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Amelia Enhances its Emotional, Contextual, and Process Intelligence to Outwit Chatbots
Jul 05, 2017, by John WillmottIPSoft's Amelia NelsonHall recently attended the IPSoft analyst event in New York, with a view to understanding the extent to which the company’s shift into customer service has succeeded. It immediately became clear that the company is accelerating its major shift in focus of recent years from autonomics to cognitive agents. While IPSoft began in autonomics in support o[...]
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HCL Targets Industry-Specific Processes with RPA - Significant Presence Developing in Banking Sector
Sep 17, 2015, by John WillmottHCL began its robotics program in late 2013. Since then HCL has invested ~$1.5m in robotics, (ToscanaBot Automation Framework), via its HCL ToscanaBot center of excellence, which currently employs a team of ~25 personnel and is planned to grow to 50+ personnel by 2016. HCL estimates that its robotics practice currently has an FTE impact of around 2,000 with this expected to grow to ~8,000 FTE impa[...]
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HCL Launches Enterprise Function as a Service to Support Financial Services Firms in Creation of Utility Models
Apr 07, 2014, by John WillmottHCL has launched a service called EFaaS, Enterprise Function as a Service, to address reducing the operations costs of organizations through creation of specialized utilities. The service is initially targeted at capital markets firms, retail banks, and insurance companies and at the finance, procurement, HR, risk & compliance, legal and marketing functions. The EFaaS service has arise[...]
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BPO Becomes More Strategic in 2014
Jan 01, 2014, by John WillmottBPO becoming more strategic is a major theme among the major BPO trends for 2014. The latter includes: 1. BPO will increasingly contribute to the “C-level” vision and not just fine tune operations 2. BPO will increasingly morph into “business services” 3. BPO governance will become more partnership-oriented as BPO is incorporated within client Global Bus[...]
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Operational Vision Supplants IT Vision with BPO 5.0
Jan 01, 2014, by John WillmottThe increasing expectation of buy-side organizations that the prime role of BPO is to help them deliver a transformed approach to business and become “more relevant to their clients” is having a significant impact on the profile of skills required within BPO delivery. Organizations are no longer content with a short-term tidy up and standardization of their processes but are looking fo[...]