As part of a digital transformation mandate, the Australian government agency greatly enhanced digital self-service in supporting over 50,000 customer interactions thanks to an intelligent assistant developed by Datacom.
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Case Study: Conversational AI Powers DBS digibank’s Virtual Banking Assistant
DBS digibank, India’s first mobile-only bank, is leveraging Kasisto’s conversational AI platform, KAI Banking, to acquire new customers, drive digital engagement and reduce operating costs.
Next IT Tackles IA’s “Black Box” Syndrome Head on With Alme Conversational Intelligence
Next IT has a new service offering that takes the lid off of the “black box” approach to IA by making its library of 90,000 business intents and 165,00 unique actions garnered for 11 vertical industries commercially available.
Case Study: How FedEx Is Leveraging Intelligent Assistants, AI, and Natural Language Understanding
With 12 million shipments a day and a target audience of over 55 million unique visitors to fedex.com, FedEx deployed an AI-powered virtual assistant, handling over 6.7 million conversations in North America alone, yielding an 80%-81% first contact resolution rate.
Intelligent Assistants Conference San Francisco 2017 – Agenda & Presentations
Hosted by Opus Research, IA Conference San Francisco 2017 featured FedEx, IHG, Samsung, Facebook, Jordan-Nike, L’Oreal, Royal Bank of Canada, Comcast, IP Australia, and Ageas Insurance, among others, showcasing how brands and enterprises are introducing intelligent assistants for automated digital self-service, conversational marketing and customer service.
Intelligent Assistants Conference Features Case Studies in Conversational Commerce
The move to Conversational Marketing is a trend that will be tracked in future Opus Research events. Presentations will be available to view on the opusresearch.net web site.
Forrester/Amdocs Survey May Draw Incorrect Conclusions About Virtual Agents
Coverage of a new survey on customer attitudes toward Intelligent Assistants has drawn incorrect conclusions.
Facebook to Charge Businesses for New Direct-to-Customer Messaging Services
A Whatsapp program to charge businesses for better customer communication tools shows Facebook is pursuing a separate monetization strategy than Messenger and could build a robust intelligent assistant program.
Siri Payments from Barclays is State-of-the-Art, For Better and Worse
Barclays UK has certainly upped the ante with Siri payments, fusing electronic person-to-person payments with existing Natural Language Understanding (NLU) and biometric authentication resources.
Share the Excitement Surrounding Intelligent Assistance
In a three-part podcast, “Voice-First” expert Brian Roemmele and Opus Research’s Dan Miller discuss the growing importance and maturity of technologies that support intelligent virtual assistants and bots.