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Customer experience software provider Medallia debuted a number of advancements to its Medallia Experience Cloud platform this week at its flagship event Experience '18. Medallia officials said the updates include new developments in artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML), mobile technology and IoT. The updates include:
- Medallia Athena: Designed to help users leverage AI, ML and predictive analytics to engage customers. A feature called Medallia Text Analytics applies ML and predictive modeling on textual feedback from survey comments, social media and call center notes.
- Experience Data Platform: This is a system of record for experience data. It helps users capture customer interactions and combines customer, feedback, operational and machine data.
- Medallia Conversations: Provides real-time feedback across messaging platforms such as SMS and Facebook Messenger on mobile devices.
- VoC Anywhere: Helps users collect voice of the customer feedback natively through any internet-connected device or platform.
- Medallia Alchemy: This is a design system for web and mobile that includes open standards based APIs.
- Medallia Mobile 3.0: Built on the Medallia Alchemy design system, it's a third-generation app that provides mobile access to customer experience feedback and insights.
Medallia also announced a partnership with Facebook that connects the Medallia Experience Cloud with Workplace by Facebook, Facebook's enterprise collaboration platform. The goal is to help users share, collaborate and act on customer feedback. The Medallia integration helps employees engage with customers to optimize experiences, resolve any issues, understand systemic problems and make improvements.
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Adobe has expanded its integration between Adobe Analytics Cloud and Adobe Advertising Cloud with Advertising Analytics for Paid Search. Adobe officials said the move is designed to help organizations understand their search advertising investment by combining offsite advertising intent in context with relevant digital property engagement data within Adobe Analytics. This includes integrations with Google AdWords, Yahoo! Gemini and Bing Ads.
Nate Smith, product marketing manager for Adobe Analytics, wrote in a blog post announcing the integration that with Advertising Analytics for Paid Search, organizations can gain insight into impressions, clicks, cost and average position and quality score directly within Adobe Analytics. Users can take that data and use it within Adobe’s Analysis Workspace using drag-and-drop analysis and leveraging new reports and workspaces for advertising dimensions such as accounts, campaigns, groups, ads, keywords and match types which can all be combined with post-click activity.
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Shutterstock, which provides digital assets, tools and services, is now working with IBM to help marketers build media campaigns. Users can access IBM Watson AI technology to help find images from Shutterstock’s library of more than 200 million assets.
Watson Content Hub customers can search for Shutterstock content using its AI capabilities, which company officials promised understands and learns about the data in a company’s content management system over time. Through Watson Content Hub, customers will also have access to Shutterstock Editor, which allows them to customize images.
"IBM, with its Watson Content Hub, is the ideal partner for us to deliver on this objective given how their technical prowess and innovative products improve the creative workflow for marketers’ all over the world," Jon Oringer, founder and CEO of Shutterstock, said in a statement.
Zendesk Launches Omnichannel Suite
Zendesk, a customer service and engagement platform, has launched The Zendesk Suite. It is an omnichannel offering that brings together customer communication channels. The Zendesk Suite integrates email, live chat, phone, self-service help centers, and any other channel connected into the platform, including social media.
Zendesk also unveiled Connect, a new product for customer communication that is designed to help customer service teams send automated and timely messages based on a customer’s past actions and preferences. Connect brings together all previous customer actions, support history and user preferences. This aggregated data, company officials said, helps customer support teams scale customer communications with automated, personalized real-time messages.
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Sprinklr has hired Vivek Kundra as its chief operating officer. Kundra served as the first CIO for the US government under President Obama. He was also former executive vice president of Salesforce.
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As EVP at Salesforce, Kundra led growth and go-to-market strategies for a variety of verticals. He also launched a new Government Cloud. As Obama's chief information officer, he managed $80 billion in annual technology spending. “I’ve been incredibly fortunate in my career to learn from amazing leaders running some of the largest companies and governments in the world. All of them share one goal: to build enduring relationships that create value for every one of their constituents,” Kundra said in a statement.
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