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Jul 11, 2024
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Unlock communication excellence with CPaaS

Diving deeper into CM.com's CPaaS approach is empowering business users to unlock Communication Excellence - a guest article by Quadrant Knowledge Solutions, a global advisory and consulting firm focused on helping clients in achieving business transformation goals with strategic business and growth advisory services.

In recent times, the CPaaS landscape has been rapidly evolving, with new technologies and providers entering this market space. This dynamic environment necessitates continuous adaptation and innovation from players to stay competitive and meet the evolving communication needs. Within this dynamic space, CM.com, a significant player, remains a consistent provider of robust solutions tailored for transforming user businesses. Through its reliable offerings, the company empowers users to increase their customer interactions, fostering more compelling and personalised conversations that enhance the overall user experience. CM.com maintains its position as a key market player in transforming business communications and audience engagements by prioritising the enhancement of interaction and user satisfaction. With a commitment in driving digital transformation, it provides a comprehensive suite of tools and services, ranging from SaaS-based solutions such as Conversational AI Cloud, Mobile Marketing Cloud, and Mobile Service Cloud to payments, communications, and ticketing. CM.com enables businesses to orchestrate enhanced engagement, satisfaction, and loyalty by leveraging the power of CPaaS. With a rich history of innovation and a forward-thinking approach, the company continues to redefine the landscape of cloud communications, facilitating meaningful connections between businesses and their audiences in an increasingly digital world.

CM.com’s journey from communication APIs to SAAS based modules

In the case of traditional CPaaS, providers initially focused on basic connectivity offerings and fundamental cloud communication channels. However, as the market landscape evolved, driven by a shift towards digital channels and OTTs, vendors expanded their offerings to accommodate these changes. Moreover, in response to further evolving user needs, vendors began bundling comprehensive business solutions, incorporating features such as IVR, authentication, OTP APIs, number validation, and more into their portfolios. As a significant player in the market, CM.com has made notable contributions by providing the previously mentioned solutions. Additionally, recognising the evolving demands of users, CM.com has expanded its cloud solution portfolio to include three SaaS modules: Mobile Marketing Cloud, Conversational AI Cloud, and Mobile Service Cloud. This strategic move underscores CM.com's commitment to providing comprehensive solutions tailored to meet the dynamic needs of businesses in the digital communication landscape.

Mobile Marketing Cloud

Mobile Marketing Cloud module stands as a robust solution, encompassing tools and services to bolster businesses' mobile marketing initiatives. From SMS campaigns to rich media messaging and beyond, it equips businesses with the means to engage customers effectively across multiple channels. With a focus on automation, personalisation, and insightful analytics, CM.com empowers businesses to optimise their mobile marketing strategies, driving enhanced customer engagement and conversion rates while staying ahead in the competitive landscape. It also serves as an omni-channel customer engagement solution. This solution empowers users to build personalised omni-channel marketing campaigns, automating customer journeys with the support of a Customer Data Platform (CDP) to eliminate data silos.

Conversational AI Cloud

The company also provides a Conversational AI Cloud module that facilitates the design and deployment of chatbots across diverse channels through a no-code approach. This offering leverages the user's knowledge sources to promptly generate accurate AI-driven responses without the need for training, configuration, or additional chatbot pathways. Users retain the flexibility to customise chatbot responses and manage dialogue flows, ensuring seamless interactions. This solution seamlessly integrates with other solutions and marketing tools from CM.com such as Mobile Service Cloud, Customer Data Platform, communication channels, and others fostering a unified experience for both customers and users. Through partnerships with industry leaders such as Google, Azure, and Mistral, the company presently offers LLMs (Large Language Models) to users, with plans underway to host its own LLM in the near future.

Mobile Service Cloud

The third module of CM.com's SaaS portfolio is the Mobile Service Cloud, an AI-driven agent inbox designed to streamline, manage, and enrich customer service interactions across diverse channels. This module enhances operational efficiency and minimises customer wait times by consolidating customer’s preferred channels, relevant data, and service conversations into a user-friendly inbox accessible to all agents. Additionally, this solution features an AI assistant powered by generative AI technology, which augments productivity by offering answer suggestions, improving message quality, facilitating translations, and summarising conversations, all from a unified platform, elevating the overall customer experience.

As per Abhishek Ghosh, Analyst - Cloud Communications at Quadrant Knowledge Solutions:

“CM.com is focusing on enabling itself to deliver hyper-personalised customer experience at scale. The company takes a best-in-suite approach where it offers a comprehensive suite of interconnected software, solutions, and services to cater to the users’ multiple business needs.

As all the components in the CM.com’s product portfolio interacts organically with each other, it minimises the probability of compatibility issues and data silos. From a user perspective, managing a single suite of products is simpler and cost effective than dealing with multiple vendors and disparate systems. Users can also easily scale their operations by adding or removing modules from the suite as per their business needs without worrying about interoperability.

Overall, CM.com’s best-in-suite approach allows organisations to optimise their communications, streamline processes, and drive digital transformation initiatives more effectively. It provides a foundation for innovation and growth while reducing complexity and enhancing operational agility.”

As per Amandeep Singh Khanuja, Associate Director & Principal Analyst at Quadrant Knowledge Solutions:


“CM.com has positioned itself as an innovator in the CPaaS industry. By harnessing the power of rapid innovation and omni-channel communication, they enable businesses to deliver seamless, personalised interactions across every touchpoint.

CM.com's platform empowers companies to forge stronger customer connections, build loyalty, and drive growth in an era where exceptional communication is not just a differentiator, but a necessity. Their commitment to helping businesses achieve communication excellence sets them apart and solidifies their role as a catalyst for transformative customer communication experiences.”

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