Founded in 2002 in New Jersey, Interactions Corporation offers human-assisted recognition of natural language input. Its technical approach puts live agents into the workflow early and often to promote faster recognition of both utterances and intent.
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The “CRM to VRM Connection”: Dan Miller on the Road to Vendor Relationship Management
Opus Research’s Dan Miller gave the “CRM baseline” presentation at last week’s VRM+CRM 2010 Workshop, conducted by Project VRM and the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard Law School. Thus started discussions of the path from today’s decidedly… Read More ›
The Collaborative Customer Care Genome
High quality customer care relies on rapid recognition of a caller’s intent and equally rapid resolution of outstanding issues. Those tasks are made more difficult in the world of multi-channel, socially aware interactions. Solutions providers are applying the principles of… Read More ›
Cisco Shows Latest IP-Contact Center Collaboration Components
Featured Research Cisco Systems is set to leapfrog rivals in the contact center line of business when it merges Quad, its social media friendly user interface, with the latest revs of its Unified Contact Center platforms. With its competitive sights… Read More ›
Briefing Summary: Cisco’s Focus on the Integrated User Experience
Featured Research Three product lines and six overall objectives were highlighted as Joe Burton, CTO of Cisco’s Unified Communications Business Unit, presented at the company’s “North America Unified Communications Six-Month Update.” According to Burton, the CUBE, IME and IP-CC are… Read More ›
The Nuance/IBM Five-Year Plan: R&D Focused on Understanding
Featured Research The R&D relationship between IBM and Nuance has reached its third stage, now that the two companies have entered a five-year joint research initiative. Their collective objective is to get to the next phase in speech processing, where… Read More ›
New Framing for Twitter: Subsidized Social Contact Center
Featured Research Recent activities and acquisitions by Twitter have been transformational. At Chirp, the first “Official Twitter Developer Conference,” top management discussed the company’s new products, clients and revenue models revealing how Twitter will serve as a central point of… Read More ›
Recombinant Communications Brings New Life to Text-to-Speech
Featured Research The advent of Recombinant Communications has the potential to breathe new life into some well-established voice processing technologies – including text-to-speech (TTS) rendering. New applications “read” Tweets, email and text messages easily. New platforms allow tuning of output… Read More ›
Shopping Across Channels: A Survey of Customer Preferences
Featured Research In both preference and practice, people have established personal hierarchies surrounding the channels through which they carry out conversations with selected vendors. An Opus Research survey of roughly 1,000 respondents shows the order in which they turn to… Read More ›
Fear No Google: Or What to Do As the Sultan of Search Morphs into a Phone Company
Featured Research Google continues to impress fans and pundits with its VoIP-based utilities (Google Voice), multimedia instant messaging client (Google Talk), branded DNS, mobile OS, scads of “dark fiber” and now, reportedly, a phone of its own. Incumbent carriers and… Read More ›