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AI Assisted Service

ICYMI: AI spending pressures, legacy IT strain, reskilling, and the end of the ‘SaaS apocalypse’

Your curated briefing on the latest news and ideas for AI-powered service operations

The Editors Of The Works

2 min read

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AI Assisted Service

The most AI-bullish industry is also the most overwhelmed by it

Financial services outspends every sector on AI and reports the greatest complexity burden. Here's what's driving the gap, and how some businesses are closing it.

Laura Rich

3 min read

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Employee Experience

The stakes of IT are different in health care

For cancer clinics, hospitals, and pharmaceutical companies, service management is part of the care delivery chain

Laura Rich

4 min read

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AI-Assisted Service

AI’s real business payoff: abundance

In an interview with ComputerWeekly, Freshworks CIO Ashwin Ballal explains why AI gives agile enterprises the freedom to chase more ideas than their resources once allowed

Derek Korte

1 min read

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Company News

Designing AI-powered software for agile enterprises

Instead of arranging screens, designers are shaping behavior and judgment, says Kedar Shiroor, SVP of design and research at Freshworks, so the end result 'just works'

Derek Korte

4 min read

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Employee Experience

AI transformations fail when they forget about people

Tools alone don’t make for successful service management. Wendy Turner-Williams lays out a people-focused AI transformation plan for leaders.

Howard Rabinowitz

4 min read

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Company News

Refresh 2026: Unified data, agentic AI, and the agile enterprise

To help agile enterprises accelerate service transformation, company leaders unveiled new innovations in agentic AI and a unified platform approach

Silvina Gils-carbo

3 min read

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Employee Experience

The mid-market’s $16 billion drain

Mid-market organizations are investing more in AI than ever. Complexity is consuming the returns before they arrive

Laura Rich

3 min read