Name: Gaps and Alignments in Business CX Strategies
Start: 2024-10-08T15:00:00Z
End: 2024-10-08T15:00:45.000Z
Location: BrightTALK
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Metrigy is an innovative research and strategic advisory firm that analyzes enterprise success metrics to advise companies on their technology transformation strategies.

Founded by Robin Gareiss and Irwin Lazar, both renowned technology analysts and content developers, Metrigy focuses on some of the coolest and most interesting technologies:

Digital transformation and digital workplace,
Unified Communications & Collaboration (UCC),
Customer Experience (CX) and contact center,
Artificial intelligence and analytics.

The future of customer service lies in AI-driven solutions, where Generative and Conversational AI are not just tools but strategic enablers of transformation. Dive into the latest innovations in AI that are positioning organizations for a future-ready, AI-first workforce. Get inspired by global brands like Toyota and Lufthansa that are already delivering exceptional CX to their customers via AI Agents, and gain actionable insights to lead your organization into the next era of customer service excellence.

AI Agents: Shaping an AI-First GenAI-Powered Customer Service Workforce

In today's interconnected market, great experiences with one brand raise the customer expectations for all brands--a concept known as expectation transfer. The resulting shift in consumer standards presents a tremendous opportunity for brands to stand out by consistently delivering exceptional customer interactions. NICE CXone customers are already embracing this potential, using purpose-built AI to exceed rising expectations and create consistently positive experiences.

Join us to learn how leading brands are leveraging AI to capture new value, drive business success, and achieve lasting differentiation in the evolving customer experience landscape.

AI in Action: Stay Ahead of Rising CX Expectation

In this episode, Jonathan Rosenberg, Five9's CTO and head of AI, and Metrigy's Robin Gareiss discuss the huge changes coming to customer experience in the next several years, driven largely by generative AI and contextual data.

MetriSight Ep.71 - CX Vision: 3 Pillars that Will Impact the Future

Successfully migrating Cisco Unified Communications Manager to Webex Calling requires a proactive approach for PSTN access management and dialplan transition. Key requirements include ensuring reliability and performance of voice traffic as well as maintaining support for local site survivability to ensure resilience. Service providers certified for Cloud Connect for Webex Calling offer a seamless way for organizations to take advantage of the benefits of cloud calling while minimizing risk.
In this webinar we’ll share insights and best practices for migration of Cisco on-premises, and cloud-hosted calling to the cloud and deliver practical guidance to ensure success.

Migrating Your Cisco CUCM to the Cloud

Connected workspace applications and platforms enable organizations to create a single location from which employees can accomplish, communicate about/collaborate on, discover important information for, and manage their work. In this webinar, Metrigy’s Beth Schultz, VP of research and principal analyst, will share insights from recently published research on connected workspaces and collaborative work management. You’ll learn:
- Defining characteristics of a connected workspace, from core capabilities to AI/generative AI advancements
- How connected workspace apps/platforms can address organizational and technology pain points
- Characteristics of successful implementations
- Which vendors play in this space, and how they differentiate themselves

Connected Workspace: Getting Work Done, Collaboratively

In this episode, Metrigy's Diane Myers talks with Greg Zweig, senior director of solutions marketing at Ribbon, about what Microsoft's decision to shutter its Azure for Operators business means for service providers using Metaswitch solutions. They'll discuss near-term steps operators can take to enusre their voice networks remain operational, as well as what they should be thinking of longer term.

MetriSight Ep.69 - Repercussions of Microsoft Closing its Azure for Operators Business

Metrigy's Irwin Lazar takes us inside the MetriStar program and shares which providers have earned Top Provider Awards, based on customer sentiment scores and customer business success, and award highlights.

MetriSight Ep.68 - Workplace Collaboration MetriStars 2024: Overview & Winners

Metrigy has published its second-annual ranking of CCaaS providers, based on market share, financials, market share momentum, product mix, customer sentiment, and customer business success. In this episode, discover why NICE gets the No. 1 spot--again--and find out which other vendors made the cut.

MetriSight Ep.67 - Inside Metrigy's CCaaS MetriRank 2024

In this episode we talk with Mark Ewing, Product Management Director for Google Meet, Rooms, and Voice about Google's vision and plans for hybrid meetings. We'll get Mark's take on how Google is evolving their meeting device partnerships and portfolio to meet the need for equitable meetings for both in-office and remote participants and how Mark sees AI impacting meeting experiences going forward.

MetriSight Ep.66 - Chatting about Google Meet

As companies increasingly adopt generative AI they do so with growing risk of misues, hallucinations, poisoning, and the need to ensure compliance for AI generated content. In this webinar we'll share insights into what companies are doing today (or not doing) to address generative AI security and compliance issues and provide guidance for adoption. Attendees will learn:
- The state of generative AI adoption
- Key security and compliance issues
- The state of generative AI security 
- The role of third-party tools in ensuring security and compliance
- How to successfully craft a gen AI security and compliance strategy

Tackling GenAI Security and Compliance Issues

Gaining competitive advantage requires careful focus and action. Foremost, you have to know the baseline and topline is for any business measurement. That’s where benchmarking comes in, but many companies either don’t do it—or they don’t do it properly. 

Benchmarking has become a vital practice for successful companies in their adoption and application of customer-facing technologies. By evaluating what successful companies are doing, they can adjust their own strategies to continually raise the bar for a better customer experience.

During this webinar, we’ll discuss the benefits of benchmarking and how to avoid the pitfalls. We’ll also show a real-world tool to help you benchmark your CX strategy against those demonstrating the highest measurable improvements. We will address these questions:

- How and why can you get benefits from benchmarking?
- What are the “gotchas” when evaluating your performance compared to other companies?
- How do you know if a web-based benchmarking tool is solid?
- What can you learn from 8x8’s benchmarking tool that you may not know today?

Why Contact Center Benchmarking Matters: Benefits and Pitfalls of Comparisons

Whitney Meer, an applied AI expert with NICE, explains why knowledge management is really all about AI management today, requirements for doing it well, AI trends to watch, and more.

MetriSight Ep.65 - What to Know About Knowledge Management in an AI World

In this episode, Metrigy's Irwin Lazar walks us through what's going well, and not so well, in collaboration and contact center security today, and shares tips for how to get it right. Based on Metrigy's recently published Workplace Collaboration and Contact Center Security and Compliance: 2024-25 study.

MetriSight Ep.64 - Getting Your Security House in Order

John Hurley, head of product marketing for Notion, explains the company's approach to collaborative work management... and shares why, as an entrepreneur at heart, he finds personal value in Notion.

MetriSight Ep.63 - What's in a Connected Workspace?

Businesses are rapidly rolling out AI, along with the associated automations, for customer interactions. But what do consumers think of these technology advancements? Join this webinar for the highlights of Metrigy's latest research study that examines consumer preferences when it comes to interacting with businesses. Metrigy CEO and Principal Analyst Robin Gareiss will answer the following: 
- Is AI making customer service better or worse? 
- Where are the gaps and alignments in what businesses offer and what customers want?
- As a CX leader, what are you doing right and wrong--from your customers' perspective?

Do Consumers Like AI When Interacting With Businesses?

Securing communications and collaboration applications is getting increasingly complex. New features, often based on generative AI are quickly becoming available. At the same time, risks to applications, privacy, and data continue to grow. In this webinar we'll share the results of our Workplace Collaboration and Contact Center Security and Compliance 2024-25 research study and provide IT, business, and informations security leaders with insights into:
- Emerging security threats
- Successful organizational and budgeting strategies
- How to assess providers
- How companies are addressing generative AI security concerns
- The use of third party security platforms

Securing Your Collaboration and Communications Applications

From AI bot adoption to spending drivers for contact center platforms, Metrigy's Diane Myers shares a few research snippets from Metrigy's Customer Experience MetriCast 2024 global buyer-side market study.

MetriSight Ep.62 - CX MetriCast 2024: Key Takeaways

Customer Service is Getting Worse. Now What?

Businesses all over the world are trying to embrace the latest AI-powered technologies to make their customer experience top-notch. But is all the effort and expense actually working?

Ask consumers, and most respond with a resounding no! Yet, case studies abound that document impressive customer satisfaction improvements with the use of advanced technologies.

This has many scratching their heads and wondering: How do I build a customer service strategy that drives efficiencies for the business and delivers stellar customer experience? Metrigy CEO Robin Gareiss will share the company’s extensive research studies, along with her analysis and recommendations on how to close the gaps between what customers want and what businesses are delivering.

Gaps and Alignments in Business CX Strategies

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