The shift from human to digital is well underway, as businesses are looking to create new ways to interact with customers that will create a differentiated customer experience (CX). Companies of all sizes and in all verticals are feeling the pressure to digitize as CX is now the top brand differentiator — outweighing price, product quality, and all other factors. For most organizations, the contact center is where CX starts, which is why there has been so much investment in modernizing this area over the past few years.

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Talkdesk Builder Enables Businesses to Create Bespoke Experiences

Zoomtopia 2022 is now in the books, and it was nice to see the event run in a hybrid format with an in-person component after two years of being virtual only. Beyond the return of an in-person event, it’s hard to overstate just how much has changed with Zoom since 2019, the date of the last in-person Zoomtopia. The company closed its fiscal 2019 with $540 million in revenue and was a video-only company. Today, its revenue is a shade over $4 billion, and it has expanded its products to include phone, contact center, events, webinars, and more services.

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Zoomtopia 2022 Final Thoughts: Zoom Sets Up Further Growth

Digital transformation (DX) looks different for every company, but in essence, it involves integrating digital technologies into all areas of the business.

The key to DX is to drive fundamental change and transform how a company operates. Newgen Software recently surveyed 300 senior business and IT leaders in large enterprises around the world to understand where they are currently in their DX journey. The findings were published in Newgen’s 2022 State of Digital Transformation Research.

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Study: Digital Transformation Is Ubiquitous Yet Challenges Remain

Zoomtopia is back – this year in person – and so much has changed since the last time Zoom held a non-virtual user event.

In 2019, Zoom was primarily a video meeting company that focused largely on consumers and small businesses. That year, Zoom did $331M in revenue. The pandemic caused the use of Zoom to explode and it became integrated into our personal and professional lives.

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Zoomtopia Highlights: Zoom Zooming into Email and Calendar

The data processing unit (DPU) is a relatively new technology that offloads processing-intensive tasks from the CPU onto a separate “card” in the server. I put “card” in quotes as that’s the form factor but in reality, a DPU is a mini server on board that’s highly optimized for network, storage, and management tasks.

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Understanding the Power Benefits of Data Processing Units