For a few years now, there have been rumblings that virtual assistants might actually start talking to one other. And in a pretty hilarious feat, people have figured out how to literally get Alexa, Siri and Google Assistant to chatter together in an endless loop. While this was entertaining, it’s the real-life partnership that Amazon and Microsoft have formed to have their virtual assistants truly talk to each other that is worth paying attention to.
Both companies are enabling Microsoft’s business and productivity-focused Cortana to engage with Amazon's consumer- and ecommerce-focused Alexa. A command of “Cortana, open Alexa” will enable Microsoft users to do things such as control smart devices in their homes, or access any of the other third-party skills available on Alexa such as making a payment on a credit card, ordering a pizza or even turning their Anova Precision Cooker up a few degrees.
https://www.entrepreneur.com/article/330337/
Brexit is getting closer and with negotiations still in progress, all of us digital marketers are out there watching and waiting with bated breath…
In times of uncertainty or turmoil, markets have the capability of evolving much faster than most digital marketers can adapt. This gap between how you see the market and the reality of what’s happening in the market will become a major hurdle in the coming years for many marketers. In fact, experts are even calling Brexit a wake up call for everyone in the digital marketing industry. So the question is, is your digital team ready to re-strategise when push comes to shove?
https://mopinion.com/post-brexit-britain-where-will-that-leave-digital-marketing/
Enterprises are inundated with information about IoT platforms’ features and capabilities. But to find a long-lived IoT platform that minimizes ongoing development costs, enterprises must focus on exceptional user experience (UX) for 5 types of IoT platform users.
Marketing and sales literature from IoT platform vendors is filled with information about IoT platform features. And no doubt, enterprises choosing to buy IoT platform services need to understand the actual capabilities of IoT platforms – preferably by testing a variety of IoT platforms – before making a purchase decision.
https://www.networkworld.com/article/3384738/identifying-exceptional-user-experience-ux-in-iot-platforms.html/
User Experience (UX) research is the process of discovering the behaviors, motivations and needs of your customers through observation, task analysis, and other types of user feedback.
According to this study, over the next five years the User Experience (UX) market will register a 18.0% CAGR in terms of revenue, the global market size will reach US$ 300 million by 2024, from US$ 130 million in 2019. In particular, this report presents the global revenue market share of key companies in User Experience (UX) business, shared in Chapter 3.
https://marketresearchupdates.com/2019/03/27/user-experience-ux-market-overview-key-futuristic-trends-opportunities-2024/
A huge challenge that faces app developers today is saturation of the market.
More teams are pushing more products and this crowds the various app stores. So, how do you make your app or game stand out?
The secret is: you do not need to spend millions on app marketing and user acquisition.
https://learn.g2crowd.com/how-to-get-more-app-users/
If you’re a business technology user, you may have noticed a recent trend in Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) products: Many of them are becoming integrated platforms to interact with other business needs.
For as long as there’s been business technology, buyers have been forced to take a “best of breed” approach, selecting a number of specialized products to address different needs. SaaS products have been no different. They have traditionally offered specific solutions for specific use cases. But today, you’re seeing these types of products expand their value by offering integrations, cooperative development, and new areas of application. The idea is to help the customer by consolidating multiple buying decisions and oversight of these business tools down to one choice: the SaaS platform.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/forbesbusinessdevelopmentcouncil/2019/03/29/is-2019-the-year-to-create-an-saas-platform/
Smartphones are getting bigger and better.
The mobile industry is one of the most innovative in the world, continually addressing user experience concerns and bringing fresh, new design and user interface ideas in the most industrious, ingenious, and well-funded ways.
https://learn.g2crowd.com/mobile-ux-design/
There’s always the small matter of identifying which fertile areas of work will yield the most gains. This article will explain which 20% of UX design most often delivers the largest ROI.
https://www.business2community.com/customer-experience/3-areas-to-optimize-your-ux-design-and-get-more-roi-02184560/
It might seem like a good idea to use email to resolve customer issues or to simply solve customer issues wherever they find you. It’s simple. It’s cost-saving. But you know what else it is? Messy and risky. Messy, because your communications with customers are all over the place. There’s not a single, unified platform to manage your customers. Risky, because you can easily overlook customers’ messages from email. While it may be unintentional, you are more likely to neglect your customer issues and lose them, which isn’t exactly good for business. Enter customer service software.
https://mopinion.com/best-customer-service-software/
Would you like to gather real time feedback from your online visitors as they set out to achieve their goals on your website? Perhaps you are doing this already but struggle to manage the data and pick out the important trends? If so, tune in to our upcoming webinar where we will be joined by special guest Marieke Verbossen from major travel organisation and winner of the Shopping Award’s Publieksprijs XL (for Vacations & Travel Tickets), TUI. She will share some interesting details of how TUI gathers and gets the most out of their online customer feedback data.
https://mopinion.com/webinar-how-tui-leverages-online-customer-feedback/
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