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The Latest on Another Big Call Center Lawsuit, Microsoft Teams' New Contact Center Integration Model

CX Today's Charlie Mitchell presents the latest trending news from the customer experience world. He's joined by four prominent CX analysts to dissect each s...

CX Today's Charlie Mitchell presents the latest trending news from the customer experience world.

He's joined by four prominent CX analysts to dissect each story.

In this edition, our CX experts include:

  • Zeus Kerravala, Principal Analyst at ZK Research
  • Liz Miller, VP & Principal Analyst at Constellation Research
  • Shelly Kramer, President & CEO at Kramer & Company
  • Keith Kirkpatrick, Research Director at The Futurum Group

During the conversation, they share more insight into each of the three following news stories:

A New Lawsuit Alleges That a CCaaS Vendor Recorded a Domestic Violence Hotline without Permission

The lawsuit also accuses the vendor of mining those for communications to improve its own services. Yet, it's far from the first filing from across the space to make this accusation.

Microsoft Launches a New Contact Center Integration Model for Teams

Once teased as "Power", the new model goes by the name "Unify" and is Microsoft's third solution for contact center vendors to attach their offerings to Microsoft Teams.

Mitel Is Set to Emerge from Chapter 11 Bankruptcy

The US courts have accepted Mitel's bankruptcy plan, which will slash its debts by an astonishing $1.15BN. It's now betting its future on hybrid enterprise communications deployments.

 

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