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Dan Miller has over 25 years experience in marketing, business development and corporate strategy for telecom service providers, computer makers and application software developers. Dan founded Opus Research in 1985 and helped define the Conversational Commerce marketplace by authoring scores of reports, advisories and newsletters addressing business opportunities that reside where automated speech leverages Web services, mobility and enterprise software infrastructure.
As Director of the New Electronic Media Program at LINK Resources from 1980-1983, he helped define one of the first continuous advisory services in the information industry. He then held management positions at Atari, Warner Communications and Pacific Telesis Group (now part of AT&T).
Dan founded Opus Research, Inc. and published Telemedia News & Views, a highly-regarded monthly newsletter regarding developments in voice processing and intelligent network services. He served as Editor-in-Chief of The Kelsey Report, where he also oversaw the launch of advisory services on local online commerce, voice & wireless commerce and global directories.
Dan received his BA from Hampshire College and an MBA from Columbia University Graduate School of Business. He is a frequent speaker at industry conferences. He has been quoted in SpeechTek magazine, the Wall Street Journal, Wired.com, CommWeb and elsewhere. He has also provided commentary on CNN and TechTV.
Contact: [email protected]
Twitter: @dnm54
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Charlie Brown, Lucy, a Football, and Agentic AI
It’s time to include “agent-to-agent” communications while defining the personnel, policy, and procedures in customer care infrastructure.
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Notes An Opus Research Emeritus
It’s been 44 years since I started my first job as a technology analyst…Now that technology is harnessed, conversational, and democratized, my work is done.
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Vonage Plays to its Strengths (APIs and GenAI) with Recent Partnerships
Partnerships with SAP and Salesforce showcase Vonage’s arsenal of features and function have impact up-and-down today’s technology solution stack.
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Zoho Analytics: GenAI Solves BI’s Big Challenges
Zoho Analytics overcomes the challenges of democratizing BI by taking an end-to-end approach with four key focus areas.
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GenAI: Cure for the Common CX Doom Loop
Businesses are well-advised to invest both in technologies that employ GenAI to provide better self-service, and in marketing (customer education) programs that raise awareness of those new, improved customer care resources.
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From IVR to AI-VR; It’s a Done Deal
The emergence of AI-powered voice assistants spells more bad news for the “legacy” technologies that were foundational to the conversion of Interactive Voice Response (IVR) systems’ touch-tone input (Press “1” for Sales) to spoken input.
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Interactions Takes “Task Orchestration” to Task
With the introduction of Task Orchestration, Interactions applies Generative AI (GenAI) in conjunction with “human intelligence” to reduce the time, effort, and expense associated with development and fine-tuning bots.
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Ask Yourself: “Am I Wiretapping Calls With My Own Customers?”
A lawsuit claim that calls to Patagonia are ” intercepted, listened to, recorded, and used by an undisclosed third party….” In this case the third party is contact center as a service (CCaaS) provider Talkdesk.
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Parsing Mpower: NICE’s Integrated “CX AI” Offering
NICE flipped the script when it announced general availability of CXOne Mpower,an elegant integration of products, features and functions already available under the CXOne and Enlighten brands.
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Micosoft’s Latest Dynamics Contact Center Build puts Copilot First
Microsoft is correct to make GenAI the core of a differentiated CCaaS offering. It is a newcomer to CCaaS, yet it has spent more than a decade establishing its bonafides in Conversational AI (the precursor to GenAI).