The customer experience challenge met: Medallia
We have Medallia's response here to the Customer Experience Challenge. Do they meet your rigorous standards for customer experience?
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We have Medallia's response here to the Customer Experience Challenge. Do they meet your rigorous standards for customer experience?
The responses continue to roll in. We now have Genesys Lab leaving Medallia and Oracle as the two I'm waiting on, though they both are coming. But today, we concentrate on Genesys Labs who make their case as to why they can claim a tome associated with customer experience as its moniker.
Vendors have jumped on the customer experience board big time and I think they need to be challenged to prove that they should legitimately carry the concept, beyond hype. So I've asked a number of the most egregious at that to explain themselves.
After a year of monitoring and five weeks of reviewing questionnaires, I'm ready to name the finalists for CRM Watchlist 2013. Remember, these aren't the winners. Each winner will get a review. This is just a list. There is SO much more analysis coming it will make your head spin.
I'm calling to the carpet all the vendors who call themselves CEM or CXM or customer experience technology vendors. Today, Allegiance responds.
United Airlines has hardly been a paradigm of excellent customer service. Most of the time they do what could only be called a nasty job of it. However, once in awhile, in adverse circumstances, in context, they get it right and it becomes a lesson in how to do something successfully.
A little over a month I challenged a number of technology vendors who had shifted their messaging to customer experience from something else to customer experience to show me how they could defend that transition - to show me how it was more than hot air - smoke and mirrors. So far Get Satisfaction and now SAP have met the challenge. Read it. SAP more than answered it.
A month ago, I issued a challenge to companies that were claiming to be customer experience platforms and applications who had changed their messaging relatively abruptly. I gave them the opportunity to state their case. Get Satisfaction's Jeff Nolan is the first to rise to the challenge.
CRM Idol 2012, going on since April, has been a great ride for more than 60 companies. But we are down to the wire; it's time for the finalists to be judged and the winners to be picked.
There are a lot of technology vendors claiming to be focused on customer experience where several months ago they were CRM or EFM or Customer Service or something else. Now they are either changed companies or just jumping on a trend bandwagon without substance. Sometimes they are denigrating what they proudly claimed to be a few months ago. Here's their chance to prove their claim.