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What's new at Dialpad: September 2026

Dialpad and Glean Announce Integration for Conversation Insights

Dialpad announced a new integration with enterprise AI company Glean that brings Dialpad’s conversational intelligence (voice and text, AI and human) into Glean’s enterprise knowledge platform. Dialpad has joined the Glean Partner Network and will demo the integration at Glean:GO 2026. The integration is intended to make customer conversations discoverable and actionable alongside documents, systems and workflows, enabling in-call assistance, richer context for sales and service, improved QA and faster post-call follow-up.

• Dialpad announced a new integration with enterprise AI company Glean to connect conversational intelligence with enterprise knowledge.
• Dialpad joined the newly launched Glean Partner Network.
• The integration will be demoed at Glean:GO 2026.

July 2026 Product Roundup

Dialpad's July 2026 release includes real-time voicemail reports, live call volume tracking, repeated admin alerts, calendar event deletion in WFM, new CTI call bar, AthenaHealth integration, custom Professional Services integrations, Salesforce verification, Bullhorn admin controls, reduced Salesforce API usage, license pools, company-level credit pooling, enhanced credits page, credits analytics, multi-screen sharing, dual-screen meeting rooms, Picture-in-Picture, and more.

Nintex Names Amy Payne Chief Marketing Officer

Nintex, a global leader in process management and workflow automation, has appointed Amy Payne as Chief Marketing Officer. Payne, who brings over 25 years of B2B technology marketing experience, will lead Nintex's global marketing organization and focus on strengthening market position, accelerating demand, and deepening customer and partner engagement. The appointment is part of Nintex's advancement of its vision for agentic business orchestration, which combines people, processes, data, and AI agents. Prior to Nintex, Payne served as Vice President of Global Customer, Partner, Regional and Digital Marketing at Talkdesk and held marketing leadership roles at Dassault Systèmes. CEO Stephen Elop praised Payne's brand-building and demand-generation skills.

• Amy Payne appointed Chief Marketing Officer of Nintex.
• Payne has over 25 years of B2B technology marketing experience.
• She previously served as VP of Global Customer, Partner, Regional and Digital Marketing at Talkdesk.

Talkdesk report: AI in CX outpaces orchestration

Talkdesk published “The State of Agentic Automation in CX,” reporting that AI deployment across customer journeys is nearly universal but organizational orchestration is lagging. The survey of 252 mid-market and enterprise CX, IT, operations, and AI leaders (fielded April 2026 by NewtonX) found 98% of organizations have deployed AI, yet only 15% combine agentic AI with cross-departmental orchestration and 85% lack the orchestration to connect AI agents, human teams, data, and workflows. The report highlights hidden costs from fragmented AI (unfinished workflows, increased human handling) and shows that organizations with higher CXA maturity achieve materially better outcomes. Talkdesk and cited analysts argue that multi-agent orchestration and operating models for a hybrid human-AI workforce are the critical capabilities to translate AI activity into measurable business impact.

• Talkdesk published “The State of Agentic Automation in CX” report.
• 98% of organizations have deployed AI in their customer journey; only 15% combine agentic AI with cross-departmental orchestration.
• Talkdesk commissioned NewtonX to survey 252 director-level-and-above CX, IT, operations, and AI strategy leaders; fielded in April 2026.

Talkdesk launches Agent Builder for AI agents

Talkdesk announced Talkdesk Agent Builder, a natural language-driven product that lets business and technical teams create, test, diagnose and validate customer-facing AI agents before deployment. Agent Builder uses a “zero-prompt” approach to shorten agent development from weeks to hours, automatically ingests enterprise assets (SOPs, policies) to generate structured instructions and guardrails, and provides continuous monitoring and governance through the CXA Operations Center. Capabilities highlighted include plain-language agent creation, pre-deployment validation that surfaces gaps and recommends fixes, and simplified troubleshooting with human-in-the-loop approval. Talkdesk showcased Agent Builder at Customer Contact Week (CCW) Las Vegas (booth 638) and positions the tool as a way to reduce deployment risk and accelerate production-ready AI workforce scale.

• Talkdesk announced Talkdesk Agent Builder, a natural language-driven tool for building customer service AI agents.
• Agent Builder introduces a zero-prompt approach that compresses agent development from weeks to hours.
• The platform ingests enterprise assets (e.g., standard operating procedures and policies) to create structured instructions and guardrails.