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In his keynote at @ThingsExpo, Chris Matthieu, Director of IoT Engineering
at Citrix and co-founder and CTO of Octoblu, focused on building an IoT
platform and company. He provided a behind-the-scenes look at Octoblu's
platform, business, and pivots along the way (including the Citrix
acquisition of Octoblu).
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Speaker Bio:
Chris Matthieu is the co-founder and CTO of Octoblu, a revolutionary
real-time IoT platform recently acquired by Citrix. Octoblu connects things,
systems, people and clouds to a global mesh network allowing users to
automate and control design flows, processes and sensor data, and
analyze/react to real-time events and messages as well as big data trends and
anomalies.
Prior to co-founding Octoblu, Chris was the founder of Nodester, an
open-source Node.JS PaaS which was acquired by AppFog and the founder of
Teleku, ... (more)
Floyd “Money” Mayweather made headlines last weekend for making light
work of Mixed Martial Arts superstar Conor McGregor. But he also made tech
headlines recently by endorsing the Hubii Network, an initial coin offering
(ICO), on his Instagram and Twitter accounts.
This isn’t the first time Mayweather (who’s dubbed himself Floyd
“Crypto” Mayweather) has endorsed an ICO. In late July, he promoted the
ICO for the Stox project, which went on to raise more than $30 million in its
token sale. (BTW: There are subtle differences between an ICO, a token sale,
and a crowdsale, although the terms are often used interchangeably. Search
the terms to learn more.)
What Is an ICO?
An ICO is similar to an IPO (initial public offering) in that it offers a
certain amount of ownership in a company to the public. In an IPO, a share of
stock represents fractional ownership of a corpor... (more)
SYS-CON Events announced today that Pulzze Systems will exhibit at 21st
International Cloud Expo which will take place October 31 - November 2, 2017
at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA. For more
information, visit http://www.interactor.com.
Pulzze Systems, Inc. is a technology company headquartered in Silicon Valley
creating new ways to build smart solutions using any device and service.
"We build IoT infrastructure products - when you have to integrate different
devices, different systems and cloud you have to build an application to do
that but we eliminate the need to build an application. Our products can
integrate any device, any system, any cloud regardless of protocol,"
explained Peter Jung, Chief Product Officer at Pulzze Systems, in this
SYS-CON.tv interview at @ThingsExpo, held November 1-3, 2016, at the Santa
Clara Convention Center... (more)
@ThingsExpo has been named the Most Influential ‘Smart Cities - IIoT'
Account and @BigDataExpo has been named fourteenth by Right Relevance (RR),
which provides curated information and intelligence on approximately 50,000
topics.
In addition, Right Relevance provides an Insights offering that combines the
above Topics and Influencers information with real time conversations to
provide actionable intelligence with visualizations to enable decision
making. The Insights service is applicable to events like elections, emerging
technologies, issues/activism, conferences, product launches, etc. Right
Relevance's report is a summary of graph analysis of engagements and
conversations including retweets, mentions and replies of tweets related to
the subject of ‘Industrial IoT.'
The engagements or "flocking" in the context of a subject (topic, event etc.)
can lead to buil... (more)
Conversational Things - How Ambient Devices and Frictionless Engagement Are
Transforming Our Lives
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A strange thing is happening along the way to the Internet of Things, namely
far too many devices to work with and manage. It has become clear that we'll
need much higher efficiency user experiences that can allow us to more easily
and scalably work with the thousands of devices that will soon be in each of
our lives.
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Enter the conversational interface revolution, combining bots we can
literally talk with, gesture to, and even direct with our thoughts, with
embedded artificial intelligence, which can process our conversational
commands and orchestrate the outcomes we request across our personal and
professional realm of co... (more)
Roambi ES 4.5 JDBC Connector Gives Businesses Unprecedented Access to Data
from Multiple Databases, Crystalized in Captivating Visuals
San Diego, Calif - February 5, 2013 - Roambi, the stunning business app that
redesigns the way the world interacts with data, today announced the launch
of Roambi ES 4.5 JDBC Connector. The Roambi Connector enables businesses to
tap directly into any JDBC-powered database to capture critical data, right
from the source and transform it into engaging visuals that reveal key
business insights - anytime, anywhere.
With the launch of the JDBC Connector, Roambi is helping democratize the
power of big data for all businesses. Companies can now access and integrate
data from multiple database sources and garner meaningful information through
Roambi's stunning visual reports and graphs.
"Making information available, including big data, throu... (more)
The Mobility News Weekly is an online newsletter made up of the most
interesting news and articles related to enterprise mobility that I run
across each week. I am specifically targeting information that reflects
market data and trends.
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Apple could double the number of iPads it has sold to date in 2013 alone,
with close to 200 million iPhones sold in the same upcoming 12 month period,
according to Canaccord Genuity analyst Michael Walkley. Read Original
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Global mobile phone vendors shipped a total of 445.7 million units in the
third quarter of 2012, compared to 434.1 million units in the third quarter
of 2011, according to latest statistics from International Data Corporation.
Re... (more)
Internet of @ThingsExpo, taking place October 31 - November 2, 2017, at the
Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA, is co-located with 21st
Cloud Expo and will feature technical sessions from a rock star conference
faculty and the leading industry players in the world.
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The Internet of Things (IoT) is the most profound change in personal and
enterprise IT since the creation of the Worldwide Web more than 20 years ago.
All major researchers estimate there will be tens of billions devices -
computers, smartphones, tablets, and sensors - connected to the Internet by
2020. This number will continue to grow at a rapid pace for the next several
decades.
With major technology companies and startups seriously embracing IoT
strategies, now is the perfect time to attend @ThingsExpo in Silicon Valley.
Learn what is going on, contribute... (more)
Developing mobile apps has never been an easy task. Creating a mobile app for
iOS means owning strong programming skills about Objective-C or Swift and
knowing their APIs. Android-based apps are not so different: you have to know
Java and the Android Platform and its API.
The learning curve is not fast and it includes how to create nice and
interactive user interfaces, connecting embedded features like GPS, camera,
showing maps, images and so forth.
To make it more complex, it is pretty common to connect the app with a server
where central data is saved or fetched and where other services must be
connected, like a central database, documents repository or other information
systems.
Consequently, creating a mobile app requires a team of experts able to work
with a variety of different technologies, including mobile app development,
networking, server-side technolo... (more)
With major technology companies and startups seriously embracing Cloud
strategies, now is the perfect time to attend 21st Cloud Expo, October 31 -
November 2, 2017, at the Santa Clara Convention Center, CA, and June 12-14,
2018, at the Javits Center in New York City, NY, and learn what is going on,
contribute to the discussions, and ensure that your enterprise is on the
right path to Digital Transformation.
Track 1. Enterprise Cloud | Cloud-Native
Track 2. Big Data | Analytics
Track 3. Internet of Things | IIoT | Smart Cities
Track 4. DevOps | Digital Transformation (DX)
Track 5. APIs | Cloud Security | Mobility
Track 6. AI | ML | DL | Cognitive
Track 7. Containers | Microservices | Serverless
Track 8. FinTech | InsurTech | Token Economy
Cloud Expo | @ThingsExpo 2017 Silicon Valley
(October 31 - November 2, 2017, Santa Clara Convention Center, CA)
Cloud Expo | @ThingsExpo... (more)
How much does it cost to make an app is almost as popular a question as it is
confusing.
No one tries to learn the exact costs of, say, making a movie: people realize
that there's an overwhelming amount of variables involved on which they
depend.
But almost every day a new inquiry is posted on a tech forum, Quora, or
Reddit, as to how much it'd take to build a mobile business app.
Such calculation, in many ways, is even harder to make.
Is there a way to tackle the question properly?
First we want you to understand that any exact figures couldn't possibly be
given straight away, without the details, and that all the so-called online
app development cost calculators are, essentially, just marketing baits.
That said, there is still some info you can analyze to get a frame of
reference; to get a rough idea about a budget you can squeeze an app in.
Here's what you should ... (more)
@CloudExpo Stories By Liz McMillan  "Evatronix provides design services to companies that need to integrate the IoT technology in their products but they don't necessarily have the expertise, knowledge and design team to do so," explained Adam Morawiec, VP of Business Development at Evatronix, in this SYS-CON.tv interview at @ThingsExpo, held Oct 31 – Nov 2, 2017, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA. Dec. 28, 2017 04:15 PM EST Reads: 2,297 | By Pat Romanski  SYS-CON Events announced today that Conference Guru has been named “Media Sponsor” of the 22nd International Cloud Expo, which will take place on June 5-7, 2018, at the Javits Center in New York, NY.
A valuable conference experience generates new contacts, sales leads, potential strategic partners and potential investors; helps gather competitive intelligence and even provides inspiration for new products and services. Conference Guru works with conference organizers to pass great deals to gre... Dec. 28, 2017 03:30 PM EST Reads: 1,062 | By Pat Romanski  To get the most out of their data, successful companies are not focusing on queries and data lakes, they are actively integrating analytics into their operations with a data-first application development approach. Real-time adjustments to improve revenues, reduce costs, or mitigate risk rely on applications that minimize latency on a variety of data sources. In his session at @BigDataExpo, Jack Norris, Senior Vice President, Data and Applications at MapR Technologies, reviewed best practices to ... Dec. 28, 2017 02:00 PM EST Reads: 3,185 | By Liz McMillan  In his Opening Keynote at 21st Cloud Expo, John Considine, General Manager of IBM Cloud Infrastructure, led attendees through the exciting evolution of the cloud. He looked at this major disruption from the perspective of technology, business models, and what this means for enterprises of all sizes. John Considine is General Manager of Cloud Infrastructure Services at IBM. In that role he is responsible for leading IBM’s public cloud infrastructure including strategy, development, and offering m... Dec. 28, 2017 10:15 AM EST Reads: 2,338 | By Elizabeth White  The next XaaS is CICDaaS. Why? Because CICD saves developers a huge amount of time. CD is an especially great option for projects that require multiple and frequent contributions to be integrated. But… securing CICD best practices is an emerging, essential, yet little understood practice for DevOps teams and their Cloud Service Providers. The only way to get CICD to work in a highly secure environment takes collaboration, patience and persistence. Building CICD in the cloud requires rigorous ar... Dec. 28, 2017 09:30 AM EST Reads: 908 | By Elizabeth White  Companies are harnessing data in ways we once associated with science fiction. Analysts have access to a plethora of visualization and reporting tools, but considering the vast amount of data businesses collect and limitations of CPUs, end users are forced to design their structures and systems with limitations. Until now. As the cloud toolkit to analyze data has evolved, GPUs have stepped in to massively parallel SQL, visualization and machine learning. Dec. 28, 2017 08:15 AM EST Reads: 2,877 | By Liz McMillan  DevOps is under attack because developers don’t want to mess with infrastructure. They will happily own their code into production, but want to use platforms instead of raw automation. That’s changing the landscape that we understand as DevOps with both architecture concepts (CloudNative) and process redefinition (SRE).
Rob Hirschfeld’s recent work in Kubernetes operations has led to the conclusion that containers and related platforms have changed the way we should be thinking about DevOps and... Dec. 28, 2017 07:30 AM EST Reads: 969 | By Liz McMillan  "ZeroStack is a startup in Silicon Valley. We're solving a very interesting problem around bringing public cloud convenience with private cloud control for enterprises and mid-size companies," explained Kamesh Pemmaraju, VP of Product Management at ZeroStack, in this SYS-CON.tv interview at 21st Cloud Expo, held Oct 31 – Nov 2, 2017, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA. Dec. 23, 2017 05:00 PM EST Reads: 1,178 | By Elizabeth White  Large industrial manufacturing organizations are adopting the agile principles of cloud software companies.
The industrial manufacturing development process has not scaled over time. Now that design CAD teams are geographically distributed, centralizing their work is key. With large multi-gigabyte projects, outdated tools have stifled industrial team agility, time-to-market milestones, and impacted P&L; stakeholders. Dec. 23, 2017 10:00 AM EST Reads: 1,287 | By Elizabeth White  Enterprises are adopting Kubernetes to accelerate the development and the delivery of cloud-native applications. However, sharing a Kubernetes cluster between members of the same team can be challenging. And, sharing clusters across multiple teams is even harder.
Kubernetes offers several constructs to help implement segmentation and isolation. However, these primitives can be complex to understand and apply. As a result, it’s becoming common for enterprises to end up with several clusters. Thi... Dec. 21, 2017 12:00 PM EST Reads: 1,128 | By Pat Romanski  "Infoblox does DNS, DHCP and IP address management for not only enterprise networks but cloud networks as well. Customers are looking for a single platform that can extend not only in their private enterprise environment but private cloud, public cloud, tracking all the IP space and everything that is going on in that environment," explained Steve Salo, Principal Systems Engineer at Infoblox, in this SYS-CON.tv interview at 21st Cloud Expo, held Oct 31 – Nov 2, 2017, at the Santa Clara Conventio... Dec. 20, 2017 04:00 PM EST Reads: 1,361 | By Liz McMillan  In his session at 21st Cloud Expo, James Henry, Co-CEO/CTO of Calgary Scientific Inc., introduced you to the challenges, solutions and benefits of training AI systems to solve visual problems with an emphasis on improving AIs with continuous training in the field. He explored applications in several industries and discussed technologies that allow the deployment of advanced visualization solutions to the cloud. Dec. 20, 2017 12:00 PM EST Reads: 1,380 | By Pat Romanski  The question before companies today is not whether to become intelligent, it’s a question of how and how fast. The key is to adopt and deploy an intelligent application strategy while simultaneously preparing to scale that intelligence. In her session at 21st Cloud Expo, Sangeeta Chakraborty, Chief Customer Officer at Ayasdi, provided a tactical framework to become a truly intelligent enterprise, including how to identify the right applications for AI, how to build a Center of Excellence to oper... Dec. 19, 2017 04:15 PM EST Reads: 2,149 | By Elizabeth White  "IBM is really all in on blockchain. We take a look at sort of the history of blockchain ledger technologies. It started out with bitcoin, Ethereum, and IBM evaluated these particular blockchain technologies and found they were anonymous and permissionless and that many companies were looking for permissioned blockchain," stated René Bostic, Technical VP of the IBM Cloud Unit in North America, in this SYS-CON.tv interview at 21st Cloud Expo, held Oct 31 – Nov 2, 2017, at the Santa Clara Conventi... Dec. 18, 2017 03:45 PM EST Reads: 2,393 | By Elizabeth White  In his session at 21st Cloud Expo, Carl J. Levine, Senior Technical Evangelist for NS1, will objectively discuss how DNS is used to solve Digital Transformation challenges in large SaaS applications, CDNs, AdTech platforms, and other demanding use cases. Carl J. Levine is the Senior Technical Evangelist for NS1. A veteran of the Internet Infrastructure space, he has over a decade of experience with startups, networking protocols and Internet infrastructure, combined with the unique ability to it... Dec. 18, 2017 01:30 PM EST Reads: 2,411 | By Elizabeth White  22nd International Cloud Expo, taking place June 5-7, 2018, at the Javits Center in New York City, NY, and co-located with the 1st DXWorld Expo will feature technical sessions from a rock star conference faculty and the leading industry players in the world. Cloud computing is now being embraced by a majority of enterprises of all sizes. Yesterday's debate about public vs. private has transformed into the reality of hybrid cloud: a recent survey shows that 74% of enterprises have a hybrid cloud ... Dec. 18, 2017 01:00 PM EST Reads: 4,207 | By Liz McMillan  "Cloud Academy is an enterprise training platform for the cloud, specifically public clouds. We offer guided learning experiences on AWS, Azure, Google Cloud and all the surrounding methodologies and technologies that you need to know and your teams need to know in order to leverage the full benefits of the cloud," explained Alex Brower, VP of Marketing at Cloud Academy, in this SYS-CON.tv interview at 21st Cloud Expo, held Oct 31 – Nov 2, 2017, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clar... Dec. 17, 2017 04:00 PM EST Reads: 1,398 | By Pat Romanski  Gemini is Yahoo’s native and search advertising platform. To ensure the quality of a complex distributed system that spans multiple products and components and across various desktop websites and mobile app and web experiences – both Yahoo owned and operated and third-party syndication (supply), with complex interaction with more than a billion users and numerous advertisers globally (demand) – it becomes imperative to automate a set of end-to-end tests 24x7 to detect bugs and regression.
In th... Dec. 17, 2017 02:00 PM EST Reads: 1,476 | By Liz McMillan  Agile has finally jumped the technology shark, expanding outside the software world. Enterprises are now increasingly adopting Agile practices across their organizations in order to successfully navigate the disruptive waters that threaten to drown them. In our quest for establishing change as a core competency in our organizations, this business-centric notion of Agile is an essential component of Agile Digital Transformation.
In the years since the publication of the Agile Manifesto, the conn... Dec. 17, 2017 11:00 AM EST Reads: 1,365 | By Elizabeth White  "MobiDev is a software development company and we do complex, custom software development for everybody from entrepreneurs to large enterprises," explained Alan Winters, U.S. Head of Business Development at MobiDev, in this SYS-CON.tv interview at 21st Cloud Expo, held Oct 31 – Nov 2, 2017, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA. Dec. 17, 2017 10:00 AM EST Reads: 1,550 |
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The time of year when crystal balls get a viewing and many pundits put out their annual predictions for the coming year. Copying off since 2012, rather than thinking up my own, I figured I’d regurgitate what many others expect to happen.
Top 10 Cyber Security Predictions for 2018 – Infosec Institute kicks off this year’s Top 10, Top 10 list with a look back at their 2017 predictions (AI, IoT, etc.) and dives head first into 2018 noting that Ransomware will be the most dangerous threat to organizations worldwide; cryptocurrency will attract fraudsters looking to mine; cloud security will (ag...
Augmented reality (AR) and virtual reality (VR) have been the subject of much discourse in the last several years. They were widely anticipated in the gaming and entertainment industries, but in marketing and corporate settings, the benefits were murky at best. Today, these technologies are becoming more of a reality in all areas of business.
For example, the new IKEA® shopping app leverages augmented reality to help shoppers determine how certain popular items will look in their homes – no trip to a crowded megastore necessary. Marriott® deployed virtual reality for customers to see its hot...
This month, an AI (artificial intelligence) system passed a medical exam in China for the first time. I wonder how its bedside manner will be? In addition, Saudi Arabia granted citizenship to a robot named Sophia. With all these rapid advancements, I think it is time we explore the spiritual life of robots.
Up till recently, programmers coded and configured algorithms, AI, automation and machine learning system and took personal responsibility for all the code. Today, however, AI has escaped the confines of human oversight and has been empowered and employed to self-program, self-optimize, ...
A strong declaration from a historically antagonist foe should put chills in the hearts of Americans preparing themselves for the world ahead: Russian President Vladimir Putin says the nation that leads in AI will be the ruler of the world [1]” … The ruler of the world!
From the article (with some modification to avoid political landmines), we get the following:
“The development of artificial intelligence has increasingly become a national security concern in recent years. It is China and the US (not Russia), which are seen as the two frontrunners, with China recently announcing its ambi...
The Internet of Things will challenge the status quo of how IT and development organizations operate. Or will it? Certainly the fog layer of IoT requires special insights about data ontology, security and transactional integrity. But the developmental challenges are the same: People, Process and Platform. In his session at @ThingsExpo, Craig Sproule, CEO of Metavine, demonstrated how to move beyond today's coding paradigm and shared the must-have mindsets for removing complexity from the development process, accelerating application delivery times, and ensuring that developers will become hero...
As we end 2017, I’m tired of writing “lecturing” blogs about what organizations should be doing to master data monetization in order to power their business models and achieve digital transformation. While the objective of every organization should be to master big data and data science (artificial intelligence, machine learning, deep learning) to drive “data monetization,” let’s take a breath and have some fun.
My recent ankle surgery afforded me the opportunity to binge watch “Game of Thrones.” As I watched the impending battle between the White Walkers and humanity, I couldn’t help but ...
For better or worse, big data has irrevocably altered the digital landscape. The explosion in variety, velocity, volume and value of information presents an abundance of previously unimaginable opportunity. But it also creates a number of challenges that need to be successfully navigated.
This reshaped technical world poses the following question to organizations: do you risk presenting, stale, incorrect or erroneous data to your customers? Because, with 2.5 quintillion bytes of data now being created every day, finding a way to manage and harness such potential is a new experience for everyo...
Net Neutrality rules were originally enacted to ensure that all Americans would have equal access to a free and open Internet. We can argue about what Net Neutrality rules did and did not accomplish in a moment, but now I want to explore the most sensational of all the post–Net Neutrality fears: the death of the Internet.
If you’re still reading, you know that the FCC voted to repeal Net Neutrality rules (aka the Open Internet) and replace it with the “Restoring Internet Freedom” order. The outcry from the Open Internet camp has been loud, hyperbolic, hypothetical, and mostly based on the fun...
When shopping for a new data processing platform for IoT solutions, many development teams want to be able to test-drive options before making a choice. Yet when evaluating an IoT solution, it’s simply not feasible to do so at scale with physical devices. Building a sensor simulator is the next best choice; however, generating a realistic simulation at very high TPS with ease of configurability is a formidable challenge. When dealing with multiple application or transport protocols, you would be looking at some significant engineering investment.
On-demand, serverless computing enables deve...
“Why incur the expense of generating and collecting all of this IoT data if you’re not going to monetize it?”
Organizations are racing to embrace the Internet of Things (IoT) as the pundits create “visions of sugar-plums dancing in their heads.” McKinsey Global Institute released their study “The Internet of Things: Mapping the Value beyond the Hype” in June 2015 that highlighted the staggering financial value that IoT could create! (See Figure 1.)
Recently I read somewhere this statement – As we end 2017 and look ahead to 2018, topics that are top of mind for data professionals are the growing range of data management mandates, including the EU’s new General Data Protection Regulation that is directed at personal data and privacy, the growing role of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning in enterprise applications, the need for better security in light of the onslaught of hacking cases, and the ability to leverage the expanding Internet of Things.
There is a war a-brewin’, but this war will be fought with wits and not brute strength. Ever since Russian President Vladimir Putin’s declaration that “the nation that leads in AI (Artificial Intelligence) will be the ruler of the world,” the press and analysts have created hysteria regarding the ramifications of artificial intelligence on everything from public education to unemployment to healthcare to Skynet.
Note: artificial intelligence (AI) endows applications with the ability to automatically learn and adapt from experience via interacting with the surroundings / environment. See the b...
What's disruptive innovation, and why does it matter to leaders in the C-suite? It's how the savvy non-conformist will target market opportunities. How does this happen, when established companies seem to have the advantage? Creative software developers can quickly apply new technologies and digital business models to capture untapped demand.
So data warehousing may not be cool anymore, you say? It’s yesterday’s technology (or 1990’s technology if you’re as old as me) that served yesterday’s business needs. And while it’s true that recent big data and data science technologies, architectures and methodologies seems to have rendered data warehousing to the back burner, it is entirely false that there is not a critical role for the data warehouse and Business Intelligence in digitally transformed organizations.
Will I ever understand the nuances of the advanced analytics landscape? Well, maybe the better question is will the advanced analytics landscape ever stop changing? The advanced analytics landscape, into which I include Deep Learning (DL), Machine Learning (ML), Reinforcement Learning (RL) and Artificial Intelligence (AI), seems to be in a constant state of evolution. New advanced analytic algorithms and tool sets seem to be coming out of every university, every startup, every digital media company and every technology company. And many of these new advanced analytic algorithms and tool sets a...
Coca-Cola’s Google powered digital signage system lays the groundwork for a more valuable connection between Coke and its customers. Digital signs pair software with high-resolution displays so that a message can be changed instantly based on what the operator wants to communicate or sell. In their Day 3 Keynote at 21st Cloud Expo, Greg Chambers, Global Group Director, Digital Innovation, Coca-Cola, and Vidya Nagarajan, a Senior Product Manager at Google, discussed how from store operations and optimization to employee training and insights, all ultimately create the best customer experience b...
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