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SumTotal Systems Enhances Customer Support with Cloud

NICE inContact

An acquisition in 2011 proved to be especially fortuitous for SumTotal. From CXone Omnichannel Routing, ACD/IVR and Reporting, SumTotal has continued to add CXone products to its contact center operation, including CXone Agent for Salesforce®, CXone APIs and CXone Voice as a Service (VaaS). Read more about SumTotal’s results.

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How to win a hackathon: 7 lessons learned

Talkdesk

Back in 2011, this idea was as disruptive and new to the industry as the industry was new to me, but some years later, here I am, sharing with you the lessons learned on my journey from hackathon to unicorn. Practice makes perfection: Prepare your pitch In 2011, I was invited to fly to San Francisco and formally pitch the idea of Talkdesk.

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Hoveround Successfully Navigates Customer Service ? Increases Lead Conversion 116%

NICE inContact

In fact, Hoveround, a NICE inContact customer since 2011, was one of the first companies to use CXone Personal Connection, a patented proactive outbound dialer that generates more revenue and fewer hang-ups.

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Predicting new and existing product sales in semiconductors using Amazon Forecast

AWS Machine Learning

Next, we called the create_dataset function from the Boto3 API to create a dataset with attributes such as Domain, DatasetType, DatasetName, DatasetFrequency, and Schema. The Boto3 API provides the create_auto_predictor function for training an auto prediction model. We next calculated the MAPE for the actual sales values.

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The New Call Center Era – What Just Happened?

Fonolo

This is an established pattern in the software world, beautifully explained in the video The World Through APIs by Martin Casado of A16Z. In 2011, there were only 150 different marketing technology solutions, now there are thousands. They list Twilio as one of their examples.). Where We’re Headed.

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Question answering using Retrieval Augmented Generation with foundation models in Amazon SageMaker JumpStart

AWS Machine Learning

There are a few limitations of using off-the-shelf pre-trained LLMs: They’re usually trained offline, making the model agnostic to the latest information (for example, a chatbot trained from 2011–2018 has no information about COVID-19). They’re mostly trained on general domain corpora, making them less effective on domain-specific tasks.

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Halo Smart Labs Develops a Smarter Smoke Alarm: IoT at It’s Best

Natalie Petouhof

Co-founder and CEO Ben Stagg questioned the effectiveness of tornado warning systems after his father was in Joplin, Missouri in 2011, when tornadoes hit the area and killed nearly 160 people. It was created in 2012 after a brush with tragedy. The disaster gave him the idea of using technology to increase human safety.