In the analytics world, there are a wide range of tools and KPIs to choose from in order to measure your Marketing data. One growing use case is Natural Language Processing (NLP), the act of getting a computer to interpret and analyze data involving human language. NLP is often used to gain a qualitative understanding of the “why” and “what” of a situation, and enables users to make more insightful decisions. In Marketing Analytics, NLP can be used to understand your audience's intentions so that you can create smarter, more…

Latest SAS Platform Release Helps Businesses and Data Scientists Put Analytics in Action by Automating Complex Tasks SAS, the leader in advanced analytics, is enhancing its automated, simple, and powerful analytics platform to help digital disruptors and emerging leaders blaze a trail forward. The updated SAS Platform delivers additional innovation in artificial intelligence (AI), specifically in the areas of machine learning, computer vision, natural language processing (NLP) and other technologies that underpin AI.…

Vainu is Collaborating with Finnish Criminal Sanctions Agency on First Launch AI is becoming mainstream all over — now it is in Finnish prisons. Nordic software company Vainu has started a collaboration with the Finnish Criminal Sanctions Agency to develop its Natural Language Processing (NLP) capabilities. The project will provide Vainu's customers with better company information for their sales, and offers incarcerated people opportunities to learn important skills for their professional life after prison. Vainu is a…

RTB House is a leading provider of technology powered by natural language processing that addresses the brand safety dilemma RTB House – a global company that provides state-of-the-art retargeting built on deep learning for top brands worldwide – announced new capabilities to solve digital advertiser’s brand safety challenges powered by advanced natural language processing. Brand safety is a critical concern for the digital advertising industry. In order to avoid consumer backlash and lost revenue brands and publishers…

The Qordoba Strings Intelligence Platform Is the First Content Management Platform to Use AI to Integrate Emotion Measurement Qordoba, the only platform enabling product and development teams to manage the words in their applications, announced a revolutionary patent registration for measurement of emotional tone in product and marketing content. For content marketing teams, Qordoba scores product content for style, brand, emotion, vocabulary, and grammar, empowering them to improve their product content. Read More: …

SoloSegment announced its acquisition of Thematically's artificial intelligence models and underlying assets, marketed as Thematically Discover, further cementing the company's position as the leader in B2B behavior-based personalization SoloSegment announced its acquisition of Thematically’s artificial intelligence models and underlying assets, marketed as Thematically Discover, further cementing the company’s position as the leader in B2B behavior-based personalization. SoloSegment, founded in 2015, is a SaaS marketing…

Deep learning, a subset of machine learning and artificial intelligence (AI), is predicted to provide formidable momentum for the adoption and growth of artificial intelligence in the Asia-Pacific (APAC) region. The next few years will see deep learning become part of main-stream deployments, bringing commendable changes to businesses in the region, says GlobalData, a leading data and analytics company. GlobalData estimates the APAC region to account for approximately 30% of the global AI platforms’ revenue (around…

Company will leverage coronavirus Public Service Announcement (PSA) as part of its media authentication solution  DoubleVerify (“DV”), a leading software platform for digital media measurement, data and analytics, announced a partnership with the Ad Council – in collaboration with the White House, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) – in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Through this partnership, DV will leverage its media authentication technology to…

Infinilytics’ AI platform will lower costs, improve customer experience, and increase efficiency of claims management in a remote environment Infinilytics, an enterprise artificial intelligence (AI) and analytics provider delivering solutions for insurance organizations, is pleased to announce Intellagents, provider of an API ecosystem for insurers and Insurtechs which facilitates faster connections and profitable innovation, has selected the company’s AI-based solution, CHARLEE, to add insurance claims insights to the …

New Funding Round Led by Insight Partners to Fuel Product Innovation and Accelerate Company Growth Espressive, a pioneer in artificial intelligence (AI) for enterprise service management (ESM), announced $30 million in Series B funding led by global venture capital and private equity firm Insight Partners with participation from Series A investors, General Catalyst, and Wing Venture Capital. Jeff Horing, co-Founder and Managing Director at Insight Partners will also be joining the Espressive Board of Directors. Espressive…

Why is metadata important for an organization building AI and ML models? AI and ML models generally need to train from large quantities of data, and the broad adoption of AI and ML has only been possible due to the widespread accumulation of Big Data over the past decade or so. The challenge is that it’s difficult for Data Scientists to navigate massive Big Data deployments to locate the data they need for their models. Metadata is simply data about data. It describes what data is. Metadata can tell you when a…

The COVID Q&A bot answers questions on the coronavirus symptoms, prevention, and treatment, among other things. It helps people concerned about the coronavirus outbreak to quickly get answers to their burning questions. Marketing Technology News: Tacton Visualization Empowers Customers to See and Interact with Customized Products in Real-Time The bot relies on the information from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the World Health Organization (WHO). The bot is available to medical…

"Businesses must start to think smarter and better in order to establish a sustainable, long-lasting Marketing future – especially when it comes to the use of customer data." Journey into Tech Hi Ian. Tell us about your journey into tech and how you started at Silverbullet. I first entered the world of Advertising and Technology firmly on the direct brand side, where I was the first Global Head of Digital for Bacardi, the world's largest privately held, family-owned spirits company. During my time with Bacardi, I…

"Business leaders should invest time understanding where AI works and where AI struggles." Hi Adam.You come from a very interesting background where you have managed vastly different portfolios. Could you tell us about this enriching journey and how you landed at Luminoso? I think of my career as a sequence of small steps in which I applied what I learned in the past to something new – that, combined with a difficulty saying "no" when asked to do something. When I graduated from college in 1991, we were in a recession;…

With new legislation on the horizon, what does a future with restricted data mean for marketers? Unless you have been under a rock, or not reading your industry press, you will no doubt be aware of California’s attempt to protect its flock with stricter data privacy laws under The CCPA slated for 2020. Others have quickly followed suit with more than fifteen state proposals and a plethora of federal ones that could result in a further complicated patchwork of compliance controls. On top of legislation, consumer…

Talkdesk 20-in-20 program continues with product #5 of 20, a new and innovative approach to knowledge base solutions Talkdesk, Inc., the cloud contact center for innovative enterprises, announced Talkdesk Guide, an intelligent knowledge base that transforms the way businesses organize and provide information to their agents and customers. Powered by artificial intelligence (AI) from Talkdesk iQ, Guide seamlessly integrates information from disparate systems into one cohesive customer experience (CX) solution. Through…

"The rise of Voice search will change the way consumers search and find products, how ad campaigns are run and delivered, which will impact wider Marketing initiatives." Tell us about the major milestones in your career as a Marketing professional? I went from being a Product Marketing manager at a Marketing Cloud company to a CMO in under two years - something I would have never expected. Actually, to be the CMO of a rapidly evolving business like Zoovu is a milestone in itself, the past few months have been a…

Amazon’s latest earnings announcement shouldn’t have come as a surprise. But it was. A week or so ago, when it announced its fiscal fourth quarter, the results were so good, it caught Wall Street off guard. This was because everything is up more than expected - Prime Membership, AWS revenue, and product sales, largely linked to a strong holiday period. If there was ever any doubt, Amazon has once again cemented its status as the most influential player in the e-commerce space. What can other retailers and brands learn from…

The Global Conversational AI Market Expected to Exceed Us$ 16 Billion by 2024 Global AI-driven conversational search platform, Zoovu, announced that it has acquired Belgium-based company, Clever. This move enhances  Zoovu’s current offering by adding NLP and a sophisticated Intent Engine. According to Market Research Engine, the global Conversational AI market is expected to exceed more than US$ 16 Billion by 2024 at a CAGR of 30% in the given forecast period. Clever is a conversational search company that specialises…

Hi Vanya, from spending your time in Seattle to joining an NLP and AI technology company - what inspired you to make this journey? Growing up in Seattle, I was exposed to tech at a pretty young age. Most of my friends’ parents worked for Microsoft. I spent a lot of my free time working on little coding projects, and even started my own business developing Video game mods in high school. Movies like 2001: A Space Odyssey captured my imagination, and gave me a sense that AI was going to be an important part of the…