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Derek Top, Principal Analyst & Research Director, Opus Research
Derek Top is Principal Analyst and Research Director for Opus Research, a diversified advisory firm tracking how AI, LLMs, and advanced technologies are impacting customer experiences and enterprise applications. For more than 20 years, he has been covering technology innovation and spearheading analysis about how Conversational AI and Conversational Intelligence technologies transform businesses and reshape customer experiences.
Previously, Top served as senior associate editor with Optimize magazine and InformationWeek covering business technology and enterprise IT trends for CMP Media and UBM. Before joining CMP, Top was managing editor with Streaming Media, Inc. Prior to Opus Research, he was senior editor and program director at the Trellis Group. There he helped produce the VERGE conference series and wrote about how technology convergence drives innovation for smart energy and sustainability.
Contact: dtop@opusresearch.net
Twitter: @derektop
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Aspect Poised to Deliver Solid Offerings for Omnichannel, Cloud Services
Aspect has done nice job of connecting key market trends to their product and services offerings
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Adtech Global Ignite Delivers Business Value with Speech Analytics
Adtech Global Ignite, based on Verint’s 360 Speech Analytics solutions, enhances value through deep understanding of the customer journey.
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Why West Acquired SchoolMessenger: A Natural Fit for Conversational Commerce
This acquisition by West will fit in nicely into their omnichannel outbound strategy focused on the education market.
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Zendesk and the Art of Cloud-Based Customer Care
Cloud-based contact center service providers have recently announced integration with web-based, help desk provider Zendesk. Among them, Interactive Intelligence, 8×8, and Five9
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Why I Joined Opus Research. It’s Heresy!
Why I decided to join Opus Research, a leading market analyst firm in self-service, multimodal customer care, voice biometrics, place-based marketing, and intelligent assistants.