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Best of Enterprise Connect: What’s on Tap for 2020Best of Enterprise Connect: What’s on Tap for 2020

Looking for the latest and greatest advancements in AI, customer experience, employee engagement, and meeting rooms

Beth Schultz

January 12, 2020

2 Min Read
Picture of the Best of Enterprise Connect 2019 award presentation
Best of Enterprise Connect 2019 award presentation

When the Enterprise Connect Exhibit Hall opens its doors on March 30, attendees will have the chance to see the latest and greatest products from UC and collaboration industry players big and small alike. The enterprise communications and collaboration industry is nothing if not highly dynamic.

 

Many businesses today are driven by the desire to excel at customer service and enable opportunities for truly collaborative work among employees and, when necessary, external colleagues. Across these two areas, creating environments where employees can easily engage with one another effectively and productively is key.

 

Artificial intelligence (AI) plays an increasing role, whether that takes shape in the form of chatbots and agent assist tools within the contact center or virtual meeting assistants and advanced speech technologies on the business side. But all sorts of other factors come into play, too… the user interface, integration among disparate apps, seamlessness of experience, and so on.

 

Everybody’s talking about all of this, but some companies are delivering on it better than others. And discovering which companies do it in the way that best serve your business’s needs may well be one of the very reasons you’d find yourself exploring the Enterprise Connect 2020 Exhibit Hall this spring.

 

As always, Enterprise Connect likes to recognize exhibitors that showcase innovative and interesting new products at their booths. We do this in our annual Best of Enterprise Connect award program, through which we aim to recognize outstanding product achievements within specific categories as well as overall. For 2020, we’ll be recognizing excellence in these four award categories:

 

  • Best Application of Artificial Intelligence

  • Best Innovation in Customer Experience

  • Best Innovation for Advancing Employee/End User Engagement

  • Best Innovation for Meeting Rooms

 

In addition, all entries will be in contention for the overall Best of Enterprise Connect award.

 

A judging panel vets all entries, determining finalists and winners through an independent review and voting process. This year’s judges are:

 

We’ll keep you up to date on which vendors land as finalists, should you want to visit their booths. And, we’ll be announcing winners on Tuesday, March 31, during the morning general sessions… and here on No Jitter, of course.

 

If you’re using any great new products announced since March 2019, give your vendor a nudge to enter the Best of Enterprise Connect award program. We’re accepting submissions through end of day on Friday, Jan. 31.

 

And, if you haven’t yet registered for Enterprise Connect 2020, do so within the next two weeks to get our lowest rate — and enter NOJITTER at checkout to save an additional $200 off the cost of attendance. See you there!

About the Author

Beth Schultz

In her role at Metrigy, Beth Schultz manages research operations, conducts primary research and analysis to provide metrics-based guidance for IT, customer experience, and business decision makers. Additionally, Beth manages the firm’s multimedia thought leadership content.

With more than 30 years in the IT media and events business, Beth is a well-known industry influencer, speaker, and creator of compelling content. She brings to Metrigy a wealth of industry knowledge from her more than three decades of coverage of the rapidly changing areas of digital transformation and the digital workplace.

Most recently, Beth was with Informa Tech, where for seven years she served as program co-chair for Enterprise Connect, the leading independent conference and exhibition for the unified communications and customer experience industries, and editor in chief of the companion No Jitter media site. While with Informa Tech, Beth also oversaw the development and launch of WorkSpace Connect, a multidisciplinary media site providing thought leadership for IT, HR, and facilities/real estate managers responsible for creating collaborative, connected workplaces.

Over the years, Beth has worked at a number of other technology news organizations, including All Analytics, Network World, CommunicationsWeek, and Telephony Magazine. In these positions, she has earned more than a dozen national and regional editorial excellence awards from American Business Media, American Society of Business Press Editors, Folio.net, and others.

Beth has a bachelor’s degree in journalism from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, and lives in Chicago.

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