Xperion was a Digital Signage partner of Kóstolom Wine Bar Buda at Budapest Wine Festival 2023 – in Buda Castle. Please watch our video about the festival.  

Rapid innovation in AI-assisted automation adds another layer of possibilities to what can be accomplished. How to deliver a better customer experience overall?

There’s a strong connection between investing in customer experience and increasing the bottom line. But what happens to CX budgets during economic uncertainty, inflation, and changing customer priorities?

Many organizations rely on external partners (or ‘intermediaries’) to support “their” customer experiences. But is it really “their” customer and “their” experience? Isn’t shared responsibility intrinsic to partnership? To be successful, the short answer is yes.

They believe that the best technology or the best product wins. But it often doesn’t. They fail to understand the many other factors at play, including the role of frictionless user experiences.

How are automated tools helping brick-and-mortar retailers expand basket sizes? Read about why the quality of data supporting A/B testing, upselling, cross-selling, and marketing efforts is essential for improving performance.

Despite constantly changing customer sentiment and strong economic headwinds, best-in-class digital brands power through and set the standard for excellence. “Understanding what these brands collectively do better than their peers can help CMOs develop roadmaps and leverage best practices to improve their own brands’ digital maturity,” says Matt Moorut, Director Analyst at Gartner.

With that in mind, here are ten ways that you can rock the customer experience in 2023.

Not only does the National Digital Citizenship Program raise the digitization of e-public administration services to a higher level, but in many cases the process and approach to administration itself will be radically transformed by 2026.  Simplification, user experience, citizen satisfaction, optimization of administration – the above terms are given a key role in the…

Why discard existing older screens when you can give them an easy upgrade with easescreen? Our partner ComPeri GmbH developed a comprehensive Digital Signage system for two MTU Aero Engines locations. This system integrated older displays for ecological and economical reasons, using an individually programmed easescreen app.

Intelligent solutions deserve to be understood and admired. By combining media technology and digital signage, the KNAPP AG showroom in Hart bei Graz achieves just that: bridging the gap between innovation and customers.

It’s a challenging time for customer experience (CX) leaders: Companies have lost their focus on customers, customer expectations continue to rise, and the economy is becoming more turbulent. Despite these challenges, a whopping 82% of CX leaders predict that their budgets will rise in the next 12 months, according to new Forrester data. Forrester contends that CX…

Dun & Bradstreet, the international provider of business information and company ratings classifies the financial stability and business reliability of all enterprises based on a proven system, that has been designed by international experts, and whose operation is consistently measured. This is how our company, Xperion Ltd. has been chosen as one of the enterprises…

A recent research highlighted that EX and CX and “revenue growth” are seriously intertwined, but not through complicated mathematical formulas, but improving the worker experience (EX) improves the customer experience (CX), which revenue growth. If management only focuses on CX and doesn’t deal with EX, it’s like leaving money on the table.

The experience your customers have when working with your business is a key factor in success. Ensuring your customers have seamless, satisfactory interactions with you—from when they first reach out through the completion of their transactions and beyond—will increase both your retention figures and the likelihood that existing customers will recommend your business to others.…

Gaining customer loyalty and trust is a board-level priority for most businesses worldwide. But customer experience (CX) efforts will falter without an equal focus on employee experience (EX). By prioritizing both customer and employee experiences, leading organizations can see long-standing positive effects.

The online world moves at a breakneck pace, and consumers have become accustomed to the immediacy and seamless interactions. In our digitally transformed age, what drives customer loyalty, boosts sales and improves growth? A digital customer experience that is glitch-free and easy, anticipates and reacts to customer needs, and truly understands them.

As a service provider, it’s important to optimize your operations continuously. Collecting the right data is the first step, and there are great opportunities to reduce queue times, enhance the customer experience and identify areas of improvement. This article will explain about how business intelligence can help service providers optimize their customer journeys.

Frictionless customer journeys are those that seamlessly react to customer needs, anticipate consumer responses, and follow the shopper across channels, locations, and touchpoints. They create experiences for customers that improve convenience and ease of shopping, drive loyalty, increase basket sizes, and improve profitability, ultimately creating competitive advantage in the market.

Many enterprises have embarked on some form of customer experience (CX) transformation. While such initiatives vary in terms of scope and maturity, organizations are using CX as a differentiating lever for future business resiliency and growth. In fact, data from IDC’s Future Enterprise Resiliency and Spend (FERS) survey show that organizations see improving Customer Experience as…

Customer experience is more important than ever. It’s experience, service and marketing all rolled into one. Customers notice almost everything. In fact, their brains are wired to make note of anything they don’t like. Call it a foible of the human spirit, but people tend to focus on the bad more than the good. Consequently,…

In this article, we are going to explore when and why you may need to invest in digital transformation in order to optimize your brand’s customer experience. Let’s explore three areas where digital transformation can have a big impact on your CX.

Collaboration Is The Key To CX Transformation We studied hundreds of customer experience (CX) case studies across and found a common thread: collaboration. Successful CXOs accelerate transformation with five distinctive collaboration strategies…

In the past, price has been a strong driving force in buying decisions, but in recent years there has been a shift in consumer buying behavior: Consumers are willing to spend more for a better customer experience. Customer experience is more than just an interaction between a customer and a salesperson. Especially considering today’s technology, consumer experience…

COVID-19 demonstrated a real need for almost every business to re-evaluate their technology and processes to enable continuing business operations during turbulent times. But as companies strive to retain or reclaim customers post-COVID, customer experience has emerged as the clear differentiator. Organizations that prioritize the experience and emotional response a customer has in their interactions…

In the digital age, customer experience is king. Today, two-thirds of companies compete on customer experience alone. The reality is that today’s businesses are operating in an environment where their top competitors are just a click away.Of course, everyone knows that better service makes for happy customers. But do happier customers translate to higher profits?

The customer journeys matter and we know the emotion matter too. It’s time to bring these two together and use journeys to design for the full scope of emotion. To compare customer journeys, we need to understand how to design for emotion

While many have started to offer digital solutions, improving digital customer experience is still a challenge when everything is new. In this blog post, we will discuss the following topics: How to improve customer experience with digital solutions, Tips to improve digital customer experience.

You can use a real-time store traffic management to keep track of your store visitors in real time, real time people counting enables you to get notified when the visitation limit for your shopping mall or retail store is nearly reached.

Current disease control measures are can be sufficient covered in curbing the virus, but in addition to training general practitioners, increasing testing capacity would be the most important, according to infectologist Erzsébet Pusztai.

Most visitor counting system make use of sensors in counting retail store traffic. It counts visitors coming in and going out of retail stores by using an infrared and other technology. You can read about the importance of using infrared technology in this blog post.

The customer journey is the path that a customer walks, between the different touchpoints and interactions with an organization. When we talk about the customer journey the central focus is on the customer. Do we know who they are? How they behave? What are their needs or expectations? Which factors make them buy a product? The…

Have streaming services changed how we consume content?

New customer journeys are emerging as digital adoption accelerates during COVID-19. These are journeys you’ll want to map, because a journey map is often the first opportunity to view the end-to-end customer experience and understand the wants, needs, and pain points of your customers as they navigate that journey.

The pandemic has set a new standard for the pace of change. In the past, we have euphemized “overnight disruption” to mean a few months to a few years for changes to unfold, which seemed fast. We live in a new world, where overnight disruption literally means overnight. This represents a radical shift in our mental model of the world, and it is something we are all coping with.

Worldwide IT spending is now expected to decline 2.7% in constant currency terms this year as COVID-19 impacts the global economy and forces many organizations around the world to respond with contingency planning and spending cuts in the short term.

Transformational times like these create opportunities for your firm to introduce net-new services that extend your market value.

Every customer journey, as simple as it looks, happens in a more and more complex ecosystem. Think about your last online purchase: You interacted with an online store, on your computer or your mobile, and got your order delivered at home as planned. Simple?

According to Honor’s research made by Canalys, the number of shipped smart devices in the world would exceed three billion units by 2023, including smartphones, computers, tablets, smart bracelets, smart speakers and earphones. With its 500 million shipped units, the European market will have 17% of this total by 2023, being the third largest market…

While the world has been watching the revolutionary innovations, and has been guessing when the big inventions would start commercially, the experts of SAP focus on invisible, though major changes at the levels of corporate, business and social operations. SAP experts don’t exclude the emerge of a ‘New World Order’, but we could see many…

Learn how to remain competitive in the digital economy by becoming a “Digital Innovation Factory” that produces software as well as consumes it:

Deloitte’s 11th annual Tech Trends report provides insights and inspiration you will need for the digital journey ahead. Several of this year’s trends are responses to persistent IT challenges. Others represent technology-specific dimensions of larger enterprise opportunities. All are poised to drive significant change and transform business in unpredictable ways.

IN 2020, THE next stage of digital’s evolution welcomes us with the promise of emotionally intelligent interfaces and hyperintuitive cognitive capabilities that will transform business in unpredictable ways. Yet as we prepare for the coming decade of disruptive change, we would be wise to remember an important point about yesteryear’s leading-edge innovations.

​New breakthroughs promise emotionally intelligent interfaces and hyperintuitive cognitive capabilities. Can we architect systems that will both find the business value in tomorrow’s tech trends and remain viable for decades?

We calculated it for you — at least if you are in one of the 15 industries that our new report “How Customer Experience Drives Business Growth, 2019” features. And if you aren’t, check out how we calculated the upside of CX (see below) so you can apply the same logic in your firm.

Augmented reality, digital clothing, blockchain – some buzzwords at fashion industry this year. In line with that, the demand for the digitalization of the services increases. According to the article of Vogue Business, the last year was mainly about technology developments at fashion companies, so to serve the changed needs. By the spread of 5G,…

Hyperautomation, blockchain, AI security, distributed cloud and autonomous things drive disruption and create opportunities in this year’s strategic technology trends.

To optimize the passenger exprience, airports need accurate KPIs in all elements of their service delivery management. Passenger flow management is the best solution to meet this demand. Xovis PTS combines 3D sensors with a software solution to measure aand visualize the gathered data on real time dashboards.

As a valued partner of Teleopti, I wanted you to be among the first to hear our exciting news. I am proud to announce that Teleopti has been acquired by Calabrio, the customer experience intelligence company headquartered in Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA.

Over the last 10 years, the public sector has changed significantly as it strives to keep pace with new challenges. From increasing public expectations to the government’s more visible performance, organizations are under pressure to provide citizens with quick and easy access to more innovative services.

Best buys outnumber Apple stores 5 to 1 – Yet Apple makes 5x more in sales per store. In 2018 Apple’s customer loyalty note has hit an all-time high of over 90% – What makes Apple so successful?

Skills for working processes to be learnt can be solvable by using micro-lessons in a more effective way than traditional courses. On the basis of the article released – at CIO.com – by Darren Winterford as the CEO of Ed Micro-learning, we are able to review the benefits of micro-learning.

IT managers, processing the digital business strategy, should cooperate with marketers in order to manage the user heatmap as a crucial importance. Perhaps the digital period has irrevocably changed the dynamic of corporate management.

The retail industry has undergone a significant transformation over the past decade, and it continues to evolve quickly. Led by advancements in digital channels, 2018 has been kind to retail in the US, with the market reporting growth every month so far after a record-setting 2017.

Organizations are awash in data — from geocoded transactional data to real-time website traffic to semantic quantifications of corporate annual reports. All these data and data sources only add value if put to use. And that typically means that the data is incorporated into a model.

If you flash a glance on a study from 2015, you can see that most of the innovations mentioned in the study are becoming the part of the daily practice of retail trade. (Unfortunately, currently there are no newer published studies which are such detailed and exact like the one from 2015.)

NEW YORK (Reuters) – Free Wi-Fi, discounted cappuccinos, artwork, and a dancing robot are among the features banks across the United States are touting to convince customers that even in an era of smartphones it is still worth it to visit a bank branch.

When companies set off to build their BI applications, the most common mistake they’ll fall into is foregoing user interviews. We often hear: “But we already know what we want. Here’s a list of metrics we need displayed in this dashboard. Can’t you just design the dashboard based off of this?”

Online sales increased at an astounding rate in the past few years, yet there are a lot of people who still prefer the more hands-on “going to the store” shopping experience. In the USA the total offline sales are 10X bigger than online. However, the online shopping business is growing 3x faster than offline.

Don’t believe everything you read about the #retailpocalypse. Retail’s going through a renaissance.

Is there a gap in your customer experience? Bridging the gap between online and in-store sales innovation. While online stores continue to make strides in technology that improves the customer experience and drives more sales, in-store is being left behind. Here’s how you can bridge it.

Mobile Ticket connects to Orchestra, an enterprise platform to manage omnichannel customer journeys. Orchestra future proof’s your customer experience strategy with bolt-on modular packages including appointment and resource management, online collection processing, digital signage, context marketing opportunities and staff mobile applications.

“It’s a magical place. We’re on our way there.” The old Toys R Us jingle has worn thin. Now it’s on its way out. The retailer’s UK arm has gone into administration, putting thousands of jobs at risk. It isn’t that we have stopped indulging our children’s demands.

Qmatic, the global leader in Customer Journey Management, today announces Orchestra 7, the new version of its flagship enterprise platform Orchestra. Orchestra 7 is GDPR ready, completely modular and customers can choose from pre-packaged solutions like Click & Collect for Retail or tailor a solution that matches their exact needs.

From the 5th to the 7th of February 2018, Qmatic Benelux invited partners from the Benelux and Central Europe for a 2-day team meeting focusing on sharing best practices, exchanging knowledge and driving sales. After an informal Meet & Greet, the official program started on Tuesday with a full day of workshops and presentations.

Today Orchestra 7 was globally announced. Information about the product was made available via a news release that was published on our global web and distributed to select media. News was also published on Qmatic’s LinkedIn company page.

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There will be plenty of jobs in the future: You just won’t be able to do them. In the not-so-distant future, millions of workers will have different jobs than they have today. What those jobs will be exactly, is still very much up for debate.

As communicated since December 2012, Q-WIN and Qmatic Suite will reach End of Life on December 31st2017. End of Life means: • Support: – No support will be given by Qmatic – No enhancements or corrections will be made by Qmatic – Bugs related to the core product will not be managed

Toys ‘R’ Us has filed for bankruptcy as it seeks to restructure $400 million in debt — the result of a $6.6 billion buyout from more than a decade ago that has slowed its physical and online growth.

As the market for big data analytics rapidly expands to include mainstream customers, its important to know big data technologies that really matter.

It’s not because of what’s happening now. It’s because of what happened in the past. And what’s coming next.

In developing version 8.6, the focus for the Teleopti WFM team has been on helping our customers to effectively handle any changes or requests that come along. A large part of achieving this responsiveness is improving the speed and usability of each tool.

Building on the popularity of MyTime, Teleopti’s web-based self-service tool for agents, we will be launching the MyTime mobile app this spring. The interactive MyTime application helps agents keep up to date with theirs and their team members’ schedules, track their performance, and, using add-on modules, take control of their vacation and working hours whenever, wherever.

When it comes to reaping the full benefits of self-service, it is about planning and a well thought-out strategy. Annica Ronquist, Head of Global Customer Operations and Services at Teleopti, outlines 5 top tips for self-service success.

There’s a tenet in customer organizations born from things like the Golden Rule or Dr. Maya Angelou’s often shared confession, “I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”

If budgets are an indicator of power and priorities, then marketers are leading the charge in a data-drive, digitally led world. Our fifth annual CMO Spend Survey shows how organizations are directing their spend.

From January 15 through 17, Qmatic joined 35,000 retail professionals for the 106th annual NRF Big Show Convention and Expo. We had a great time sharing information and learning about advances in retail and customer experience, networking with peers, and more.

A Dutch supermarket Jumbo, one of the market leaders, experiments with a virtual bus-stop-supermarket in the city of Utrecht, in The Netherlands.The bus-stop supermarket presents a selection of products, proven to be favourite buys for their customers. The items are processed quickly, scanned and added to a virtual shopping cart using the ‘Jumbo app’.

How can you leverage WFM to make quick-and-easy wins for your return on investment (ROI)? I’d like to share a couple of quick-and-easy, real-world scenarios that immediately will turn into wins for your contact center.

Qmatic are proud to have been named Virtual Systems Supplier Company of the Year by Business and Industry Today.

Since Teleopti’s inception in 1992, we’ve been working relentlessly on raising employee engagement and satisfaction – both in our own internal operations and in our workforce management (WFM) solution. Our efforts have now been rewarded with the prestigious 2016 EMEA Customer Value Leadership Award from growth consultancy, Frost & Sullivan.

Magnus Geverts at Teleopti says it’s time to wise up to the explosive growth of Chatbots while keeping human agents happy with effective workforce management

A recent study found the average person checks his or her smartphone a staggering 85 times a day! And just look around in shops and cafés, on buses and trains – even while walking in the street: almost everyone is glued to a personal electronic device.

The Myfunwait® mobile app works with the company’s customer journey management platform to deliver an immersive experience.

Mobile Connect App with Enhanced Connectivity and Simultaneous Multiple User Support Leads Key Features that Help Companies Improve Customer Experience

In the ever-growing competitive market of retail, the ability to analyse in-store performance has never been greater.