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Hexaware Recognized as a Leader for its Salesforce Expertise in the ISG Provider Lens Salesforce Ecosystem Partners US 2023 Quadrant Report

Hexaware, a leading global provider of IT services and solutions, has been named a leader in the ISG Provider Lens Salesforce Ecosystem Partners US 2023 Quadrant Report for Implementation Services for Core Clouds Midmarket and Managed Application Services for Midmarket.

Information Services Group (ISG) is a global technology research and advisory firm that provides market intelligence, advisory services, and technology insights to help clients achieve operational excellence and faster growth.

Salesforce’s growth and shift toward industry clouds have increased the demand for implementation services and enabled seamless customer experiences for global organizations. The report provides business and IT decision-makers with insights into service providers’ strengths and weaknesses, along with a distinct positioning of providers by segment, based on their competitive advantages and portfolio appeal.

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With its robust Salesforce expertise and capabilities, Hexaware has emerged as a leader for its comprehensive product and service offerings, strong market presence, innovative strength, and established competitive position.

For Implementation Services for Core Clouds Midmarket, the study observes that Hexaware has strong Salesforce implementation capabilities covering all transformation phases.

The study also points out that, in relation to Managed Application Services for Midmarket, Hexaware provides highly efficient and reliable application services for Salesforce.

Expressing delight at this recognition, Rupesh Mithani, SVP and Global Salesforce Practice Head, Hexaware Technologies said, “Our inclusion in the report highlights our commitment to helping businesses achieve operational excellence and faster growth through digital transformation. Our innovative and agile approach, combined with our comprehensive product and service offerings, positions us to meet the needs of our clients and capitalize on the growth opportunities in the market. With Salesforce’s impressive expansion and industry cloud offerings, we are excited to continue growing alongside this dynamic and evolving ecosystem.”

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Phylum Adds Open Policy Agent (OPA) and Continuous Reporting to its Powerful Software Supply Chain Security Policy Engine

Organizations can leverage default policy or define custom policy, and seamlessly enforce it directly from developer workstations and CI/CD pipelines

Phylum, The Software Supply Chain Security Company, announced it has added OPA and continuous reporting to its policy engine. Customers now have more flexibility when creating and enforcing custom policies, and can show compliance with key software supply chain frameworks, regulations and guidelines.

“We built Phylum’s policy engine as a security-as-code mechanism to give security and risk teams more visibility into the development lifecycle and allow them to enforce security policy without disruption. Phylum is the only platform that allows organizations to automatically enforce software supply chain security and compliance policy directly in developers’ native work environments to block attacks and ensure only trusted code is used,” said Pete Morgan, co-founder and CSO at Phylum.

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Phylum’s policy engine sits directly between the open-source ecosystem and the tools developers use to build source code

Phylum’s policy engine sits directly between the open-source ecosystem and the tools developers use to build source code, in line with the package selection process. It protects directly from an endpoint or plugs directly into a CI/CD pipelines so developers experience seamless, always-on protection and policy enforcement. Additionally, the Phylum Birdcage execution sandbox applies a zero-trust security model to the package installation process, providing defense-in-depth in the event that a software supply chain attack is perpetrated at runtime. This combination allows developers to work in their preferred environments and provides assurance for security teams that only secure and compliant code is being used.

The Phylum platform comes equipped with a default policy that detects risks across five domains – software vulnerabilities, license misuse, OSS malware, author risk and reputation and engineering risk – and blocks attacks. The default policy also allows organizations to comply with software supply chain security regulations in NIST, ISO and more. Leveraging OPA, users with more specific requirements can easily write custom policies as needs evolve. Policy enforcement significantly limits risk and reduces remediation efforts, while continuous reporting allows organizations to keep more thorough records and document security posture on an ongoing basis.

The Phylum Platform is built to provide broad defense immediately upon deployment and scale with organizations as appsec programs mature to address the rapidly evolving software supply chain attack surface. Customers use Phylum to automate vulnerability reachability, detect risks and block attacks, defend developers, define and enforce software supply chain policy and operationalize software bill of materials (SBOMs).

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Conversica Launches Industry’s First Generative AI Performance Benchmark Report

Generative AI-Powered Conversations Average 20x Higher Customer Engagement and Conversion Rates than Industry Norms, with Business Services, Retail, and Banking Seeing the Best Performance

Conversica, Inc., the leading provider of AI-powered conversation automation solutions for enterprise revenue teams, released the Conversica Conversation Index, the industry’s first benchmark report examining the performance of AI-generated conversations for business use. The Conversation Index investigates how leading brands and organizations benefit from Generative AI solutions and provides detailed insights and trends for customer responsiveness to this technology.

The Conversica Conversation Index Report delves deeply into the performance of the GPT wave, measuring the results of generative AI-powered conversations applied to revenue-focused outcomes across industries, geographies, and specific use cases in Marketing, Sales and Customer Success (CS) environments. It is the most comprehensive report of its kind ever released and is based on over 10 years of data captured in AI interactions.

The data show Generative AI-empowered digital assistants deliver an average Conversation Rate – percentage of leads messaged who reply to the digital assistant and engage in 2-way communication—of 25%; and a Conversation Qualified Rate – percentage of leads messaged who not only engage but convert down the next funnel milestone, like a meeting with Sales—of 12%.

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Conversica’s Conversation Rate and Conversation Qualified Rate benchmarks are an order of magnitude higher than industry norms for engagement and conversion, with mass email click-through rate benchmarks hovering between 1-2% and the average conversion rate for net-new lead-to-Sales Qualified Lead sitting well under 0.5%. This puts Generative AI’s ability to engage and convert at a rate over 20x higher than industry norms.

The Index breaks down performance by use case, geographic region, and industry; providing a never-seen-before impact of AI automation on revenue activities. Sales was the use case with the highest Conversation Qualified Rate (13%); both Customer Success and Marketing had 9%.

When analyzing regions, North America and Latin America had a Conversation Qualified Rate of 11%. The Asia-Pacific region had the best conversion rates, with a Conversation Qualified Rate of 29%, and Europe, Middle East, and North Africa is in the last position with roughly 5%.

“It’s no longer anecdotal. We have quantified over 2,000 customers with over 1B interactions. We keep a rolling 12-month view of our network and use this to inform our customers of key benchmarks. As mass audiences have become increasingly familiar with the powerful capabilities of AI, businesses that focus on providing immediate, personalized, digital experiences with the help of artificial intelligence will lead the way with sales-ready engagement that dramatically improves conversion rates,” said Jim Kaskade, CEO of Conversica. “ChatGPT has taken the world by surprise. Our deployment of GPT as part of a decade of work proves that generative AI is more than a toy, more than simply a content producer, but can actually be applied to increasing revenue, directly. And our data proves the power of Generative AI to engage and convert buyers far outstrips the industry status quo. If you are still trying to scale human activities without AI, you will become irrelevant.”

Industry Performance for Marketing, Sales, and Customer Success

The report shows the Financial Services industry is the top beneficiary of Conversation Qualified rates in Marketing (35.96%) and Customer Success (28.95%) use cases. Features such as convenience, speed, personalization, security, and cost savings offered by AI-powered digital assistants are the main reasons for this trend.

In Sales, the Retail vertical leads the way, with over one-third (33%) of messaged leads showing interest in products or services, followed by Business Services (32.1%), and Education (14.5%). The most successful Sales-based digital assistant among Conversica’s clients is in the Automotive industry, with a Conversation Qualified Rate of 36% — three times above the average of 12%.

“The Conversica Conversation Index Report demonstrates the value that conversational Generative AI solutions bring to industries, geographies, and various revenue teams across the board to improve lead conversion rates and customer satisfaction, and ultimately drive business growth and success. If you want to grow your revenue during the economic downturn, then you need to embrace AI automation NOW,” added Kaskade.

The Conversation Index report is published monthly and is drawn from customer interaction data from Conversica’s user base over the last 12 trailing months using a fixed representative sample of their library of 1000 use cases.

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Intellicheck Achieves ISO/IEC 27001:2013 and ISO/IEC 27001:2019 Certification

Intellicheck, Inc., an industry-leading identity company delivering on-demand digital and physical identification validation solutions, announced it has been awarded ISO/IEC 27001:2013 and ISO/IEC 27701:2019 certification.

Intellicheck CEO Bryan Lewis said the certifications reflect the company’s ongoing commitment to delivering the highest quality products. “Meeting our customers’ needs with cutting-edge technology solutions that reflect the highest standards of information security and privacy has always been our priority. These certifications attest to the rigorous criteria we have in place for our systems and controls reinforcing for our current clients, prospects, and business partners that we are a world-class company committed to excellence.”

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“These certifications reinforce for our current clients, prospects, and business partners that we are a world-class company committed to excellence.”

Intellicheck’s demonstrated in-place technical controls and formalized IT Security and Privacy policies and procedures earned the certifications. Compliance with these internationally recognized standards confirms that Intellicheck’s security management program is comprehensive and follows leading practices.

Intellicheck provides both digital and physical identity verification solutions for fintechs and financial services companies including many of the top twelve banks and credit card issuers using Intellicheck’s flexible technology solutions through point-of-sale scanners at brick-and-mortar locations as well as online through a browser or mobile devices. The company’s frictionless solutions are also in use at BNPL providers, more than 30,000 retail locations, and multiple law enforcement and state agencies.

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ChurnZero Announces Second Annual CSM Appreciation Week

Customer Success managers across the industry are invited to showcase their business skillsets, win cash prizes, and earn recognition in the CSM Awards this May.

ChurnZero, the platform and partner for Customer Success, has announced the second annual CSM Appreciation Week to recognize the dedication and skills of Customer Success managers (CSMs) at SaaS and subscription businesses everywhere. Held from May 8-12, this week of appreciation includes the industry-wide CSM Awards, which offer every CSM the opportunity to earn prizes and recognition for their work and creativity.

“This year more than ever, Customer Success managers deserve extra appreciation for their tenacity and resourcefulness in keeping customers, driving value, and growing revenue,” says You Mon Tsang, CEO and co-founder, ChurnZero. “They’re not just their customers’ coaches, consultants, and advisors; they’re also the engine driving the SaaS industry through the turbulence of 2023. Let’s celebrate their work, their impact, and their dedication in CSM Appreciation Week this May.”

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From April 18 to May 1, CSMs are invited to submit examples of their work and ingenuity across five CSM Awards categories, each showcasing an essential tactical aspect or skill of Customer Success. On May 8, three finalists in each category will be named in a webinar hosted by a panel of Customer Success leaders and experts, followed by four days of public voting to decide the winners. Voters can vote multiple times: once in the webinar, and once per day from May 8 to May 11 on the CSM Appreciation Week website. The five winners, who will earn cash prizes of $500 each, will be revealed on Friday, May 12.

2023’s CSM Award categories are:

Best renewal communication: Demonstrate the writing skills that helped you get a renewal deal across the finish line. Presented by ChurnZero.

Best reengagement strategy: Share your proven ideas for getting a hard-to-reach customer re-engaged and back on track. Presented by Northpass.

Best digital-first strategy: Detail your most successful technology-focused tactics for working more efficiently and scaling impact. Presented by The Success League.

Best use of video: Show how you use video to build a more engaging, impactful connection with your customers. Presented by ESG.

Best save story: Share the tactics you used to turn an at-risk account around, and how the results impacted your organization. Presented by SuccessCOACHING.

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Last year’s CSM Awards saw nearly 10,000 public votes from a field of 18 finalists, picked from 400 submissions for their skills and dedication to the evolving field of Customer Success.

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Highspot Launches Highspot University to Empower Customers to Drive Enablement Impact

New training solution helps customers build platform expertise, learn best practices, and run enablement programs with rigor

Highspot, the sales enablement platform that increases sales productivity, announced the launch of Highspot University, a centralized learning space where customers can learn at their own pace. Highspot University enables customers to unlock the power of Highspot, offering courses, certifications, and workshops to sharpen skills and drive more enablement impact within their organizations. Powered by Highspot’s natively-built training and coaching capabilities, Highspot University frictionlessly allows customers to deepen expertise, drive platform adoption and usage, and maximize return on their investment.

According to Gartner®, “Sales enablement budgets will increase on average 50% over current levels by 2027” (Gartner Expects Sales Enablement Budgets to Increase by 50% by 2027, February 15, 2023)*. Enablement teams will have critical choices to make when deciding where to invest to make the biggest business impact. Highspot University is designed to provide customers with the education and support they need to implement Strategic Enablement.

“Enablement done well has the potential to help your sales team win not just the next six deals, but the next sixty,” said Kelly Lewis, VP Revenue Enablement, Highspot. “But too often companies squander their budget on a patchwork of enablement activities that don’t scale the skills and processes needed to increase sales productivity. With Highspot University, our customers now have an amazing resource at their fingertips to master both the discipline and the technology – empowering them to drive the kind of outcomes that earn enablement a seat at the table.”

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Highspot University’s self-service curriculum is built on Highspot’s robust Training and Coaching product, providing in-app, just-in-time learning that lives in the places customers are already working. Customers can leverage training and coaching features including role-specific learning paths, certifications, quizzes, knowledge checks, video practice, and custom rubrics. Current courses cover topics ranging from sales play strategies to content governance best practices. Additionally, customers can earn a Highspot certification and badges, bolstering their sales enablement expertise as they look to develop their careers.

By applying learnings from Highspot University, enablement teams can help equip, train, and coach their salespeople to close deals with confidence. They can also share what they’ve learned, as well as continue to expand their knowledge, by connecting with learners at other companies in the Highspot Spark Community.

“Highspot makes it easy to train new solution owners efficiently, which is key as our company grows,” said Abi Roucka, Learning & Development Operations Manager, Braze. “Because Highspot University is built using Highspot technology, like SmartPages, the layout is incredibly easy to follow and translates seamlessly into the flow of work.”

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Clickatell Announces World’s First Chat Commerce Platform as a Service (CCPaaS)

Brands utilizing CCPaaS can provide rich commerce experiences for consumers in any mobile messaging channel

Clickatell, a pioneer in mobile messaging and Chat Commerce innovation, today announced the launch of the world’s first Chat Commerce Platform as a Service (CCPaaS) that empowers brands to capitalize on the opportunity of chat commerce, the emerging next wave of digital commerce. This ground-breaking platform enables businesses to seamlessly connect, interact and transact with their customers on the messaging platforms they already use. Clickatell’s April 2023 release of the first Chat Commerce Platform as a Service delivers full, authenticated commerce experiences within the most widely adopted mobile messaging environments, such as WhatsApp, Apple Messages, SMS and USSD.

This next evolution of Clickatell’s Chat Commerce Platform allows businesses to create chat commerce experiences that drive sales and increase customer satisfaction. Businesses stay ahead of the conversational commerce trend by conducting commerce in the world’s largest messaging apps. Clickatell’s CCPaaS also allows businesses to save time and reduce costs by providing relevant, in-context brand experiences and secure payment capabilities to their customers through the convenience of messaging. New platform features include card tokenization and integration with WhatsApp Commerce functionalities that allow the display of product information and images in the brand’s WhatsApp channel.

New Innovative Payments in Chat
CCPaaS is the first SaaS solution to provide secure payment processing by integrating with leading payment gateways, allowing businesses to efficiently process transactions within the chat interface. With card tokenization, consumers can securely pay via a link in any messaging channel, leading to a Clickatell-hosted checkout that tokenizes the user’s payment information and saves it for future use — making subsequent purchases streamlined for the consumer with ‘one tap pay.’ The platform is PCI-DSS, ISO27001 and SOC2 compliant, ensuring the highest security standards for data protection and privacy.

“The launch of Clickatell’s Chat Commerce Platform as a Service marks a significant milestone in our company’s mission to revolutionize customer engagement and facilitate frictionless commerce within messaging apps,” said Pieter de Villiers, CEO and Co-Founder at Clickatell. “We run our lives within messaging apps; whether arranging a lunch with a friend or scheduling a school drop-off, messaging is convenient and simple.

‘Our new platform enables our favorite brands to serve us in these same messaging platforms with a full commerce experience, such as checking into your next flight and paying for a seat upgrade. As the first of its kind, CCPaaS sets a new standard for the future of chat commerce and reinforces Clickatell’s pioneering position in the industry. We made history in 2000 when we became the first company to connect the world’s fastest growing commerce platform – the internet – with the world’s fastest growing communications platform – the mobile phone – via our SMS Gateway. I am proud to see our team continuing the innovation and executing on the vision.”

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Simple CCPaaS Packaging for Customers’ Needs
Clickatell’s CCPaaS is offered through three distinct packages:

  • Clickatell Connect  The Communication Package
    Connect is the foundation package that enables businesses to send and receive enterprise-grade mobile messages over multiple messaging channels via a RESTful API or a web-based campaign management tool. This package delivers high-volume services and campaigns, adhering to strict security and compliance requirements, delivering billions of messages reliably to customers all over the world. Key features include high volume queuing and routing, message encryption, anonymous messaging and number management.

  • Clickatell Interact  The Engagement Package
    Adding to Connect, the Interact package enables businesses to have meaningful conversations with their consumers delivering the kind of digital experiences that today’s mobile-first consumers have come to expect. Brands can now easily and quickly build messaging workflows to deploy chatbots and mini-apps from a low/no-code web interface. Interact allows an instantaneous response to the customer through a chatbot with powerful features including keyword management, assets library and integrations with leading CRM and OMS solutions. Interact also includes live agent enablement through an advanced web-based application that provides real time sentiment insights, agent assist, chat transfers and agent performance metrics, all designed to improve agent performance and drive better customer experience.

  • Clickatell Transact  The Commerce Package
    Transact enables businesses to sell products and services directly within messaging channels by sending the customer a payment prompt that initiates a secure and simple payment experience. Transact builds on the foundation of Connect and Interact, allowing businesses to create full commerce experiences within messaging. Businesses can accept payments on the Clickatell Platform with no development required, and with secure link and OMS integration, businesses can provide unparalleled check out experiences that are fully cloud native and turnkey. State-of-the-art payment capabilities include tokenization for frictionless user experience, PCI-DSS security and GDPR and local privacy compliance and legacy processes integration.

“As commerce continues to evolve yet again, we are helping brands to engage with their customers in this emerging chat commerce space,” said Jeppe Dorff, Chief Product and Technology Officer at Clickatell. “Our vision has always been to create a chat commerce platform that is focused and built around the key performance metrics that matter most to our customers, performance and operational efficiencies, customer satisfaction and increased business improvements. Our Chat Commerce Platform as a Service not only achieves that vision, it also provides an unparalleled user experience for both brands and their consumers, while fostering digital transformation and in context communications with the click of a button. With our innovative low/no-code platform, businesses may rapidly implement and customize their chat commerce solutions, regardless of technical expertise.”

To address this emerging chat commerce opportunity, Clickatell’s CCPaaS includes several powerful features designed to transform customer engagement into delightful commerce experiences and drive brand loyalty:

Customizable chatbots: Capabilities to develop and deploy chatbots to automate conversations, handle customer inquiries and drive sales.

Live agent chat: Smooth escalation from chatbots to live agents, enabling brands to offer personalized and efficient customer support when needed. Live agents can access conversation history and customer information for a seamless transition and enhanced customer experience.

Real-time analytics and reporting: Access to valuable insights into customer behavior, chatbot performance and transaction data, enabling data-driven decisions and optimization of chat commerce strategies.

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Easy integration with existing systems: A point and click embedded solution for seamless integration with CRM, ERP and other business systems. The platform comes pre-integrated with popular solutions like Shopify, Zendesk and Salesforce, ensuring a faster time to market for businesses.

Embedded payments: Embedding payments into chat allows brands to engage in transactional commerce as easy as a reply to pay. The feature comes with a secure link, hosted order pages, check out with Order Management integrations and a rich user experience in available channels.

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Rallyware Announces AI Chat Agent Set to Transform Direct Selling Operations

Rallyware’s AI-enabled Chat Agent is anticipated to change both how direct selling companies operate and what distributors expect from these companies, giving way to a fully transformed distributor experience. With this easy-to-use “personal assistant” in hand, the field is excited to face the future.

In a notable expansion of their smart technologies, Rallyware, the Performance Enablement Platform for large distributed sales forces, proudly announces the introduction of generative artificial intelligence (AI) to their technology.

This breakthrough in field Performance Enablement technology makes it possible, even easy, for each distributor to become a selling powerhouse from day one. Rallyware’s Chat Agent, like a personal assistant, is always available to support the distributor, taking the guesswork away from the process of independent business building while bringing direct selling firmly into the AI age.

Ultimately, the introduction of this distributor-facing AI-enabled Chat Agent is anticipated to change both how direct selling companies operate and what distributors expect from these companies, giving way to a fully transformed distributor experience fit for the future.

AI-Enabled Chat Agent
Overall, Rallyware’s semantic search-enabled Chat Agent speaks with uplines and downlines alike to help them become more effective and proactive, to make more sales and grow their business in a hyper efficient way.

In building the Chat Agent, Rallyware used the fourth generation of the GPT (Generative Pre-Trained Transformer) LLM (Large Language Modeling) AI model. The result is the preeminent AI-enabled tool for direct selling, being built not only on intelligent technologies but also decades of performance data, making the Chat Agent highly knowledgeable about this unique and fast-moving vertical.

Over digital chat, distributors can engage in conversations with the Chat Agent about topics like product specifics, sales pitches, customer experiences, and more. The Chat Agent’s semantic capabilities, along with years of performance enablement data, help it determine the context of the query to reply with the relevant content nearly instantly, with speed, accuracy, and efficiency unmatched by a live representative.

This Chat Agent provides textual answers based on natural language processing. Yet its capabilities go far beyond this.

Rallyware harnesses the context and substance of the distributors’ ad hoc requests to automatically project the most powerful, personalized, and suitable growth path for each specific user. As such, the Chat Agent will suggest smart activities informed by live performance data, personal goals, and the company’s previously modeled top seller behaviors; context-based sales strategies; and business-building tactics particular to each distributor’s path, calibrated to connect with them and drive performance.

In this manner, the Chat Agent not only helps the distributor “know” what their next action should be, but presents the tool that will allow them to perform this action. In this way it is not just a “chatbot,” but a smart personal assistant, remembering the individual distributor’s ad hoc requests over time and evolving to suit their goals and needs with every use.

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How the Chat Agent Works
When interacting with distributors, the Chat Agent will have gleaned the relevant contextual information from a large database of knowledge specific to the company.

Any company that rolls out the Chat Agent to its field will connect the agent with that company’s specific product, training, campaign, compliance, and other information, providing the Chat Agent a basis from which to conduct a dialogue with the distributors. At the same time, in conversations with distributors, the Chat Agent uses advanced semantic search capabilities to determine the context of the individual’s queries and concerns.

On this basis the Chat Agent provides “just-in-case” learnings, as described above–actions, strategies, aids, and more that apply to the particular case the distributor is facing right now. This intelligent framework builds on Rallyware’s already-existing “just-in-time” smart activities, which drive upskilling for distributors based on the actions they should take right now.

In terms of tone, the Chat Agent has been built to speak in a friendly, direct manner to lead the distributor toward their goal–with text-based replies, but also with visualized, interactive elements that guide the distributor intelligently to successful sales and business growth.

All at once, Rallyware’s Chat Agent cuts out tedious knowledge searching, impresses distributors with an easy user experience, and creates the most effective field possible, forever altering what distributors expect and deserve from direct selling companies, and evolving field operations going into the future.

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Rallyware CEO Comments
“With this AI expansion, Rallyware is proud to be redefining the next generation of technology for field Performance Enablement,” says George Elfond, Rallyware’s CEO and Co-Founder.

“Today, leading direct selling enterprises must acquire and implement the most advanced technology to empower their field and outdo their competitors in a crowded, complex gig-driven market—and be prepared to react at scale, swiftly, to any market changes,” he continues. “Being deeply rooted in direct selling, we at Rallyware care about the industry’s evolution, success, and continued competitiveness. With this and future innovations, we are enabling direct selling organizations to digitally transform in a meaningful, lasting way.”

Rallyware is revolutionizing productivity for the direct selling field with AI that connects learning, engagement, and execution in one smart Performance Enablement Platform (“PEP”).

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TrueCommerce Launches New ERP Partner Program

TrueCommerce xChange offers ERP resellers the opportunity to grow their business and help customers achieve complete EDI-ERP integration

TrueCommerce, a leading global provider of supply chain and trading partner connectivity, integration and omnichannel solutions, announced today the launch of its new partner program, TrueCommerce xChange. This program offers ERP resellers more advantages in their affiliation with TrueCommerce’s electronic data interchange (EDI) solutions. Together, they can offer businesses seamless integration with top ERP systems and streamlined data transmission with business partners through EDI.

“EDI and ERP success go hand in hand,” said Jacques Vigneault, SVP, global channels, TrueCommerce. “EDI-to-ERP integration yields more than just efficient business processes—it also opens opportunities for new supply chain partnerships and makes businesses more competitive. To maximize those efficiencies, companies need EDI solutions that integrate tightly with their ERP, and can scale to support growth. This is where our collaboration with ERP resellers can help.”

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TrueCommerce’s EDI solutions and global supply chain network enable a level of integration and automation that results in “zero-touch orders” and seamless connectivity to marketplaces and trading partners for enhanced operational performance. As a reliable partner, TrueCommerce leverages its fully managed service model to handle project planning, implementation and day-to-day EDI operations for its customers. A staff of in-house experts provides flexible support and removes the burden of testing, maintenance and ongoing compliance.

“Partnering with TrueCommerce has provided our customers with the benefits of seamless EDI-ERP integration,” said Scott Jackson, president of Alta Vista Technology. “They have seen significant improvements in operational efficiency and accuracy since implementing TrueCommerce’s EDI solutions. With the launch of the TrueCommerce xChange partner program, we look forward to expanding our partnership and helping more businesses achieve EDI success.”

TrueCommerce xChange offers partners access to solution training, dedicated sales resources, co-marketing opportunities and other avenues to support the growth of their companies and clientele. Its focus on simplifying EDI implementation helps partners’ customers reduce supply chain complexities, improve performance and gain peace of mind. ERP partners can leverage TrueCommerce’s EDI solutions and integrations to deliver customers an accelerated return on their ERP investment.

“We are excited to announce the launch of TrueCommerce xChange,” underscored Vigneault. “We understand the challenges businesses face concerning EDI requirements and integrations, and our new partner program offers expanded resources that benefit both our partners and their customers, leading to mutually beneficial outcomes.”

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Valyant AI Advances Artificial Intelligence At Restaurants For Unmatched Performance

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Leveraging large language models — like Open AI’s ChatGPT — the conversational AI platform helps boost efficiencies and cut costs

Valyant AI, a leading provider of AI-powered customer service solutions, has announced the incorporation of language-learning models to enhance its industry-leading artificial intelligence technology for restaurants. This application is set to utilize the latest advancements in LLMs (similar to ChatGPT and Google’s LaMDA) for improving the comprehensiveness of its voice assistant system’s responses, speed and efficiency.

“From improved communication and a broader customer base to uniquely cost-effective customer support and competitive advantage, there are numerous reasons why we are pleased to incorporate LLM technology into our platform,” said Rob Carpenter, CEO of Valyant AI. “This technology allows us to better understand and respond to our customers’ needs, resulting in a more efficient and personalized customer service experience. We are constantly striving to provide the best possible customer service, and incorporating LLM technology is a significant step in consistently achieving that goal.”

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The LLM technology utilized by Valyant AI is a type of artificial intelligence that allows computers to understand natural language and context in a previously impossible way. This technology has been trained on vast amounts of language data, allowing the platform to provide users with more accurate responses in less time, positively impacting customer satisfaction, reducing wait times and delivering a more efficient user experience overall.

A key distinction of Valyant AI’s usage of LLM technology is that it ensures customer data security and privacy by not sharing that information with any third-party external entities. This level of protection is crucial in maintaining customer trust and building a positive reputation in the industry.

Valyant AI is committed to staying at the forefront of technological advancements in artificial intelligence, and the incorporation of LLM technology is just one example of the company’s ongoing dedication to innovation.

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