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Most companies now know that customer experience is the main driver of business performance, so modern brands are putting their customers at the heart of everything they do. CX has become the main battleground for competition, and organizations aren’t keeping the purse strings tight when it comes to experience spending — IDC reports that this year, worldwide spending on CX technologies will reach a whopping $508 billion. That upward trajectory isn’t likely to abate any time soon, either. IDC expects CX tech spending to…

By the end of 2019, the total value of eCommerce retail sales could reach $3.4 trillion, closing a decade of steady growth. The online shopping landscape has developed massively to provide a constantly better experience for shoppers. And with the ever-growing consumer demands, novel technologies, and fresh practices, maybe the best is yet to come. The only way to stay ahead of the curve is by keeping an eye on the latest trends. So, what should eCommerce retailers focus on to welcome the new decade in all its glory? 1.…

A website creates those first few precious impressions on potential customers. It’s at the heart of any digital marketing activity and a key touch-point for a business to start a conversation with its audience. Many marketers struggle to get leads from this essential online marketing channel. In a dynamic business environment, it’s critical to work on implementing the latest lead generation tools and strategies on your business website. Wondering how it all works? Here are some unique and productive ways to turn your…

The retail sector is going through a monumental transformation. The deepening high street crisis is placing huge pressure to keep customers coming through the doors – while increasing back-office efficiencies to cut costs. Automation in the Workplace RPA is growing fast: Gartner Inc. predicts that by the end of 2022, 85% of large and very large organizations will have adopted some form of RPA. That’s because RPA offers not just productivity benefits, but also a reduction in error rates and huge processing capability. It…

Transforming Customer Service from Cost Center to Profit Center Leads to Triple Digit Revenue Growth; Positions Company for Explosive 2020 Ada, the market leader for Automated Customer Experience (ACX), is disrupting the customer service sector with a fundamentally new approach that brings an automation first strategy to drive cost savings and improved CSAT. Ada replicates manual behavior with machine learning freeing up expensive agents to pursue more meaningful, urgent tasks on behalf of customers. With Ada’s…

PeopleSoft customers can take advantage of this limited-time offer to lift and shift their PeopleSoft FSCM, HCM, and CS applications to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure free of charge with a qualifying Managed Services Agreement Astute Business Solutions announces an industry-first Zero Cost Migration Service of PeopleSoft applications to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI). Astute is a leading provider of Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, Oracle Analytics Cloud, Oracle Digital Assistant/Chatbot Services and Solutions and is a Gold…

Appy Pie is all set to make 2020 big for small businesses and is working towards bringing a smart and DIY design solution. Graphic design is a difficult craft to master. To excel at it, a designer must be proficient, have an eye for aesthetics and be able to afford expensive software. However, with technology evolving consistently, Appy Pie has found the perfect solution for this conundrum with its new, soon to be launched platform - Design Studio. Currently under testing, Appy Pie's Design Studio will be launched in 2020…

Appy Pie has introduced the perfect chatbot builder for banks to help them improve their support services and connect with the customers in a better way. Appy Pie's chatbot builder allows users to create chatbots that don't need any coding. They work continuously and remain available for their users round the clock. Appy Pie's Chatbot Builder lets you build chatbots without coding, with various effective features including customized chats and designs, live agent transfer, appointment booking system and many more. Appy…

Nearly half of U.S. employees say their company has embedded AI into their standard business processes, and more than half of employees fear that they’ll lose their jobs to advanced automation and robots. However, in the midst of the chatter around how AI may be taking jobs away, we’re neglecting a very important discussion: how can AI actually improve jobs? This is a particularly necessary conversation for brands and marketers looking to use technology to boost sales or reduce customer churn, but what areas are important…

Unscrambl's qbo CX, an AI-powered contextually-aware and location-aware chatbot developed for UnionBank, wins Highly Acclaimed Chatbot Service Unscrambl, the company democratizing data discovery and insights consumption to accelerate the way businesses make decisions, announced today that its partner, Union Bank of the Philippines (UnionBank), has received the award for Highly Acclaimed Chatbot Service at the 2019 Global Retail Banking Innovation Awards in Singapore. Unscrambl developed the chatbot to enhance customer…

Traditional landline phones have been our comrade in thick and thin, for centuries. It was admittedly one of the greatest human-made inventions in the books of history whose contribution in the human race’s upliftment can’t be disregarded. However, as time progresses, some new inventions like VoIP in the world of telecommunication have transcended this old-school means of communication. The VoIP-based office or business phone system is capable of doing more than you could ever imagine with the traditional landline-based…

I would like to start with the fact that the retail market today is developing by leaps and bounds, but traders by the way also do not stand still. On the contrary, they gradually seize the initiative by introducing Artificial Intelligence into their products. Note, when the many things were simply impossible, but thanks to the arrival chatbots much has changed. Chatbots are one of the most effective tools in building relationships between customers. More and more retailers choose E-Commerce chatbots as a primary…

63% of Britons Don’t Believe That the Big Messaging Platform Providers Respect Their Privacy Rights Open-Xchange, the open source communications software provider, announces the results of a UK consumer survey conducted by Censuswide. The survey examines attitudes towards the big messaging platform providers (i.e. Facebook Messenger, WhatsApp), as well as wider consumer trust in the technology sector. The geopolitical issues affecting Huawei appear to have had little effect on how UK consumers view the Chinese firm. Only…

As part of customers’ communications shifting to digital, messaging is one of the fastest growing channels: 67% of people now expect to use messaging apps to talk to businesses. To accompany this trend, GAFAs are opening new business messaging channels such as WhatsApp Business Solution and Apple Business Chat. While they may look similar at first glance, each of them have their specifics in terms of user base, features, entry points… We have gathered the top 4 messaging channels to help you understand their specifics…

Do you receive a lot of traffic on your website? That’s great. But how many of these visitors end up buying something on your site? High traffic but a low conversion rate is a problem faced by many organizations. However, it is an easy problem to fix if you invest in the right technology to give your customers what they want – a great experience. But what constitutes a great experience remains a mystery for most businesses who are grappling in the dark to satisfy their customers’ needs without even knowing what they want.…

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…

Capacity officially introduced its secure, AI-native knowledge sharing platform. Designed to meet the expectations of today’s workforce, Capacity is a cloud-based system built on AI that captures, mines, and connects organizational knowledge to maximize employee productivity. The company also announced that it raised $13.2 million in Series B funding from a Midwest network of private and angel investors to help support company growth and scale its technology. “We couldn’t be more excited to launch our AI-powered knowledge…

Nextep's newest support feature provides around-the-clock support Nextep added a new support feature, Felix the chatbot, to its service team. Felix answers questions 24/7, giving Nextep's clients immediate help, day or night. "Our chatbot is one way to better serve our clients and their employees," said Brian Fayak, Nextep founder and CEO. "We place a high value on customer service and quick support, and Felix allows us to lend support to our people at any time of day." Marketing Technology News: Placements.io Hires…

"With a chatbot, companies can optimize time and money by doing multiple tasks and pursuing different goals from the same place" Tell us about your role and journey into Technology. What inspired you to start at Aivo? My journey into technology started back when I was a teenager, as I worked fixing computers during my free time. When I went to college, I started studying Computer Software Engineering, but then I realized studying wasn’t for me so I dropped out. After a few small entrepreneurship projects, in 2005 I…

Artificial Solutions, the leading specialist in enterprise-strength conversational AI, announced the general availability of Teneo Developers, a portal created to help developers frustrated by the lack of capability and intelligent design in the general chatbot marketplace. "The majority of conversational AI development tools don't cut it in the real world," says Lawrence Flynn, CEO of Artificial Solutions. "You can build a bot to perform simple 'slot filling' tasks, but more complex dialogs will need to be built from…