Opus Research’s Intelligent Assistants Conference, which began in San Francisco in 2014, is the first, best and only event dedicated to digital self-service
Facebook & Amazon Put Resources Behind Making Bots More Conversational
As “voice first” continues to gain momentum, Facebook and Amazon are leading efforts to make conversational interactions with artificially intelligent automated assistants more natural and seamless.
Enterprise Chatbots: Winning Hearts, Minds and Loyalty in the Digital Age
Chatbots, or intelligent assistants, can overcome traditional silos and forge long-standing, conversational relationships with customers. This Opus Research report explores the expanding roles of chatbots and their impact on digital commerce and the future of customer care.
Chatbots on Messaging Platforms: Ready to Meet the Customer Service Challenge?
In highlighting chatbots from four big-name brands — Kia Motors, Marriott Rewards, KLM, and Expedia — Amy Stapleton concludes that messaging bots are currently best suited for promoting brand awareness and loyalty rather than delivering comprehensive customer service.
Santa’s Little Chatbot Helpers
As 2016 (the “Year of the Chatbot”) winds down, Opus Research’s Amy Stapleton offers up four bots on Facebook Messenger that can play the role of elves and help you simplify the challenge of holiday gift-giving.
Facebook Launches Analytics for Bot Performance
The integration of a bot dashboard into Facebook Analytics for Apps is one more sign that Facebook is making headway in transforming Messenger into a platform for text-based self-service and digital commerce.
When Bots Go Bad: Why We Need Bot Authentication
As witnessed by Microsoft’s infamous chatbot, Tay, bad bots can become cyberbullies generating offensive tweets and potentially learning how to spam, scam and steal. How do we develop secure and safe bots?
Announcing Intelligent Assistants & Intelligent Authentication Conferences San Francisco (Sep 12-13)
Call for speakers for executives involved in digital commerce, customer care, emerging technologies, self-service, fraud reduction, chatbots, continuous authentication, strategy & innovation.
Google Assistant Signals Dominance of Conversational UI
As Google’s newly announced products rollout later this year, more and more customers will be engaging in natural language conversations to find and buy the things they need.
Why Text-Based Commerce is the Future of Intelligent Assistance for Facebook and WeChat
As mobile becomes the preferred way of joining the connected world, will chat and text-based messaging apps be the primary user interface (UI) for intelligent assistance?