ShepHyken

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

I recently saw a picture of an old Steak ‘n Shake restaurant. It reminded me of when my grandparents used to take me to Steak ‘n Shake every Sunday for lunch. As a kid, I loved their slogan, which was a rhyme: “In Sight, It Must Be Right.” The slogan originated from the restaurant’s founder, Gus Belt, who would bring a barrel of steaks into the restaurant and grind them into burgers in front of the customers.

Enterprise 216

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AWS Machine Learning

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

In the field of generative AI , latency and cost pose significant challenges. The commonly used large language models (LLMs) often process text sequentially, predicting one token at a time in an autoregressive manner. This approach can introduce delays, resulting in less-than-ideal user experiences. Additionally, the growing demand for AI-powered applications has led to a high volume of calls to these LLMs, potentially exceeding budget constraints and creating financial pressures for organizatio

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C3Centricity

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

Many brands today claim to be consumer-first or consumer-led. However, their attempts often fall short of expectations, resulting in actions that lack the authenticity and depth consumers seek. Radical Consumer Centricity changes that. This approach involves embedding consumer insights into every part of a company, driving long-term success by anticipating and meeting consumer needs precisely.

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AWS Machine Learning

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

This post is co-written with Curtis Maher and Anjali Thatte from Datadog. This post walks you through Datadog’s new integration with AWS Neuron , which helps you monitor your AWS Trainium and AWS Inferentia instances by providing deep observability into resource utilization, model execution performance, latency, and real-time infrastructure health, enabling you to optimize machine learning (ML) workloads and achieve high-performance at scale.

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Savvy B2B marketers know that a great account-based marketing (ABM) strategy leads to higher ROI and sustainable growth. In this guide, we’ll cover: What makes for a successful ABM strategy? What are the key elements and capabilities of ABM that can make a real difference? How is AI changing workflows and driving functionality? This Martech Intelligence Report on Enterprise Account-Based Marketing examines the state of ABM in 2024 and what to consider when implementing ABM software.

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Cisco - Contact Center

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

Cisco has integrated the Isovalent platform into our infrastructure to ensure our cloud workloads are protected without compromising on performance.

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Cisco - Contact Center

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

See how resilience and purpose led Hector C. from military service to a fulfilling career at Cisco, where he is empowering communities and driving innovation.

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AWS Machine Learning

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

Thousands of companies worldwide use Salesforce to manage their sales, marketing, customer service, and other business operations. The Salesforce cloud-based platform centralizes customer information and interactions across the organization, providing sales reps, marketers, and support agents with a unified 360-degree view of each customer. With Salesforce at the heart of their business, companies accumulate vast amounts of customer data within the platform over time.

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Cisco - Contact Center

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

Cisco's new SD-WAN Configuration Catalog simplifies industrial deployments - reducing setup time, errors, and enhancing security for Industrial IoT networks

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AWS Machine Learning

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

Large language models (LLMs) have come a long way from being able to read only text to now being able to read and understand graphs, diagrams, tables, and images. In this post, we discuss how to use LLMs from Amazon Bedrock to not only extract text, but also understand information available in images. Amazon Bedrock is a fully managed service that offers a choice of high-performing foundation models (FMs) from leading AI companies like AI21 Labs, Anthropic, Cohere, Meta, Mistral AI, Stability AI

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NobelBiz

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

Choosing a call center service provider is an important decision that affects customer satisfaction, ongoing efficiency, and brand reputation. Customer interactions can be improved, workflows can be streamlined, and cutting-edge technology solutions can be provided by the right provider, elevating your business. Inefficiencies, higher costs, and customer dissatisfaction can be led to by a mismatched provider—this can happen.

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AWS Machine Learning

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

This post is co-written with Isaac Smothers and James Healy-Mirkovich from Crexi. With the current demand for AI and machine learning (AI/ML) solutions, the processes to train and deploy models and scale inference are crucial to business success. Even though AI/ML and especially generative AI progress is rapid, machine learning operations (MLOps) tooling is continuously evolving to keep pace.

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CSM Magazine

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

Meesho, the rapidly growing social eCommerce platform has introduced an AI-powered voicebot to enhance user experience and provide round-the-clock customer support. Key highlights from the launch include: 24/7 Availability: The voicebot allows customers to receive support at any time, addressing queries and issues without delays. Cost Reduction: Meesho reports that the implementation of agentic AI has led to a 90% reduction in customer support chat costs, demonstrating significant operational ef

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AWS Machine Learning

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

Stock technical analysis questions can be as unique as the individual stock analyst themselves. Queries often have multiple technical indicators like Simple Moving Average (SMA), Exponential Moving Average (EMA), Relative Strength Index (RSI), and others. Answering these varied questions would mean writing complex business logic to unpack the query into parts and fetching the necessary data.

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Over the last two years, there’s been a 76 percent increase in AI adoption across sales organizations. The reason for its rise? AI increases teams’ productivity by predicting and automating actions that require manual effort. In other words, the research that takes reps hours, AI can do in seconds. For sales teams, AI opens up a world of new possibilities, including automating outreach, identifying best-fit buyers, and keeping CRMs flush with fresh data.

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CSM Magazine

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

A well-designed customer journey has become essential for brand success, with 73% of consumers emphasizing that customer experience strongly influences their purchasing choices. As expectations rise, companies are increasingly turning to advanced platforms like MarketOwl to harness AI for customer engagement and deliver seamless, personalized interactions across various channels.

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ChurnZero

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

This is a guest article by Swati Garg , founder and CEO, Melo Associates , and Lindsay Lynch , senior recruitment consultant, Melo Associates , a recruitment firm focused on customer success hiring for SaaS and tech companies nationwide. Hiring the right talent for your company’s customer success team determines its success. A clear, detailed, and well-written customer success job description is essential to attract the right candidate while providing important information about th

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AWS Machine Learning

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

With the rise of large language models (LLMs) like Meta Llama 3.1, there is an increasing need for scalable, reliable, and cost-effective solutions to deploy and serve these models. AWS Trainium and AWS Inferentia based instances, combined with Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS), provide a performant and low cost framework to run LLMs efficiently in a containerized environment.

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CSM Magazine

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

The mortgage industry has come a long way from piles of paperwork and lengthy approval processes. Thanks to advances in technology, getting a mortgage has never been more streamlined or customer-friendly. Today’s digital tools are transforming how mortgage lenders interact with clients, making the experience faster, more transparent, and less stressful.

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Dialer 360

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

Have you ever think how companies make sure they don’t phone customers who are not interested? For this purpose, companies choose DNC scrubbing which is the method to give protection by eliminating phone numbers that are on federal do not call registers. It is necessary to comply with Federal laws and state regulations when you trying to maintain marketing compliance.

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CSM Magazine

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

Technology – if harnessed effectively – can help companies improve customer experience by providing proactive support during today’s tough economic climate. Richard Farrell, CIO at Netcall , explains. Amid the ongoing cost of living crisis, people are struggling to afford the essentials. And when they reach out for help, often utility providers – including water, electricity, and gas, are failing to respond in a way that is frictionless and satisfactory due to a lack of digital capability, along

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AWS Machine Learning

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

This post is co-written with Ken Kao and Hasan Ali Demirci from Rad AI. Rad AI has reshaped radiology reporting, developing solutions that streamline the most tedious and repetitive tasks, and saving radiologists’ time. Since 2018, using state-of-the-art proprietary and open source large language models (LLMs), our flagship product— Rad AI Impressions — has significantly reduced the time radiologists spend dictating reports, by generating Impression sections.

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CSM Magazine

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

Cirrus, the UK’s premier provider of contact centre solutions, has announced an exciting new partnership with NICE. The addition of NICE’s AI-powered platform to Cirrus’s portfolio marks a transformative moment for small-to-medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in the UK, elevating customer engagement, streamlining operations, and driving business growth through cutting-edge technology, By adding NICE CXone Mpower into its comprehensive portfolio, Cirrus is enhancing its ability to deliver bespoke, AI

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Modern go-to-market teams know it takes more than one email to break through the noise. Multiple touchpoints means more ways to get your pitch right — and, potentially, more ways to be wrong. The good news? Once you know how to write compelling, one-off emails to entice prospective customers, you can easily do the same across a short sequence of emails.

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Concentrix

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

See how a financial services provider optimized customer engagement and boosted efficiency with AWS and iX Hello for seamless, round-the-clock operations.

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CSM Magazine

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

Marketplaces have transformed the shopping and selling landscape for consumers worldwide. The platform in question is recognized for its focus on fashion and lifestyle items. It includes a functionality known as Poshmark Offers. This particular tool has the potential to greatly augment sales figures if employed strategically. This article delves into ways in which sellers can make optimal use of this feature to elevate their business endeavors.

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Totango

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

Key takeaways : It’s time to take action. Big or small, it’s time to put AI-enabled actions into workflows and empower individuals to learn with these new tools. Measure outcomes from AI-driven enhancements. To gain traction, leaders must translate how improvements or efficiencies gained from implementing AI solutions result in either more revenue in the door or less costs out the door.

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AWS Machine Learning

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

This post serves as a step-by-step guide on how to set up lifecycle configurations for your Amazon SageMaker Studio domains. With lifecycle configurations, system administrators can apply automated controls to their SageMaker Studio domains and their users. We cover core concepts of SageMaker Studio and provide code examples of how to apply lifecycle configuration to your SageMaker Studio domain to automate behaviors such as preinstallation of libraries and automated shutdown of idle kernels.

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Cisco - Contact Center

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

Each year, it is our honor to celebrate our shared achievements with our ecosystem of Cisco Learning Partners. Our Learning Partners are at the forefront of upskilling individuals and teams, closing the IT skills gap, and driving business outcomes through top-tier training programs.

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AWS Machine Learning

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

The use of large language models (LLMs) and generative AI has exploded over the last year. With the release of powerful publicly available foundation models, tools for training, fine tuning and hosting your own LLM have also become democratized. Using vLLM on AWS Trainium and Inferentia makes it possible to host LLMs for high performance inference and scalability.

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Joe Rawlinson

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

Employee recognition is an essential component of fostering a productive and motivated workforce. As highlighted by Forbes , recognition is pivotal to employee engagement, with its significance expected to grow in 2025. By celebrating achievements, recognising efforts, and rewarding contributions, businesses can enhance employee morale, boost retention rates, and improve overall performance.

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