
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.

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.

The San Francisco startup put a Cisco veteran in the CEO chair, raised $76 million, and decided the best contact center is the one you never have to sit in.