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Exploring how the cloud platform giant is teaming with major players to bring its AI expertise into the contact center

Sheila McGee-Smith

July 30, 2018

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Google Embraces the Contact Center

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The last contact center slideshow that appeared here on No Jitter, Top Contact Center Stories of 2017 , had the subtitle: "Artificial Intelligence Groundswell." If AI's importance to the future of customer experience software could be compared to a rolling of the sea last December, by this July it's an outright tidal wave. Nowhere was that more evident than at last week's Google Cloud Next event. The company reported that 25,000 people attended -- either in person or via the hours of streaming keynotes and breakout sessions on its in-house network, YouTube. One of the key announcements relevant to No Jitter readers was Contact Center AI. You can read the highlights of the announcement in my post, " Google Enters the Contact Center AI Fray ," and in one from my colleague Dave Michels, " Google Clouds Enterprise Communications ."

Exploring how the cloud platform giant is teaming with major players to bring its AI expertise into the contact center

About the Author

Sheila McGee-Smith

Sheila McGee-Smith, who founded McGee-Smith Analytics in 2001, is a leading communications industry analyst and strategic consultant focused on the contact center and enterprise communications markets. She has a proven track record of accomplishment in new product development, competitive assessment, market research, and sales strategies for communications solutions and services.

McGee-Smith Analytics works with companies ranging in size from the Fortune 100 to start-ups, examining the competitive environment for communications products and services. Sheila's expertise includes product assessment, sales force training, and content creation for white papers, eBooks, and webinars. Her professional accomplishments include authoring multi-client market research studies in the areas of contact centers, enterprise telephony, data networking, and the wireless market. She is a frequent speaker at industry conferences, user group and sales meetings, as well as an oft-quoted authority on news and trends in the communications market.

Sheila has spent 30 years in the communications industry, including 12 years as an industry analyst with The Pelorus Group. Early in her career, she held sales management, market research and product management positions at AT&T, Timeplex, and Dun & Bradstreet. Sheila serves as the Contact Center Track Chair for Enterprise Connect.