Practical advice for six key enterprise stakeholders — the IVR team, Contact Center Operations & Management, Systems Design & Development, Digital Commerce & Emerging Technologies, Customer Experience, and Marketing — on how to develop an Intelligent Assistance strategy.
Advisories
Opus Research Report: “Natural Language: The User Interface for the Fourth Industrial Revolution”
Virtual assistants are conditioning individuals to put more trust in conversational technologies and to try new activities and services. In this report, Dan Miller presents how Artificial Solutions’ Teneo Platform delivers a “user-first” intelligent assistant experience that enables businesses to build intelligent natural language applications on any platform, device or language.
Opus Research Report: “Voice Biometrics Census: Steady Growth of Global Enrollments”
Opus Research’s latest voice biometrics census underscores how voice is a ubiquitous, highly personalized authentication factor with the capability to combine command and control with identification and access management.
Opus Research Report: “Voice Authentication For the Digital Age”
Dan Miller, lead analyst & founder with Opus Research, outlines how real-time voice authentication, as a natural, convenient and conversational modality, is serving as a major accelerant to consumer acceptance.
Opus Research Report: “Executive Survey on Speech Analytics | Proven Value and Future Potential”
In a survey commissioned by Uniphore, Opus Research asked 500 influential executives in the contact center and customer experience domain about the perceived value of Speech Analytics and to ascertain the impact on plans to procure and deploy such resources in the future.
Using Voice Biometrics for Strong Authentication and Risk Reduction
This era of self-service, cloud computing and Bring-Your-Own-Device (BYOD) has significantly accelerated the occurrence of fraudulent access, data breaches and identity theft. Hackers and fraudsters have more avenues of ingress to steal credentials and have their way with enterprise networks and data. Voice and multi-factor authentication offer an effective alternative to the prevailing, often ineffective methods and practices.
Voice Biometrics: Changing the Authentication Paradigm
Featured Research Financial institutions can reap significant financial gains by using voiceprints to authenticate through the phone channel. By our calculations, a large money center bank will see over $100 million in economic benefit from reducing fraud loss in the… Read More ›
Gold Systems Leveraging a Long Legacy with Microsoft Lync
Among the handful of Microsoft’s go-to-market partners are involved with Contact Center and Interactive Voice Reponse (IVR) software, Gold Systems stands out with a commitment to Speech at Microsoft extending to the original SpeechServer and unique software, Vonetix, to speed development and simplify management of enterprise apps.
Contrasts in Collaboration: Microsoft, Cisco and IBM
Microsoft, Cisco and IBM are the three major IT infrastructure providers with potential to define how companies can encourage collaboration among employees, customers and business partners. In this advisory we provide a brief assessment of their latest product updates.
Equifax, Anakam and The Future Potential of ID Proofing
Equifax’s acquisition of multifactor authentication specialist Anakam shows that the risk and credit management specialist recognizes the value of stronger ID-proofing in anticipation of the public’s move to mobile commerce and the need for stronger controls on access management to personal information in an increasingly cloud-based world.