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Is Microsoft’s reality for AI really that different?

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With the cacophony of announcements around Artificial Intelligence (AI) from many of the leading software vendors, you’d be forgiven for believing that each presents a unique direction to be investigated. The reality...
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Using cloud migration to power digital transformation

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Cloud is no longer just a way to streamline processes, it’s a major differentiator. The cloud has become essential to businesses thriving in an ever-changing world. Migrating to the cloud has...
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Why Procurement with Purpose is set to be the ‘New Normal’

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The shock of COVID-19 has been felt all around the world, and it is having a disruptive impact on global supply chains. To this point, consulting and advisory firm Deloitte has...
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4 ways that HR teams can use Identity and Access Management (IAM) for secure...

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As businesses start to take tentative steps out of the COVID-19 pandemic, we are still seeking to understand what our ‘new normal’ is.  Against the backdrop of an ongoing pandemic, we...
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Why Insurtech offers a bright future for Insurers

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For insurance companies to increase business value, they must find a way to increase profits and revenues. To achieve that, they must leverage technology to create efficiencies and new products. This...
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Artificial intelligence is easing the adjustment to a post-Brexit world

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British firms are demonstrating characteristic resilience in the face of Brexit uncertainty. Just six months from the formal withdrawal date and much still remains unknown. Businesses in the UK are considering...
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Microsoft Teams Data Sprawl is Inevitable. Here’s How to Manage It.

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With the pivot to widespread remote work, Microsoft Teams adoption soared in the last year. Teams now boasts 145 million daily active users, according to Microsoft. This is an increase from...
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Only Connect: Smart Retailers Stay Omni-Connected

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For many years now, the term “omnichannel” has served as a useful shorthand for companies that pursue every customer channel to market that is logical to them, often across physical stores,...
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National Minimum Wage changes coming April 2022

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Some big changes are coming up in payroll for 2022/23. One of the largest and most significant changes is the increase in the National Minimum Wage (NMW). The Chancellor, Rishi Sunak,...
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Ten tips for combining working at home with childcare

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If you’re a parent working from home at the moment, ensuring that your children are occupied during school closures will be key. It’s also important to manage expectations – yours, your...

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Planview brings connected work to AWS marketplace

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Planview has taken the opportunity provided by AWS re:Invent to announce that five of its solutions are now available on the AWS Marketplace. This...
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BigCommerce customers start critical holiday shopping season with 10% increase in Cyber Week sales

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BigCommerce has reported its customers experienced another year of increased Cyber Week sales. The company reveals what has been another successful start to the...
Precisely Amazon Redshift Cyara Strengthens AI-based Chatbot Optimization Capabilities with Acquisition of QBox Strategic acquisition delivers advanced conversational AI testing capabilities for improved chatbot accuracy and performance REDWOOD CITY, Calif.—Nov. 28, 2023—Cyara, the leading AI-powered Customer Experience (CX) Assurance Platform provider, today announced its acquisition of industry-leading conversational AI testing company QBox. This strategic move significantly expands Cyara’s conversational AI testing capabilities, solidifying its position as a global market leader in chatbot optimization. The acquisition of QBox complements Cyara’s existing chatbot testing & training capabilities, enabling enterprises to optimize the development, delivery, and impact of their chatbot and conversational AI investments. By combining Cyara’s expertise in CX assurance, including the optimization of conversational AI, with QBox’s unique approach to testing conversational AI applications, organizations will be able to address the needs of the entire team working on chatbots and voicebots, throughout their development lifecycle – from conversational designers to developers to QA professionals to business analysts. “As organizations accelerate their investments in chatbots, voicebots, and conversational AI, the need for optimization,testing and risk management becomes a critical success factor, to ensure flawless digital experiences are delivered at scale efficiently” said Alok Kulkarni, CEO and Co-Founder of Cyara. “This acquisition marks a milestone in Cyara's journey to provide a comprehensive solution for optimizing AI-driven chatbot and voicebot performance and underscores our commitment to ensuring our customers can deliver a seamless and elevated CX in today’s evolving AI landscape.” QBox brings a powerful natural language processing (NLP)-driven platform that allows organizations to fully deploy, test, and continually improve conversational AI chatbots at scale. Designed to assess the quality of NLP training data and evaluate a chatbot's efficiency in serving customers, QBox provides crucial visibility into the impact of changes or additions to the training data model. This insight enables companies to make informed decisions on scaling their chatbots' domain knowledge and understanding performance. Cyara’s acquisition of QBox marks a pivotal step in the company’s ongoing strategy to empower organizations in transforming and enhancing their CX through insights, automation and AI. With this acquisition, Cyara enhances its solution set in two key ways: ● Business Approach to Natural Language Understanding (NLU)/ NLP Testing: Cyara recognizes the diverse needs of product owners, business analysts, and designers in the realm of NLU and NLP testing. The integration of QBox into Cyara's portfolio streamlines the testing process, offering a business-oriented approach that aligns with the priorities of these stakeholders. This enhancement will enable a broader group of stakeholders within an organization to ensure the effectiveness of their conversational AI solutions with efficiency and precision. ● Live-interaction Monitoring: QBox monitors real customer interactions to identify where the bot is performing well, and where it is failing to meet customer needs. This complements Cyara’s approach to bot monitoring whereby we execute a test case to perform a health check and make sure the bot is responding appropriately to critical use cases. “By joining forces with Cyara, we bring together our unique capabilities to solve more use cases for a broader customer base,” said Benoit Alvarez, CEO of QBox. “Together, we can accelerate the advancement of conversational AI testing solutions and provide organizations with the confidence they need in deploying and managing conversational AI-driven interactions effectively.” “We are proud founders of QBox, taking it to market in 2019. Handing the baton to Cyara is an exciting new chapter in conversational AI testing and performance management. Congratulations to Alok and his Team,” said Chris Sykes, CEO, Volume Group. To learn more about Cyara’s conversational AI optimization solutions, visit cyara.com. About

Precisely Data Integrity Suite is Amazon Redshift ready

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Today, Precisely announced at AWS re:Invent, that its Data Integrity Suite has achieved the Amazon Redshift Service Ready designation. It allows customers to replicate...
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Why investing in Influencer Marketing could help your brand

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Vamp has published findings from research conducted by Atomik Research. The research looked at the impact of influencer marketing on purchasing decisions. Vamp is...
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OpenADR Alliance launches new communications standard OpenADR 3.0

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At Enlit Europe 2023, the OpenADR Alliance launched the latest version of its communication standard, OpenADR 3.0. The new standard is not a complete replacement...
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Salesforce reveals Black Friday sales data

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Salesforce has released data based on its global shopping data from more than 1.5 billion consumers powered by Commerce Cloud. Salesforce estimated that Black...
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Anjuna launches Seaglass, a universal confidential computing platform

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Anjuna has announced Anjuna Seaglass. It calls it “the first software platform able to create trusted execution environments that are infrastructure and application agnostic."...
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Adobe say UK shoppers spend £3.45 billion online over Cyber Weekend

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New data from Adobe reveals that after spending £1.04 billion on Black Friday, UK shoppers spent an additional £2.41 billion over the remainder of...
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Praxis Labs announces Pivotal Practice

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Praxis Labs has announced Pivotal Practice. It is built on the latest developments in Generative AI, learning science, and interactive simulations. According to the...
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Cyara acquires Qbox, a conversational AI testing solution

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Cyara has acquired QBox, a UK-based start-up with a tool that provides a comprehensive solution for testing conversational AI applications. The acquisition will strengthen...
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Couchbase adds Capella columnar service for real-time analytics

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Couchbase has announced a new Capella columnar service on Amazon Web Services (AWS). The announcement has come at AWS re:Invent 2023, taking place in Las...
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AWS and Precisely expand AWS mainframe modernisation data replication programme

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At AWS re:Invent, Precisely has announced it is working with AWS to expand AWS mainframe modernisation data replication with Precisely. It enables customers with...
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Black Friday: CX teams dealing with ’emergencies and outages’

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Research from FullStory sheds light on the key challenges and contradictions in the world of website and mobile app optimisation. FullStory surveyed 700 digital...
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iDenfy and ByNoGame deliver secure sales platform

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Lithuanian RegTech vendor iDenfy has partnered with Turkey-based ByNoGame to create a secure sales platform for gaming products. The companies claim that iDenfy's verification...