Webex CX 2025: A Defining Year for AI-Powered Experience

2025 recap: Webex transforming customer experience with connected and intelligent innovations.

Customer expectations have been rising for years, but in 2025 the pace of change accelerated dramatically. What began as growing interest in AI quickly evolved into large-scale adoption, measurable outcomes, and a new standard for what great customer experience should look like. Across industries and around the world, organizations embraced intelligent automation, empowered their agents with real-time insights, modernized their operations, and delivered more personalized journeys than ever before.

For Webex, 2025 became the year Connected Intelligence moved from vision to reality. AI, data, and human expertise flowed across the customer journey — shaping interactions, accelerating resolutions, and powering seamless engagement at a scale we’ve never seen before. Our customers embraced agentic AI, deployed AI-assisted workflows, expanded omnichannel capabilities, and reimagined service operations with new levels of automation and insight.

It was a year defined by momentum, innovation, and trust. And as we look back, one thing is clear: 2025 didn’t just elevate customer experience — it redefined what’s possible.

AI Agent launch unlocks the next era of intelligent self-service.

In March, we made a significant announcement about the general availability of a fully autonomous voice and digital agent. Unlike traditional bots or scripted flows, Webex AI Agent represented a major leap toward action-oriented AI —it listens, understands, behaves and responds like a human with empathy and precision across voice, chat, and digital self-service channels, making customers feel heard and understood. It remembers context, adapts mid-conversation, and can take action – delivering real-time resolutions, turning customer frustration into seamless interactions.

All of this resulted in the Webex AI Agent driving operational efficiency by delivering 24/7 intelligent service, reducing routine inquiries, and freeing human agents to focus on complex, high-value conversations.

Customers saw exceptional results from the Webex AI Agent deployments:

85% fewer escalations.
70% reduction in dropped-call complaints.
35% decrease in support tickets.
And 72% of customers rated AI Agent as equal or better than a human agent.

Read more on how Webex AI agent momentum and adoption fueled transformative results for the leading global brands.

At the same time, Cisco AI Assistant in Contact Center expanded its capabilities to streamline agent workflows by automating repetitive tasks and delivering contextual information precisely when needed. Intelligent features, such as suggested responses and comprehensive call summaries, help agents respond swiftly and confidently.

Supervisors also benefit from enhanced desktop tools that provides deeper insights, real-time operational visibility, topic analytics and coaching capabilities. This empowers them to coach talent, optimize performance, and drive exceptional outcomes, a win-win for the agents, supervisors, and the customers.

March set the tone for the year ahead — AI would be everywhere, and it would be deeply embedded into daily work.

Webex expands AI capabilities with major mid-year releases, including on-premises

By mid-year, AI wasn’t just being talked about — it was delivering results.

In June at Cisco Live US, we showcased how the AI innovations empowered businesses to go beyond being reactive to creating an automated, always-on front door using a mix of proactive communications and intelligent self-service to deliver meaningful interactions. From anticipating customer needs to automating complex workflows and using data-driven insights to continuously improve business outcomes, Webex gave organizations the tools they needed to delight customers at every touchpoint.

We introduced new pre-built templates dramatically simplifying building and deploying AI agents within the healthcare and finance industries. And with flexible LLM selection, businesses gained more control over how AI Agents are trained and optimized. Another big announcement was the general availability of CCE Release 15, offering a refreshed platform, additional digital channel capabilities, scalability improvements, security and accessibility enhancements. Additionally, this release also brought our exciting AI innovations to on-premises customers, enabling them to utilize Webex AI Agent and AI Assistant capabilities.

Meanwhile at Customer Contact Week, Webex Customer Experience (CX) took the opportunity to showcase how AI is transforming experiences and redefining the future of customer service and contact center operations. The ‘Building your own AI agent’ demo provided visitors with the opportunity to sit down with Cisco product experts and design their own Webex AI Agent. This hands-on session showcased how intuitive and customizable the Webex design environment is, empowering businesses to create AI agents tailored to their specific needs.

It was also this timeframe where the analyst recognition accelerated. Webex Contact Center was named a Customers’ Choice on Gartner Peer Insights, with a 96% willingness to recommend, up 20 points year over year. A proud recognition for the entire Webex team!

By June, AI wasn’t a demo. It was a differentiator.

A breakthrough moment for Connected Intelligence across the CX portfolio.

In October, all the year’s innovation and momentum converged at WebexOne 2025 in San Diego.

The theme: Connected Intelligence — intelligence that isn’t confined to one agent, one channel, or one team, but flows across the entire customer journey.

Several major announcements pushed the industry forward:

Webex AI Agent became more natural, more collaborative.

Newly enhanced voice capabilities delivered human-like fluency, supported by lower latency, predictive turn-taking, and real-time barge-in. With the introduction of Agent-to-Agent (A2A) collaboration and Model Context Protocol (MCP), AI Agents could now work together — or with human agents — to solve complex issues faster.

Webex AI Quality Management redefined operational excellence for Human & AI Agents.

Instead of sampling a fraction of interactions, supervisors can now evaluate every customer interaction across AI agent and human agent assistance to better manage CX in the contact center. The result: real-time insights, improved coaching, and greater visibility across the entire workforce.

Cisco AI Assistant became even more empowering.

Suggested Responses, mid-call summaries, automatic wrap-up notes, and multilingual support helped agents deliver faster, more empathetic support with less effort.

Ecosystem integrations unlocked new levels of customization.

AWS, Epic, and Salesforce integrations reinforced Cisco’s open platform strategy — enabling organizations to unify data, extend automation, and strengthen omnichannel service within the tools they already use.

Connected Intelligence came alive through immersive demos. From the voice AI agent quiet cube demos to the Build Your Own AI Agent lab, attendees left convinced that AI-powered CX could be both powerful and intuitive. We even brewed up something special at the Webex Cafe this year, adding an autonomous voice-enabled AI Barista, powered by AI Agent, to the lineup. Check out the 5 demos that stole the show at WebexOne 2025.

WebexOne didn’t just introduce features — it showcased a connected vision for the future. See how Webex AI Agent and Cisco devices came together at WebexOne to create the Quiet cube experience.

A record year for growth, momentum, and customer trust.

Momentum wasn’t confined to events. It showed up across customer deployments, AI adoption of the features, platform expansion, and global scale.

Webex Contact Center product orders saw double digit growth year over year in Q1 FY 2026, delivered over 200+ new features, increased global footprint to 160 countries, announced plans to expand into India and Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, and scaled to support deployments of 50,000+ voice agents, including Maersk’s 15,000-seat global contact center.

Read more of these customer success stories across various industry verticals here.

Meanwhile, customer trust drove industry recognition across every major body:

2025 Customers’ Choice for Contact Center as a Service on Gartner Peer Insights™
IDC 2025 CX Contact Center Customer Satisfaction Award
Frost & Sullivan North America CX Platforms Radar Leader
Multiple TrustRadius 2026 Buyer’s Choice Awards including Webex Contact Center
G2 leadership across categories

Looking ahead: 2026 will be even more connected and integrated across the collaboration portfolio

As strong as 2025 was, the road ahead is even more exciting. We’re proud of the acceleration so far, but we’re not slowing down. Our commitment to delivering innovation and business outcomes remains stronger than ever. Expect even more advancements that improve customer experience, with exciting announcements coming at Cisco Live EMEA and other marquee events in 2026.

From deeper orchestration to even more intuitive, globally scalable automation, 2026 will continue the march toward fully connected, end-to-end intelligent experiences.

Thank you ❤️

To our customers, partners, and the entire CX community —heartfelt thank you.

Your trust, feedback, and inspiration fuel our innovation and shape every product and feature we ship. We’re honored to be part of your CX transformation and excited to build an even more intelligent future together. For customers and prospects, who want to learn how Webex’s flexible solutions can help transform your customer experiences, I encourage you to reach out to our Sales team to discuss your specific business needs.

Here’s to an extraordinary 2025 — and an even brighter 2026. Have a wonderful festive season from the entire Webex Customer Experience team!

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About The Author

Manu Parhar Director of Product Marketing Cisco

Manu currently serves as Director of Product Marketing for the Webex Customer Experience Solutions portfolio, which includes Webex Contact Center, an AI-powered customer experience platform and Webex Connect, a cloud communications platform (CPaaS).

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