Yac, a provider of voice-based collaboration tools, has raised a new round of investment from GGV Capital and the Slack Fund. Futurum’s Fred McClimans discusses the potential of voice-based messaging as part of enterprise collaboration and why this approach is worth exploring further.
What Voice Assistants Trained to Understand Atypical Speech Mean to The Future of Work
As remote collaboration continues to become the new bedrock of digital collaboration, voice-processing technologies are increasingly embedding themselves in the very platforms that organizations depend on for those types of communications. Improving the accuracy of voice-processing technologies by applying lessons learned from adapting to atypical speech will have significant impact across the board. Futurum’s Olivier Blanchard takes a look at what voice assistants trained to understand atypical speech mean to the future of work as well as a dive into some of the projects currently underway.
Microsoft’s New Employee Experience Platform, Microsoft Viva, Connects Employee Productivity and Wellness to Smoother Work Experiences
Could Microsoft Viva’s plan to humanize the workplace be the key to boosting employee productivity, creativity, and retention? Seeing technology now being used to re-humanize the workplace, humanize workflows, and give people rather than systems more agency and initiative, seems to Futurum’s Olivier Blanchard to be a very positive and welcome change in the enterprise. Microsoft’s new Viva employee experience platform certainly appears to be aiming to deliver on that vision.
Top Enterprise Collaboration Trends In A Post-COVID World
This past year has been a huge catalyst for adoption and improvement of enterprise collaboration tools, and it’s only expected for tech collaboration to grow in 2021.
Cisco WebexOne: Cisco Injects Webex with a Massive Dose of Exciting AI-powered Features
At the Cisco WebexOne event, Cisco rolled out some exciting AI-based upgrades to Webex, suggesting more smart automation in the product’s future. Combine these newest enhancements with Cisco’s commitment to security across its ecosystem, and you’ve got a real winner. If Cisco wanted to show that it too could be one of the cool kids, mission accomplished!
Top 10 Digital Transformation Trends for 2021
What will the biggest tech and digital transformation trends be for 2021? In this piece we highlight 10 of the biggest trends that will impact the way we work, live and communicate in the coming year.
Remote Work Tools Are Hot, But Keep Data Privacy in Mind
In the wake of COVID-19, we are getting an influx of companies that are promising free or expanded services to help employees take on remote work, which at least temporarily will be the new normal.
Zoom Q4 Results: Strong Growth Trajectory, and Guidance for Exactly the Right Product at Exactly the Right Time
Zoom Q4 results showed a strong growth trajectory and guidance, for what is pretty much exactly the right product at exactly the right time.
Poly’s Poly Lens Aims to Increase Collaboration Space Adoption, Simplify IT Ops
The launch of Poly’s Poly Lens offering was announced earlier this month in Amsterdam at Integration Systems Europe (ISE) 2020, the world’s largest show focused on AV and systems integration. The Poly Lens service is designed to increase collaboration space adoption and simplify IT ops. Since adoption of technology within the workplace is the key to successful digital transformation, this service is a no-brainer. I believe digital adoption platforms are quickly becoming the new normal — with good reason.
Zoom Q3 Growth Slows but Its Trajectory Remains Solid
A late look at Zoom Q3 performance, its growth and why the company is on solid footing to be successful in the long run.