AI is everywhere. Once the sole domain of researchers and institutions, this technology has emerged in a wide variety of areas, including network infrastructure, platforms, and services. With AI, software developers now have the means to build a variety of intelligent solutions. This report, A Developer’s Guide to Building AI Applications, Second Edition, lets you check out AI’s possibilities hands-on.
You’ll learn how to create a virtual assistant—a conversational AI application that can understand language, perceive vast amounts of information, and respond intelligently. Authors Elaine Chang and Darren Jefford will guide you through the many AI resources and capabilities now available to developers. Jump in and discover powerful and innovative ways to approach hard-to-solve problems.
You’ll explore:
- How artificial intelligence works in the cloud.
- Azure AI’s services, infrastructure, and tools for developing AI apps.
- Microsoft’s Bot Framework ecosystem and the lifecycle of conversational AI app development.
- How to use Bot Framework to deliver tailored conversational assistant experiences.
- Expert guidance for developing your conversational AI app.
- Channels and adapters that help conversational experiences reach end users.
- Analytics tools for conversational AI applications.
- How Azure AI encourages you to create responsible and trustworthy solutions.
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M&A For many manufacturers, years of M&A has led to fragmented systems, complex intercompany processes, and a lack of standardization across the close. Increased global competition, economic disruption, and evolving regulations lead to uncertainty, fluctuations in materials and transportation costs, and a workforce that must learn to work in a whole new way—whether on the shop floor or in the office.
This is challenging manufacturers to improve transparency and agility around financial and operational insights and performance. These changes are also putting renewed pressure on spreadsheet-driven manual accounting.
Finance and accounting leaders are moving to cloud-based, scalable solutions to automate transactional accounting processes and improve the overall visibility, transparency, and efficiency of their financial close. Leading companies are shaving days off period-end, refocusing their efforts on higher value tasks, and achieving 2.67X ROI.
BlackLine share what’s possible and where to focus, including:
- 5 Reasons manual accounting hurts financial and operational performance
- 4 Manufacturing accounting processes that are ripe for automation
- 3 Real-life examples of manufacturers driving efficiency and accuracy in their close
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Customers expect their interactions with the contact center to be fast, personalized, and effortless. It would help if agents had insight into past behaviors, trends, and unspoken needs. At the same time, siloed data and functions make it hard to get visibility into the customer journey.
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As you work to advance social good, measurement is an essential component. Learn how to build a framework to track, understand, and analyze your impact.
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Customers expect their interactions with the contact center to be fast, personalized, and effortless. It would help if agents had insight into past behaviors, trends, and unspoken needs. At the same time, siloed data and functions make it hard to get visibility into the customer journey.
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Collecting good, timely data with careful analysis to guide proper business decisions is critical to thriving in business today. With that in mind, we’ve collected a set of key performance indicators (KPIs) that every product company should be monitoring consistently.
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After the economic turmoil caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, developed economies faced inflation rates reminiscent of the early 1980s. With the United States and the United Kingdom embarking on an unprecedented cycle of interest rate hikes to counter inflation, investors were left wondering about the potential impact on equity markets. Specifically, the question was whether this rapid rise in interest rates would favor either Value or Growth equities and to what extent. In July 2021, we analyzed historical stock returns from the 1980s to 2021 in both regions to understand how equity performance was affected when interest rates surged aggressively.
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Keeping costs down is a priority for any business, but cutting corners isn’t the answer. To ensure profitable service at every stage of the market cycle, shippers need to set a strategic action plan and transportation budget that accounts for fluctuations in carrier rates, fuel prices, and accessorial fees.
This e-book provides practical steps businesses can take now to reduce costs without sacrificing performance, including:
- Benchmarking rates
- Avoiding extra shipment charges
- Improving payload utilization
- Building strong carrier relationships
Modernize and optimize to enable differentiation
To compete in an ever-changing marketplace, your organization needs to differentiate itself from the competition. And for many organizations, that differentiation is most easily achieved when data and applications are modernized, integrated and optimized within a modern cloud environment. In this e-book, we’ll explore how cloud modernization helps you move beyond the barriers of legacy IT and opens the door to innovation and differentiation in highly competitive markets.
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Cloud transformations are becoming more business value driven
In today’s world, to enable key business initiatives, cloud adoption plays a central and leading role in ensuring enterprise continuity. Enterprises are dependent on IT’s ability to deliver technology and solutions that provide differentiation in the market. The public cloud service market continues to grow as observed in previous years. This is mainly due to the acceleration of digital business transformation programs undertaken by enterprises to grow their businesses and improve customer experience (CX). Cloud migration and application modernization represent the leading enterprise initiatives. Data and analytics come third on the priority list, with cloud governance interest increasing in enterprises
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Your tech stack can make or break marketing revenue, but the only way to know which side of the fence you’re on is to ask the right questions to give you actionable insights on when and where to tweak.
Here’s our top seven questions to help you audit your tech stack.
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Your tech stack can make or break marketing revenue, but the only way to know which side of the fence you’re on is to ask the right questions to give you actionable insights on when and where to tweak.
Here’s our top seven questions to help you audit your tech stack.