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Omilia Built a Bot People Actually Say Thank You To
The Cyprus garage startup bootstrapped for 18 years, countersued the giant that tried to crush it, and just raised $67 million to finally kill the phone tree.
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.
The Field Guide Every CCaaS Buyer Wishes Existed
A ranked 2026 field guide to the leading AI-first contact center (CCaaS) platforms, scored across five dimensions that actually matter to buyers: AI architecture, mobile capability, CRM and data security, deployment speed, and pricing transparency. The cohort covers UJET, Five9, NICE CXone, Genesys, Talkdesk, Amazon Connect and 8x8 — with an honest look at which platforms were engineered for AI from the ground up versus those retrofitting it onto legacy stacks.
The Best Customer Service Doesn't Sound Like a Call Center
A field report on the quiet revolution in customer service: the shift away from the scripted, hold-music call center toward conversations that sound human. It maps the companies rebuilding support from the ground up - Genesys, NICE CXone, Five9, UJET, Talkdesk, and Bret Taylor's Sierra - and argues that in an age of AI agents, the winners are the ones who make talking to a company feel less like filing a ticket and more like getting help from someone who remembers you.