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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.
SAP Buys Gigya to Address Demand for Intelligent Authentication
Gigya’s suite of Customer ID and Access Management (CIAM) services will be integrated into the SAP Hybris portfolio of E-Commerce software.
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.
ANZ’s VoiceID Showcases Unique Benefits of Voice Biometrics
Using technology provided by Nuance Communications, the feature on its Grow by ANZ mobile banking app allows voice authorizations of payments and fund transfers blending the security and usability of voice biometrics.
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.