The new updates include features such as conversation mining and generative AI-driven survey summarization. Credit: Tada Images / Shutterstock Salesforce has announced new Contact Center updates to its Service Cloud — an offering targeted at bettering customer experience and boosting the productivity of service teams. The new updates to the Contact Center include features such as conversation mining and generative AI-driven survey summarization among other features. Dubbed Einstein Conversation Mining, one of the new features will allow an enterprise’s service team to aggregate and analyze conversation data, with the help of Data Cloud and Einstein, to decode the common reasons behind customers reaching out across all service touchpoints. Once the common reasons are identified via the new mining feature, enterprises can develop a knowledge article or train an Einstein Bot to handle the common requests, the company said in a statement. The recommendation feature of Einstein that suggests an article based on common reasons for customers reaching out will be in pilot in the summer of 2024 for interfaces across Facebook, Messenger, and WhatsApp. Separately, the main Einstein Conversation Mining feature for voice and messaging, including third-party apps, will be generally available in the summer of 2024. The generative AI-driven Survey Summarization feature, on the other hand, uses the Data Cloud and Einstein to identify trends. It can also be used to identify root causes of low customer satisfaction scores, the company said, adding that agents can then proactively follow up with customers, creating personalized communications that address the root causes, helping foster loyalty, and “transforming contact centers into revenue centers”. This feature, too, is expected to be made generally available in the summer of 2024. Further, Salesforce said it is introducing a new capability, already made generally available, that will allow enterprises to use Einstein to scan live conversations across multiple service channels, such as phone, WhatsApp, and Facebook, and then suggest the best knowledge articles to help agents solve cases faster and improve the customer experience. Einstein can automatically generate new knowledge articles based on data from customer conversations and these articles can be reviewed, edited, and posted to the internal knowledge base as a resource for other agents, it added. Partnership with AWS and Genesys In order to enhance the capabilities of its Contact Center, Salesforce has partnered with AWS and Genesys. While AWS will bring Amazon Connect Chat, Amazon Connect forecasting, capacity planning, and agent scheduling to Service Cloud, Genesys will help orchestrate personalized conversations across all channels while providing service leaders with workforce performance insights. The partnership with AWS is expected to help enterprises boost agents’ productivity and create more informed supervisors, Salesforce said. Related content feature 10 projects top of mind for IT leaders today From embracing AI to modernizing infrastructure, IT leaders are focusing more on key business differentiators, risk mitigation, emerging issues, and transforming IT to accelerate change. By Mary Pratt May 20, 2024 11 mins Business IT Alignment Data and Information Security IT Strategy opinion Assembly required: 8 myths about knowledge management debunked Business leaders intent on fostering innovative cultures must differentiate between knowledge management and knowledge assembly. One involves systems, data, and collaboration; the other, insights, dialogue, serendipity, and courses of action. By Daniel Forrester and Jerold Zimmerman May 20, 2024 13 mins Content Management Systems Document Management Systems Staff Management analysis SAP customers see S/4HANA and AI as top digital transformation drivers With SAP’s end of mainstream maintenance for SAP Business Suite 7 set for 2027, recent findings from the US SAP user group reveal that companies are increasing focus on shifting to S/4HANA and embracing AI. By Thor Olavsrud May 20, 2024 6 mins SAP Generative AI IT Skills feature State of IT jobs: Mixed signals, changes ahead Layoffs and salary plateaus in the wake of exuberant pandemic-era IT hiring has the IT talent market in flux. And while employers pay premiums for hard-to-find AI skills, IT pros seek the same for filling in-office openings. By Sarah K. White May 17, 2024 10 mins Salaries Hiring IT Jobs PODCASTS VIDEOS RESOURCES EVENTS SUBSCRIBE TO OUR NEWSLETTER From our editors straight to your inbox Get started by entering your email address below. Please enter a valid email address Subscribe