Kaspar Roos is the founder and CEO of Aspire Customer Communications Services, an international technology advisory firm specializing in customer communications transformation and customer engagement optimization. Before starting Aspire, he ran InfoTrends’ global production workflow and customer communications advisory service. At his tenure at InfoTrends, he helped leading technology vendors and service providers understand the shifts in the customer communications and workflow markets by providing market research, insights and strategic consulting services.
The Aspire Leaderboard is a one-of-a-kind tool designed to help stakeholders in every part of the customer communications ecosystem evaluate and compare CCM and CXM offerings
This year’s DOCUMENT Strategy Forum (DSF ’23) was held from May 22 to 24 in Charlotte, NC. Many CCM professionals meet annually at DSF to discuss evolving trends and best practices
On Thursday, January 7, 2021, Smart Communications announced its plans to acquire Assentis, a Swiss CCM software solutions vendor with a focus on financial services
With 2018 behind us, it’s that time of year when we reflect on the past developments that took place in our industry and to speculate on the technology innovations yet to come. We saw the emergence...
In 2018, we will continue to see the convergence of customer communications management (CCM) within the digital customer experience (DCX) market. While customer communications technology is increasingly...
Customer communications management (CCM) is an industry in transition. Last year, we witnessed further convergence of CCM with customer experience (CX) and saw new approaches in configuration and deployment...
OpenText Corporation, Canada’s largest software company with roughly $2B in global sales, announced it is buying HP Exstream for $315M. Exstream is a market-leading customer communications management...
Many enterprises, particularly those operating in regulated industries, have long-established customer communications teams and well-defined processes in place to ensure smooth delivery of critical communications....
Customers are the lifeblood of any business. If a business fails to serve its customers well, the business itself will ultimately fail. It is this old wisdom that is driving businesses forward to invest...
Customer engagement management (CEM) is the practice of optimizing the lifetime value of customers. CEM is significantly influenced by customer communication practices and has seen rapid growth and adoption...
Despite their pivotal role in customer journeys, forms are still viewed by many organizations as operational overhead. In a digital-first era, that outdated view is a hidden drain on revenue and a gro
2026 isn’t a year of incremental improvements in customer communications. It’s the year AI stops assisting and starts acting, and for CCM practitioners
The current state of AI document processing follows a recognizable pattern. An organization crafts a prompt — often quite sophisticated with detailed instructions and examples — passes it to a lar
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IDP, an AI-powered technology that reads documents and extracts meaning, has quickly become the advanced successor to traditional document extraction tools such as OCR