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Susanne Pitts

@VerintSusanne

Writer. Editor. Hard-wired optimist. Verint Marketing. Music lover. Fan of Florida's Gulf Coast. Football enthusiast. All views are my own.

Katılım Mayıs 2013
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Shashi Bellamkonda
Shashi Bellamkonda@shashib·
Leadership Shift in CX Automation: Dave Rhodes Takes Helm at Verint Big news in the CX space: Dave Rhodes has been named CEO of the combined @Verint –Calabrio organization. This completes a deliberate, two-step leadership transition that began when Thoma Bravo closed its $2B acquisition of Verint in November 2025. The sequence matters. When the acquisition closed, Thoma Bravo Operating Partner Michael Lipps stepped in as interim CEO and Chairman, while Rhodes continued leading Calabrio and reported directly to Lipps. Today's announcement elevates Rhodes to lead the full combined entity, a vote of confidence earned over those intervening months. The combined organization will move forward under a single corporate name ,Verint though the Calabrio product line will continue and be enhanced as part of the Verint CX Automation Platform. Rhodes brings a strong operational track record from Calabrio, Sauce Labs, Unity, and Autodesk. He now steers a company with significant scale: one of the largest customer experience datasets in the world, serving more than 80 of the Fortune 100. The strategic focus is clear: - Accelerating the shift to autonomous, bot-centric CX automation - Unifying workforce engagement under a single AI-powered platform - Consolidating a Thoma Bravo portfolio that now also includes Medallia and Aisera making this more than just a two-company story As an analyst covering this space, the deliberate pacing here is telling. Thoma Bravo didn't rush the CEO decision, they used the interim period to test integration and then put the Calabrio operator in charge. That suggests the go-forward growth strategy leans heavily on Calabrio's mid-market motion and WEM DNA, scaled by Verint's enterprise footprint. The "Big Two" framing (Verint vs. NICE) remains my analyst interpretation, not a company claim but the consolidation logic is hard to argue with. Read more: shashi.co/2026/02/dave-r… Thanks for the heads-up Mary McCahon Amy Haseltine #CXAutomation #AI #WEM #CustomerExperience #Leadership #Verint #Calabrio #ThomaBravo
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Paul Tessier
Paul Tessier@PaulTessier_cx·
If your contact center data lives in silos, you’re missing strategic gold. Unified data = smarter decisions. Check out today’s blog. sprou.tt/1fHy2w3baJD
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Verint
Verint@Verint·
Verint Announces Corporate Name for Combined Verint-Calabrio Organization. Click to see more: bit.ly/4qIDjQo
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Paul Tessier
Paul Tessier@PaulTessier_cx·
“Many companies are rushing to deploy generative AI for self-service, but often overlook the importance of making these tools easy to manage and capable of delivering real ROI,” says Jacob Murray-White of Verint in a recent destinationCRM feature. sprou.tt/1192GPxJgAj
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Robin J Egan
Robin J Egan@eyeluvtigger·
Most of the customer experience happens outside the contact center. Third‑party data integration brings that journey context back into view. Today’s blog breaks it down. 🔗 sprou.tt/1lVhaja2eGZ
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MaribelLópez #tech #AI #analyst Lopez Research
75-95% of enterprise AI projects never reach production according to various research studies. Here are the 5 execution mistakes killing most AI initiatives: 1. Building platforms before solving problems 2. Assuming your data is ready (it's not) 3. Flying blind without metrics 4. Trying to boil the ocean 5. Racing to agents without guardrails Organizations winning at AI aren't doing anything magical—they're just avoiding these preventable mistakes. The technology exists for almost all AI projects. The use cases are proven. The only variable is execution discipline. What's your biggest AI execution challenge? Full breakdown: lopezresearch.com/five-steps-to-… #AI #EnterpriseAI #GenerativeAI #AgenticAI #AIStrategy
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Verint
Verint@Verint·
🤖 Build a bot. No code. No stress. The Verint Build-a-Bot demo lets you create a working IVA in minutes—just drag, drop, and deploy. Try it now and see how easy automation can be. bit.ly/4aa0PAX
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