Customer engagement stories - Page 7

AI platform Harvey will open a Paris office in Q2 and has hired former Canva executive Jorge Bestard as Vice President of EMEA Sales.

Newo.ai and IONOS have launched a plug-and-play AI receptionist, promising SMEs 24/7 call handling, missed lead recovery and quick setup.

FourKites has created a manufacturing advisory board of senior supply chain leaders to steer its product roadmap and AI-driven logistics tools.

Five9 and Google Cloud unveil a joint AI-powered CX platform, unifying contact centre workflows and customer data across all channels.

Channel partners in five markets plan to prioritise data-led products and consulting in 2026, edging out managed services and subscriptions.

SaleCycle snaps up French personalisation specialist BEYABLE to create a unified European eCommerce marketing and conversion platform.

Infobip named a growth and innovation leader in Frost & Sullivan's latest CPaaS report, praised for cross-channel AI-driven communications.

Amperity has debuted an AI Customer Data Agent that turns natural-language prompts into live segments and customer journeys for marketers.

Eagle Eye has launched an AI-powered Personalised Promotions tool to deliver real-time, individual retail offers at massive scale.

Fluent Commerce unveils Fluent Connect, using AI to slash retail system integration times from months to days across key platforms.

Klaviyo posts 48% EMEA revenue surge, names Europe-based Co-CEO Chano Fernández to spearhead international and AI-driven retail push.

Clean B2B data boosts marketing, sales and compliance; profiling, validating and standardising records cuts waste and sharpens decisions.

Brands are ditching fragmented martech stacks for centralised platforms as AI, richer messaging and costs expose the limits of siloed channels.

RingQ and Snom have sealed a global cloud telephony partnership to streamline IP phone provisioning and unified communications for businesses.

Customers profess loyalty but quietly walk away over price, experience or ethics, exposing how fragile many brand relationships have become.

Syspro and SugarCRM unveil Sugar for Syspro, an integrated ERP-CRM tool aimed at simplifying sales and shop-floor alignment for manufacturers.

Conviva expands Digital Product Insights with AI-driven pattern analytics, unifying journeys across apps, websites and conversational agents.

Pharmacy2U becomes the UK's first online pharmacy to gain B Corp status after scoring 91.4 in a global social and environmental audit.

Agentic AI and digital disobedience will strain policy, security and governance in 2026 as autonomous firms and users test new limits.

AI is transforming loyalty from points to real-time, personalised journeys as super apps and agentic engagement engines rapidly take hold.