 in every 5 data breaches is linked to shadow AI, opening enterprises to financial and legal risks.
Author: Hannah Warfel
Posted: April 20, 2026, 2:30 pm
CEO Alex Levin says CX teams can use a natural language interface to describe the AI agent they want and the Copilot AI agent will build it for them.
Author: Matt Vartabedian
Posted: April 17, 2026, 1:30 pm
Computer-Using Agents are the practical answer for everything that isn't covered by MCP or API integrations.
Author: Matt Vartabedian
Posted: April 17, 2026, 12:44 pm
It's time to send this enterprise platform to a nice farm upstate; CCaaS can do everything CRM does — and more.
Author: Dave Michels
Posted: April 16, 2026, 12:50 pm
NiCE CXone is now natively integrated with Epic, allowing human agents to stay within Epic when interacting with patients.
Author: Matt Vartabedian
Posted: April 16, 2026, 12:22 pm
The cybersecurity provider’s new capabilities help organizations protect data from AI use – sanctioned and unsanctioned.
Author: Hannah Warfel
Posted: April 15, 2026, 4:34 pm
Attrition rates are particularly high among younger employees, but it might not be because of AI.
Author: Matt Vartabedian
Posted: April 15, 2026, 12:25 pm
Adopting AI tools itself isn’t the challenge. It’s ensuring AI is used consistently, intentionally and in ways that reflect optimal workflows.
Author: Terri Coles
Posted: April 14, 2026, 4:52 pm
Recent research from Microsoft and WalkMe shows gaps between individual productivity and team-based work, plus diverging exec/worker experiences.
Author: Lisa Schmeiser
Posted: April 14, 2026, 4:47 pm
Built on the Model Context Protocol, the feature allows Anthropic Claude users to access Zoom meeting data and other insights.
Author: Matt Vartabedian
Posted: April 13, 2026, 7:45 pm
Agent assist can work, but design, delivery and how you manage knowledge make a huge difference — here’s one contact center leader’s experience.
Author: Matt Vartabedian
Posted: April 13, 2026, 12:18 pm
Poor data management and unclear semantics can affect AI adoption, but research shows managing data pipelines boosts bottom lines.
Author: Hannah Warfel
Posted: April 10, 2026, 4:32 pm
"Data quality" is often cited as a reason for agentic AI failures — but how do you tell good data from bad? Forrester analyst Jauesh Chaurasia on what makes for good data and why it matters.
Author: Hannah Warfel
Posted: April 10, 2026, 4:25 pm
The focus is shifting from deploying AI to making sure it delivers consistent, measurable outcomes in live environments.
Author: Nathan Eddy
Posted: April 9, 2026, 5:49 pm
By including AI in every product, ServiceNow continues its march toward becoming a “platform of platforms” through which enterprises can choose to roll out and manage agentic AI.
Author: Matt Vartabedian
Posted: April 9, 2026, 1:52 pm
A CSA report shows that unstructured data is growing, but management and security aren’t keeping up.
Author: Hannah Warfel
Posted: April 8, 2026, 4:50 pm
The CX platform provider debuts new AI agent testing capabilities and improved agent copilot features with its software release.
Author: Matt Vartabedian
Posted: April 8, 2026, 1:53 pm
Extending Box's work with unstructured data, the AI engine now in general availability searches a company's existing file library and heeds security parameters.
Author: Lisa Schmeiser
Posted: April 7, 2026, 3:40 pm
As a case of an AI agent targeting a user shows, AI harassment poses a more complex threat— and someone will be held accountable.
Author: Martha Buyer
Posted: April 7, 2026, 3:35 pm
As AI-powered CX proliferates, organizations should use it to amplify what human agents are good at — developing emotional connections with customers.
Author: Matt Vartabedian
Posted: April 6, 2026, 5:49 pm
Trying to balance customer expectations with business services has become a complex, fast-moving challenge; this quarterly benchmark will track what's going right and wrong.
Author: Robin Gareiss
Posted: April 6, 2026, 5:08 pm
They will likely be supplanted by platforms that integrate agentic AI capabilities, thus giving enterprises the ability to tightly control digital labor.
Author: Matt Vartabedian
Posted: April 3, 2026, 5:33 pm
The tone of recent announcements and initiatives reflect a not-so-subtle shift in how buyers view AI, and they want to understand its real world benefits.
Author: Irwin Lazar
Posted: April 3, 2026, 3:00 pm
Pricing based on outcome allows buyers to evaluate systems based on whether they can reliably deliver a result, not just support a process.
Author: Rob Hilsen
Posted: April 2, 2026, 2:00 pm
The contact center vendor also reported that 7 in 10 Genesys Cloud customers use its AI.
Author: Matt Vartabedian
Posted: April 2, 2026, 12:30 pm
Cyara’s platform update allows organizations to test traditional IVRs as well as agentic AI systems that don’t follow programmed call flows, inputs and outputs.
Author: Matt Vartabedian
Posted: April 2, 2026, 12:00 pm
While 79% of organizations face data-centric AI challenges, 92% are already using their data to train LLMs despite readiness concerns, Snowflake and Omdia found.
Author: Hannah Warfel
Posted: April 1, 2026, 5:20 pm
Just rebuilt in January, the AI agent now sports new  capabilities to further its move into what Gartner calls 'the AI workhub category.'
Author: Matt Vartabedian
Posted: April 1, 2026, 12:23 pm
More complicated issues such as contract or billing disputes or logistics snafus amplify the work of coordinating customer experience behind the scenes.
Author: Matt Vartabedian
Posted: March 31, 2026, 5:18 pm