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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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Google’s Duplex Paradox
“Have your bot call my bot.” That used to sound like the punchline of a bad joke about IA’s dystopic future. But it is a prospect that is no longer funny or farfetched, as was made amply clear when Google’s CEO Sundar Pichai showed off the latest conversational capabilities associated with Google Assistant.
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From Cisco to Five9: A Journey that Symbolizes the State of Intelligent Assistance
The month of May has brought with it a number of executive moves and company acquisitions with direct bearing on Conversational Commerce. Cisco acquired Accompany, a startup whose core product is termed a “Virtual Assistant” by some accounts and, perhaps more accurately, an “adaptive virtual chief of staff.”
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The Avaya/Afiniti Partnership Applies Artificial Intelligence to Precision Routing
Communications giant Avaya and “AI-Pairing” specialist Afiniti have teamed up to use pattern matching to determine customer identity and attack the challenges of “Precision Without Surveillance”
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NICE InContact Adds Omilia’s Conversational Technology Stack to its CXExchange
As Contact Center as a Service (CCaaS) providers fight the battle against becoming commodities, adding Intelligent Assistance capabilities takes center stage. The latest case in point is this announcement from NICE InContact officially adding Omilia to its CXexchange.
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Apple Business Chat: Conversational Commerce in the Post Facebook World
A little less than a year later, we’re observing that some of Apple’s partners have been more effective than others in enlisting recognized brands into the iMessage Business Chat fold.
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Jacada Interact Preparing for the Autonomous Customer
Autonomous CX is made possible by Jacada’s core Interact Platform (now on its 10th version).
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Commerce Revisited: Defining “The Second C” in C3
Now that “Conversational Commerce” is officially a ‘thing’ and I claim to be one of the people who coined the term, it’s useful to march through its origin.
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Verint Assimilates Next IT with Impressive Speed; Launches Intelligent Customer Self-Service Capabilities
With the introduction of “Intelligent Customer Self-Service Capabilities,” Verint has onboarded and integrated assets, technology and personnel of recent acquisitions in record time.
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Beyond Compliance: GDPR, ePrivacy to Drive Demand for Intelligent Assistance
We entered 2018 with acute awareness that there is a need for easy-to-use tools that enable individuals to take control of their digitally enhanced lives by using their own words.
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IBM’s Patent Enforcement Efforts To Impact Both Intelligent Assistance and Intelligent Authentication
IBM is laying the foundation for collecting licensing fees from every company offering omnichannel, device agnostic, conversational services.