While it’s been an exciting week for Five9 with news of its impending Zoom acquisition, the company has made some important updates to practical AI solutions for low-code developments for contact centers that are newsworthy as well. Futurum’s Shelly Kramer walks through the updates and provides her analysis here.
Zoho Advances BI and Analytics Platform With New Self-service Approach, Aiming to Radically Transform Data Integrity and Business Insights
Futurum Research Senior Analyst, Steven Dickens provides his analysis on the new functionality announced today by Zoho. With a focus on radically improving the ease of manipulation of data and a focus on enhancing data integrity, Zoho is transforming the insights business users can get from disparate data sources.
Micro Focus Announces First Half Results, Turnaround Continues
Futurum’s Steven Dickens analyzes first half 2021 results for Micro Focus and finds encouraging news on the company’s strategic focus on three year back end transformation and the forging of encouraging partnerships. Micro Focus is focused on explosive growth areas of the market so should be one to watch as they continue to deliver on operational execution.
IBM Launches Enhanced Fan Experience for Wimbledon Tennis Tournament
Futurum’s Steven Dickens provides his take on IBM’s continued support of the Wimbledon tennis championships. IBM is delivering AI-driven enriched fan experiences delivered through IBM Watson and hybrid cloud services to engage new and existing tennis fans globally.
C3 AI Snowflake Partnership Aimed at Delivering Next Gen Enterprise AI Apps at Scale — and Expanding Market Presence
The C3 AI Snowflake partnership is another example of founder and CEO Tom Siebold doing exactly what he said he would do: expand his company’s market presence by way of partnerships. Futurum analyst Shelly Kramer breaks down the details of the C3 AI Snowflake partnership, why it’s a huge win for Snowflake customers, and why smart, strategic partnerships are the path forward.
NVIDIA’s BlueField-2 DPUs and Base Command AI Development Hub Serve up More Power, Less Friction at COMPUTEX 2021
NVIDIA continues to expand its focus and customer value as it rolls out software solutions and service offerings designed to help its customers accelerate their own internal application development and digital transformation initiatives. Futurum Research analyst Fred McClimans breaks down two key announcements from COMPUTEX Taipei 2021.
Microsoft to Buy Nuance, a Voice Recognition AI Leader for $19.7 Billion
Microsoft will acquire Boston-based Nuance Communications for $19.7 billion. Futurum’s Shelly Kramer explores why Nuance’s technology is a perfect fit for Microsoft’s already impressive natural language processing AI capabilities and moreover, how this move will augment the company’s focus on continuing to build its enterprise cloud business at a rapid-fire pace, in healthcare and beyond.
Qualcomm’s Upgradable New Snapdragon X65 Modem Promises to Bring 10gbs speeds to 5G phones as Early as this Year
Qualcomm’s upgradable new Snapdragon X65 modem promises to bring 10gbs speeds to 5G phones as early as this year. Next-gen 5G phones with 10 gigabit per second speeds, all-day battery life, and smart AI-optimized mmWave antennas are coming — and quickly. By delivering not only an upgradeable 10gbs 5G modem but complete RF/RFFE solutions optimized to support global sub-6GHz and mmWave bands, Qualcomm manages yet again to give major OEMs a compelling reason to build their premium and flagship 5G devices around Snapdragon modem-RF systems.
4 Ways AI And ML Enhance The B2B Buyers’ Journey
Just as consumer marketing teams have found AI-driven martech to help them reach their buyers where they are, B2B marketing teams are starting to realize that AI can do similar things to enhance their business customers’ journeys.
4 AI Trends Set To Accelerate In 2021
The coming year is going to see the continued impact of artificial intelligence. Here are four applications that we will see strong continued investment and adoption in 2021.