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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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New ID R&D Product Focuses on Fraud Prevention in Contact Centers
Fighting “new account fraud” is the target of IDFraud™ Contact Center, a new product offering from ID R&D whose stock-in-trade is biometric-based, conversational authentication, fraud reduction and liveness detection.
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Nuance Mix: Intelligent Assistant Development Platform for DIYers
Nuance Communications took a giant step toward democratizing Enterprise IA development with Nuance Mix, tools and APIs for do-it-yourself developers.
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Pandemic Portends Positive Changes for Contact Centers
Home agents in distributed contact centers are being called upon more frequently, with more tasks to perform. This is the opportunity for Conversational Service Automation (CSA) to shine.
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Telus International Partners with Thrio for Global Cloud Contact Center Offering
Telus International’s partnership with Thrio brings global scale to Native Process Automation (NPA), a highly flexible approach to adding Conversational AI to agent or customer workflows.
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Lumenvox-OneVault Partnership Fosters IAuth Ecosystem
OneVault has formalized its partnership with Lumenvox and created a partner-friendly ecosystem to address growing set of voice biometrics use cases.
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IAuth Takes on High Profile at RSA Conference
Opus Research caught up with execs from Pindop, Nuance, Next Caller, Nok Nok Labs, Payfone and Biocatch to talk through the latest progress into Intelligent Authentication #IAuth
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Cisco Clarifies its AI-Infused Contact Center Strategy
At its recent “Analysts’ Deep Dive”, Cisco Systems stepped up to the challenge of bringing clarity to the priorities and positioning of its Contact Center business unit. Acquisitions and related ‘acquihires’ over the past couple of years had led to… Read More ›
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Zoho Fortifies a Formidable Solution Stack With AI
Zoho’s “Analyst Day” provided nothing short of a throw-down to the leading providers of cloud-based software suites, highlighting activities with elements of AI and an unprecedented commitment to privacy protection.
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Reflections on Project Voice: A New Medium Takes Shape
Project Voice showcased the high levels of energy, creativity and humor that characterizes a mature medium — and it bodes well for the #VoiceFirst ecosystem.
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“2020 Vision” for Conversational Commerce: Five Things We Must Get Right
It would be poetic justice for 2020 to be the year that everything in Conversational Commerce comes into focus; but that is too much to ask. Still, several positive trends are afoot as we enter the second decade of the… Read More ›