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January 16, 2026
See how modern CX solutions connect data across every touchpoint to turn fragmented signals into actionable customer understanding.
CX insight is moving from after-the-fact to in-the-moment. Teams are capturing experience as it happens, not weeks later.
Feedback only matters if it drives action. Modern CX platforms surface what matters most and help close the loop quickly.
Unified CX is now the baseline. Connecting feedback, behavior, and operational data enables faster, clearer decisions.
Most organizations know exactly where customers interact with their brand.
Fewer understand how those interactions actually feel.
Customers encounter brands across physical stores, websites, mobile apps, customer support channels, SMS, and more. Each interaction generates data. Sensors log behavior. Platforms capture feedback. Transactions record outcomes. Conversations produce text and speech.
Yet despite all this activity, many teams are still left stitching together partial views of the customer journey, hoping correlation will stand in for understanding.
Blending survey data with interviews once felt like a breakthrough. Today, it barely scratches the surface.
True customer experience understanding requires integrating:
Behavioral data from digital and physical environments
Direct feedback and Voice of the Customer signals
Operational data from service and support
Qualitative context that explains why moments matter
Without that integration, insights remain fragmented. Teams optimize individual touchpoints while the experience itself quietly degrades between them.
Customer Experience solution technologies exist to close this gap.
Rather than treating channels, data sources, and teams as separate systems, CX platforms are designed to:
Capture experience signals as they happen
Connect those signals across the journey
Reveal emotion, friction, and intent in context
Enable action across insights, product, service, and operations
CX tech isn’t just measurement. It’s infrastructure for understanding.
One of the hardest CX challenges is capturing experience while it’s unfolding, not weeks later in a post-hoc survey.
During the showcase, Conveo demonstrated how AI-moderated qualitative research can analyze real-time customer experience inside US quick-service restaurants. Rather than relying on delayed recall, this approach captures reactions as customers move through ordering, pickup, and consumption.
The result is access to:
Immediate emotional context
Nuance traditional surveys often miss
Early signals of friction before they appear in scores
It’s a shift from asking customers to remember how something felt to understanding how it actually feels in the moment.
While the CX ecosystem is broad, most solutions fall into four core categories:
Feedback and Voice of the Customer Platforms
Capture and analyze customer sentiment at scale
CX Management Suites
Combine feedback, analytics, and action into unified workflows
Customer Data Platforms and Personalization Engines
Unify data from multiple sources into a single customer profile
Omnichannel Engagement and Journey Orchestration Tools
Map and manage experiences across touchpoints in real time
Individually powerful, these tools are most effective when connected.
Collecting feedback is easy. Acting on it is where most CX programs stall.
That’s where platforms like SmartSurvey come in. Designed for CX teams who need to move quickly, SmartSurvey unifies feedback across touchpoints and applies AI across the entire program to surface what matters most.
Teams can:
Spot satisfaction shifts with real-time sentiment analysis
Identify patterns in seconds using thematic AI
Run global programs with built-in translation
Trigger adaptive follow-ups only when clarity is needed
Close the loop through integrated case management
Share live dashboards across NPS, CSAT, and other CX metrics
Instead of spending weeks tagging comments and reconciling spreadsheets, teams move directly from insight to action, with accountability built in.
The real promise of CX technology isn’t more dashboards. It’s better decisions.
When experience data is unified, teams can:
Understand how moments accumulate into perceptions
Detect issues early, before they become churn
Prove which improvements actually move CX metrics
Align insights, product, and operations around a shared truth
CX solutions turn experience from something observed into something actively managed.
This Tech Showcase brings together innovators demonstrating how modern CX platforms work in practice.
Through live demos, attendees see how teams:
Capture experience in the moment
Translate feedback and behavior into insight at scale
Coordinate action across insights, service, and product teams
Operationalize CX with speed, clarity, and confidence
It’s not about features. It’s about seeing the customer clearly and acting while it still matters.
Explore emerging technologies, see real solutions in action, and learn how insights teams are solving today’s most complex challenges.
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