Lytics has launched Lytics View, a quick-start process that generates AI-based offer and product recommendations in as little as one week. Data is fed into the system by Lytics’ own Web site tag, avoiding the delays of conventional data integration. Of course, you’ll probably want to add other sources eventually and there’s still that pesky need to connect with customer-facing systems to deliver the recommendations.

You probably suspected as much, but this Calabrio study confirms that contact centers have largely switched to remote work and 72% of agents are happy with the switch. Less obvious: 72% of managers are satisfied with remote worker productivity. Slightly fewer (63%) expect the pandemic’s impact on customer service will be permanent.

Salesforce has reversed course on its bid to acquire data management and integration platform Informatica a source has told Reuters. Informatica itself said that it is not in talks to be acquired. Salesforce stocks rose on this latest news while Informatica’s fell.