Insight Type: Industry News

Acquired Companies Include Aceyus, Spott, Humu, and Northpass; New Funding for India’s Kapture CX
Alex Gaw, Contributing Analyst at The Futurum Group, provides a roundup of the latest mergers-and-acquisitions stories in the CX space including moves by Five9, Payoneer, Perceptyx, and Gainsight.
Tying Together Data and the Customer Journey To Find the Pain Points
Sherril Hanson, Senior Analyst at The Futurum Group talks with Glassbox CMO Asim Zaheer and offers a view into how customer journey mapping and analysis helps get to the “why” in digital user behavior.
Partners Include Styli, Shiseido Americas, Nibav Home Lifts, Sourcewell, and Sweaty Betty
Alex Gaw, Contributing Analyst at The Futurum Group, provides a roundup of the latest customer wins for CX firms and their partners. In this edition, he examines initiatives from CX providers Freshworks, Amperity, Salesforce, Mitel, and mParticle.
Topics Include Poor Bank CX, CX Quality of US Brands, CX Use of Chatbots, and More
Alex Gaw, Contributing Analyst at The Futurum Group, provides a roundup of the latest CX research reports and survey findings from 10x Banking, Forrester, Gartner, Qualtrics, and Coveo. In this edition, he writes about how poor CX is causing banks to lose customers; the decline of CX quality among US brands for the second straight year; the difference in sentiment toward AI between business executives and rank-and-file employees; and the difficulty of Gen Z and other young digital natives in finding information relevant to their work.
Open Source Success Means Tying Open Source to Your Core Business at Every Step
Todd R. Weiss, senior analyst with The Futurum Group, shares his insights after talking open source with Intel’s Arun Gupta at Open Source Summit 2023, including what enterprise IT leaders must analyze about how their developers should participate in contributing code to open source development projects.
Partnerships Span the Globe to Include Mobicom, Pronovias, SpiceJet, Kubota Tractor Corporation, and Jack in the Box
Alex Gaw, Contributing Analyst at The Futurum Group, provides a roundup of the latest customer wins for CX firms and their partners. In this edition, he examines initiatives from CX providers Flytxt, Sprinklr, CleverTap, 8x8, and InMoment—and how their tie-ups benefit partners including Mobicom, Pronovias, SpiceJet, Kubota Tractor Corporation, and Jack in the Box.
Observability and Security Get Uplift From Generative AI
Steven Dickens, VP & Practice Leader at The Futurum Group shares his insights on the Dynatrace’s announcement of its Hypermodal AI capability, which is designed to improve observability and security in the digital age. By combining predictive, causal, and generative AI insights, Dynatrace Davis empowers businesses to automate issue identification and resolution, gain comprehensive security insights, and drive innovative improvements across their operations.
Topics Include CX/EX, Good or Bad CX, GigCX, Interacting with Brands, and Expert Video Consultations
Alex Gaw, Contributing Analyst at The Futurum Group, provides a roundup of the latest CX research reports and survey findings from NTT Limited, Qualtrics XM Institute, Limitless, MoEngage, IrisCX.
Tie-Ups Benefit Hawaiian Airlines, ABN AMRO, Admiral Insurance, and Homesmiths
Alex Gaw, Contributing Analyst at The Futurum Group, provides a roundup of the latest customer wins for CX providers and their partners. In this edition, he examines initiatives from CX firms Redpoint Global, NICE, Genesys, Air India, and MoEngage—and how their tie-ups benefit partners that include Hawaiian Airlines, ABN AMRO, Admiral Insurance, and Homesmiths.
Acquired Companies Include Seva, Qualtrics, Kaleyra, CentraCX, and 3 Birds
Alex Gaw, Contributing Analyst at The Futurum Group, provides a roundup of the latest M&A stories in the CX space. In this edition, he writes about new acquisition by Bloomfire of Seva; by Tata Communications of Kaleyra; by Cyara of CentraCX, and by DAS Technology of 3 Birds. This roundup also includes the completed acquisition of Qualtrics by investors Silver Lake and the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board.
The Futurum Group senior analyst Dave Raffo digs into survey and interview results from CISOs about their data management and data protection strategies.
New Partners Include Spurs Sports & Entertainment, Palace Resorts, OTD Americas, Southwest Transplant Alliance, and PacificSource Health Plans
Alex Gaw, Contributing Analyst at The Futurum Group, provides a roundup of the latest customer wins for CX providers and their partners. In this edition, he examines initiatives from CX firms Nextiva, Amperity, LiveVox, 8x8, and Quadient—and how their tie-ups benefit partners including Spurs Sports & Entertainment, Palace Resorts, OTD Americas, Southwest Transport Alliance, and PacificSource Health Plans.