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Teneo.ai Wants Your Contact Center to Stop Guessing
The Stockholm company behind the Teneo platform is betting enterprises want AI agents that resolve calls at 99% accuracy - and that they would rather bolt that onto Genesys, Amazon and the rest than rip anything out.
Voice AI Is Quietly Winning the Customer Service War
Salesforce, Replicant, Rasa and Five9 are betting your next support agent won't be human. Here's who's ahead, what actually changed, and why the phone call became the last battleground.
Four Contact Center Platforms, One Confusing Choice in 2026
NICE, UJET, Kustomer and XCALLY all promise to fix your customer service. They come at it from four very different places - and the gap between them says a lot about where support software is heading.
Odigo Wants Europe's Call Centers to Stay in Europe
For nearly 40 years Odigo has quietly run the phone lines behind Air France, DHL and Allianz. Now the French CCaaS firm is betting that Europe's biggest brands would rather keep customer data on a sovereign cloud than hand it to Silicon Valley.
The Eight Platforms Deciding Whether You Reach a Human
Talkdesk, Five9, Salesforce, Zendesk, UJET, Convoso, CloudTalk and Broadvoice all promise to handle your customers. Here is what each one is actually built to do - and which business should pick which.
ComputerTalk Never Got Bought, Its Founder Conducts Mahler
For nearly 40 years the Markham software company has built its ice Contact Center entirely in-house, turned down every acquisition offer, and outlasted rivals like Cisco, Five9 and Genesys. Its founder, Mandle Cheung, runs it while personally funding a 100-piece orchestra so he can conduct Mahler.
Enghouse Turns Unloved Software Into a Cash Machine
While NICE, Talkdesk, Amazon and Microsoft spend to win the AI contact-center race, Enghouse Systems keeps buying mature software companies and holding roughly 69% recurring revenue at 27% margins. The Markham compounder is boring on purpose.
The $9 Billion Race to Replace the Call Center
Eight software companies - from enterprise giant Genesys to a startup called CloudTalk - are betting the phone call survives. They just disagree on whether a human will still answer it.
UJET Bet Its Whole Company on Being Google's Contact Center
The San Francisco startup rebuilt itself around Google Cloud's AI, handed its founder the chairman's chair, and is now selling the search giant's contact center to the small businesses everyone else ignores.
The Four Tests for a Genuinely AI-First Contact Center
Everyone in the category says AI-first and most of them mean they bought a chatbot. Here are four tests that tell purpose-built architecture from a bolt-on you can never quite switch off.
Eight Contact Center Platforms Racing to Answer Your Angry Call
Sharpen, UJET, Cisco, Voiso, Gladly, Enghouse, Bright Pattern and Mitel are all chasing the same moment - the second you dial support. Here is who is winning, who is bleeding, and who is quietly betting the human on the other end is optional.
UJET and GoTo Are Racing to Own Your Next Support Call
One is a San Francisco AI-native wired straight into Google's agents. The other is a Boston software giant with millions of business customers and a contact center to sell them. They are both chasing the same ringing phone.
Eight AI Contact Center Platforms Chasing the Same Phone Call
Dialpad, 8x8, Sprinklr, Broadvoice, Squaretalk, CloudTalk, Convoso and UJET all promise to run your phone lines with artificial intelligence. Here is what actually separates them once the demo ends.
The Software War Behind Every 'Please Hold'
8x8, Aircall, CloudTalk, Cisco, Nextiva, UJET, Vocalcom and Broadvoice are all chasing the same few seconds before a human picks up. Here is how eight very different companies ended up fighting over the cloud behind your customer service line.
How Puzzel, Genesys, Vocalcom and UJET Are Rewiring Support
Four contact center vendors, four very different 2026 bets - a Nordic cloud pioneer, an industry-defining incumbent, a founder who bought his own company back, and a Google-backed challenger under new leadership. Here is who is wiring the next customer call.
CloudTalk Bets the Phone Call Isn't Dead - It's Just Dumb
The Slovak startup raised $28 million to turn the business phone call into software - and picked a fight with UJET, Mitel and Salesforce over who owns the voice in customer conversations.
Nobody Loves the Call Center. These Four Are Rebuilding It
Four contact center software makers - the French dialer pioneer Vocalcom, the billion-dollar public company Five9, the private-equity roll-up Sharpen, and the Google-backed newcomer UJET - are betting on very different futures for the support call.
AI Is Quietly Taking Over the Customer Service Call
Dialpad, Amazon, RingCentral, Gladly, UJET and Broadvoice are betting that the future of customer service has no hold music and no script - just AI agents that answer on the first ring. Here is who is fighting for the world's most hated phone call.
The Contact Center Turned Into an AI Battleground in 2025
Talkdesk crashed the leaders' circle, Content Guru now stands alone as a challenger, Cisco slipped, and 8x8 vanished from the map. Gartner's 2025 CCaaS ranking is really a story about AI eating the call center.
UJET Wants to Kill the Call Center Mitel Helped Build
San Francisco's UJET calls itself CCaaS 3.0 and treats the phone as an app, not a switchboard. Ottawa's Mitel spent fifty years wiring the old way - now both are racing to work out what a human agent even does once the AI picks up first.
AVOXI Wants Your Business Call to Stop Looking Like Spam
The 25-year-old Atlanta voice company sells phone numbers in more than 150 countries. Now it is betting that the hardest problem in business calling is not connecting - it is getting people to pick up.
UJET and Broadvoice Bet the Call Center on Agentic AI
Two contact center vendors are chasing the same idea from opposite ends - software that talks back, thinks, and acts. Here is what UJET and Broadvoice are actually shipping in 2026, and who it helps.
UJET Wants to Beat Salesforce Without Leaving Salesforce
The contact-center company runs deep inside Salesforce's clouds while betting against its Agentforce land grab. UJET's wager is that no single vendor gets to own the whole customer conversation.
UJET vs Five9 and the Fight for the AI Contact Center
One is a billion-dollar public incumbent, the other a Google-backed challenger a fraction of its size. Both are betting the future of customer service is an AI agent, not a person in a headset.
Zoom and UJET Bet the Contact Center Belongs to AI Now
Two very different companies - a video giant and an AI-first upstart - are converging on the same idea: the future of customer service runs on agents that never sleep. Here is how the CCaaS race is reshaping who answers when you call.
The AI Contact Center Land Grab, in Eight Companies
Dialpad, UJET, Regal, Twilio, Bright Pattern, Kustomer, Mitel and XCALLY are all chasing the same moment - the second a customer reaches out. Here is how eight very different companies are betting on what happens when AI picks up the phone.
Alvaria and UJET Wire AI Calling to a 50-Year-Old Dialer
Two contact-center companies - one built on decades of compliant outbound dialing, the other on AI-first cloud - are stitching their stacks together. The bet is simple: enterprises want the smart part without the legal risk.
Contact Center Software Is Learning to Answer the Phone Itself
Zendesk, TCN, Puzzel, Regal, UJET and Bright Pattern are chasing the same bet - that the next voice on your support line won't be human. Here is how six very different platforms are racing to get there.
Six Contact Center Platforms, Six Very Different Bets
Twilio, UJET, Cisco, Alvaria, CloudTalk and Gladly all promise to handle your customers - but each one was built for a very different company. Here is who each is really for.
Regal's AI Answers the Phone So Your Call Center Doesn't Have To
The New York startup is betting the future of the call center isn't fewer humans and cheaper bots - it's AI voice agents that sound like your best rep, never sleep, and have already worked their way through 500 million calls.