Verint Announces Expansion Of Its Cloud Platform Capabilities To Help Brands Accelerate Digital-First Customer Engagement

Verint Systems (Verint), the globally renowned customer engagement company, has announced the expansion of the digital-first capabilities of its cloud platform through the acquisition of Conversocial.

With this expansion, Verint’s market-renowned conversational AI provides brands the ability to orchestrate customer journeys with a connected experience across their channels of choice.

Robust support for digital customer engagement

The acquisition will expand Verint’s robust support for digital customer engagement

The acquisition will expand Verint’s robust support for digital customer engagement, with connections to most of the commonly used messaging channels, including Apple Business Chat, Facebook Messenger, Twitter, WhatsApp, and much more.

Conversocial helps globally renowned brands, such as Google, Sephora, British Airways, and Hertz build and scale relationships via the personal touch and convenience of social messaging.

AI-infused self-service and assisted service

In recent years, customer conversations have shifted from public social channels to one-to-one personalized messaging and brands are increasingly looking for ways to turn messaging into a strategic commerce, and care channel for customer experience advantage.

Dan Miller, the Lead Analyst at Opus Research, said “For more than a decade, Conversocial helped brands add social networks and messaging platforms to their marketing and customer support channels. Verint’s clients will now benefit from the combined companies’ demonstrated ability to offer AI-infused self-service and assisted service to digital-first customers.”

With the Verint Cloud Platform, brands are able to accelerate digital-first strategies:

• Deploy a wide set of conversational channels
• Use Conversational AI to automate personalized communications on the customer’s channel of choice
• Orchestrate customer journeys across channels of choice
• Connect AI-powered knowledge management across all channels
• Capture conversation, interaction, and experience data from all channels and apply advanced analytics to balance operating cost and customer experience

New conversational AI and messaging channels

Adding new conversational AI and messaging channels to our digital engagement portfolio is another step in this direction"

Verint’s Chief Marketing Officer (CMO), Celia Fleischaker, said “Supporting Boundless Customer Engagement that goes beyond traditional care channels, we are reimagining what it means to be ‘The Customer Engagement Company for a digital-first world’.”

Celia Fleischaker adds, “Adding new conversational AI and messaging channels to our digital engagement portfolio is another step in this direction and we welcome the Conversocial employees to Verint.”

Conversocial’s Chief Executive Officer (CEO), Ido Bornstein-Hacohen, said “We help brands deliver better customer experiences over messaging channels, while improving brand efficiency and customer satisfaction. We are excited to join forces with Verint, a leader in customer engagement, to help organizations achieve their digital-first strategies.”

Transaction Details

Verint has agreed to acquire Conversocial, which has approximately 80 employees with offices in New York and London, for US$ 50 million in cash, subject to certain closing adjustments.

The acquisition is expected to close in Verint’s third fiscal quarter, subject to customary closing conditions including the receipt of required regulatory clearances.