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Partnerships Benefit Revival Animal Health, NFP, and NEC
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,…
The Variety of Feedback Mechanisms Has Greatly Expanded but Not All Are Being Leveraged
Sherril Hanson, Senior Analyst at The Futurum Group, shares her thoughts on how two recently received paper surveys hit the mark (or did not)….
Partners Include Virgin Atlantic, Alamar Foods, and Belle Tire
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,…
Topics Cover Funding for Silicon Valley’s Gleen and Finland’s Viedobot as Well as Klaviyo’s Filing for a Proposed IPO
Alex Gaw, Contributing Analyst at The Futurum Group, provides a roundup of the latest CX funding activity for customer service startup Gleen and interactive video…
Topics Cover Small Businesses and CRM, US Shoppers and AI, and AI for the Modern Contact Center
Alex Gaw, Contributing Analyst at The Futurum Group, provides a roundup of new and recent CX research reports and survey findings from Zoho, SAP Emarsys,…
Partners Include Biotech Firm, Road Ranger, Kura, La-Z-Boy, and Almosafer
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,…
Acquired Companies Include Aivo, PowerReviews, Zevas, Horizn, and Hopin
Alex Gaw, Contributing Analyst at The Futurum Group, provides a roundup of the latest M&A news and examines new CX acquisitions by Engageware, 1WorldSync,…
Partners Include Department of Veterans Affairs, SaveMate, K&K Fashion, and Minerva CQ
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,…

Featured Insights

On this episode of The Six Five – On The Road, hosts Daniel Newman and Patrick Moorhead welcome Intel’s Anil Rao and Zscaler’s Ken Urquhart for a conversation on how Intel is making aggressive plans to offer software, security, and services to its customers with initiatives like Confidential Computing and more.
In These Tumultuous AI Times, Salesforce Can Be the AI Voice of Reason
Mark Beccue, Research Director at The Futurum Group, makes his case for Salesforce’s Marc Benioff to go to Washington as the voice of responsible AI.
On this episode of The Six Five – On The Road, hosts Daniel Newman and Patrick Moorhead welcome Intel’s Markus Flierl, Corporate VP, Intel Developer Cloud, SiteMana’s Peter Ma, and Prediction Guard’s Dan Whitenack, for a conversation on what makes Intel Developer Cloud unique.

Latest Research

In our latest research brief, done in partnership with Netcracker, we take a look at the Netcracker GenAI Solution and why it meets the challenges…
In our latest Lab Insight Report, Scalable Ransomware Protection: Analysis of VMware’s Cloud Disaster Recovery and Ransomware Recovery Service Offerings, done in partnership with VMware,…
In our latest research brief, SUSE and IBM Infrastructure Empowering Your Hybrid Cloud Journey — done in partnership with SUSE — we explore how IBM and…
In our latest white paper, Intel 4th Gen Xeon Scalable Processors Primed to Accelerate Data Center Performance and Capabilities, The Futurum Group’s Ron Westfall assess…

Latest Insights

On this episode of The Six Five – On The Road, hosts Daniel Newman and Patrick Moorhead welcome Intel’s Anil Rao and Zscaler’s Ken Urquhart…
In These Tumultuous AI Times, Salesforce Can Be the AI Voice of Reason
Mark Beccue, Research Director at The Futurum Group, makes his case for Salesforce’s Marc Benioff to go to Washington as the voice of responsible AI….
On this episode of The Six Five – On The Road, hosts Daniel Newman and Patrick Moorhead welcome Intel’s Markus Flierl, Corporate VP, Intel Developer…
Oracle Database@Azure Debuts Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Services To Simplify Cloud Migration, Multicloud Deployment, and Management
The Futurum Group’s Ron Westfall and Steven Dickens examine how Oracle and Microsoft are expanding their collaboration with Oracle Database@Azure, combining strengths for enhanced cloud…
CTERA Vault WORM Functionality Provides Immutability for Enhanced Resilience and Compliance
The Futurum Group’s Mitch Lewis and Krista Macomber share their insights on CTERA’s announcement of the CTERA Vault WORM immutability feature….
Firefly Exits Beta and Generative Credits and Price Hikes Are Announced
Keith Kirkpatrick, Research Director at The Futurum Group, covers the GA launch of Adobe Firefly, and discusses how Adobe’s price hikes strike a balance between…

NEWS BY INDUSTRY

Partnerships Benefit Revival Animal Health, NFP, and NEC
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 Algolia, RingCentral, and WalkMe.
The Variety of Feedback Mechanisms Has Greatly Expanded but Not All Are Being Leveraged
Sherril Hanson, Senior Analyst at The Futurum Group, shares her thoughts on how two recently received paper surveys hit the mark (or did not).
Partners Include Virgin Atlantic, Alamar Foods, and Belle Tire
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 Amperity, MoEngage, and UKG.
Topics Cover Funding for Silicon Valley’s Gleen and Finland’s Viedobot as Well as Klaviyo’s Filing for a Proposed IPO
Alex Gaw, Contributing Analyst at The Futurum Group, provides a roundup of the latest CX funding activity for customer service startup Gleen and interactive video provider Videobot, along with news of Boston-based Klaviyo filing for an IPO.
Topics Cover Small Businesses and CRM, US Shoppers and AI, and AI for the Modern Contact Center
Alex Gaw, Contributing Analyst at The Futurum Group, provides a roundup of new and recent CX research reports and survey findings from Zoho, SAP Emarsys, and Verint in collaboration with Five9.
Partners Include Biotech Firm, Road Ranger, Kura, La-Z-Boy, and Almosafer
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 Veeva, Forrester, Avaya, InMoment, and MoEngage.
Acquired Companies Include Aivo, PowerReviews, Zevas, Horizn, and Hopin
Alex Gaw, Contributing Analyst at The Futurum Group, provides a roundup of the latest M&A news and examines new CX acquisitions by Engageware, 1WorldSync, ResultsCX, Inbenta, and RingCentral.
Partners Include Department of Veterans Affairs, SaveMate, K&K Fashion, and Minerva CQ
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 Medallia, MoEngage, Appier, and Luminoso Technologies.
Partners Include Summit Homes, Permanent TSB, Vodafone Spain, Forever 21, and Texas A&M University
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 SugarCRM, Medallia, Amdocs, Amperity, and Freshworks.
Partners Include Globe Telecom, Sunbelt Rentals, Voodoo Doughnut, Marelli, and Ascensos
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 Amdocs, Perficient, Tattle, Semos Cloud, and Calabrio.
A Software Bill of Materials Can Dramatically Boost Enterprise IT Security
Todd R. Weiss, Senior Analyst with The Futurum Group, shares his insights after talking with Red Hat security expert Vincent Danen at Open Source Summit 2023 about maintaining a Software Bill of Materials for critical applications they are using.
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.