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Simply explained: What are enterprise chatbots?
Obviously most chatbots exist within a consumer context, say for customer service purposes; however for an enterprise chatbot the use for internal customers (i.e. your team) is top of mind. Put simply, an enterprise chatbot is a conversational interface with a business application. Employees can pose a complete question to their chatbot and it will recognize and fulfill the user’s intent. Even though they basically use most of the technology that regular chatbots use, they come with tweaks to create use cases tailored to a given organization and its employees. Examples of enterprise chatbot use cases include: Can my department…
Whatever happened to these mobile SaaS acronyms?
A couple of years ago a bunch of acronyms seem to have defined the conversation, among them combinations like MEAP, MADP or MBaaS. What ever happened to these? Let's find out...
How can I use a rest API?
So you found that your SaaS app has API documentation, and now you wonder what you can do with it? In this article we clear up what APIs are, and show you useful next steps to use them to your advantage.
Simply explained: Ambient Computing in the enterprise
Although first incepted in the 1990s, ambient intelligence has seen a recent resurgence in popularity thanks to a widespread adoption of IoT features in devices. In a nutshell, people speak of ambient computing when they mean devices around you work together to sense and respond to your presence or needs. It’s like a ‘digital mesh’ where each device is part of a seamless, underlying web of connections that allow free flow of data. Especially in the context of work, it’s a ‘behind the scenes’ feature that lets nearby devices proactively present information or suggest actions in anticipation of the user’s…
Easily explained: Differences between Push and Pull APIs
Most applications, be it Facebook or a business app, make at least some of their data available for other applications to consume. The type of API architecture a service provides has a big impact on how developers need to program their apps. The standard way: Pull API This is also called “Polling” and it’s basically the same as refreshing your inbox every 5 minutes to check for new mail. As a developer, if you want to find out whether an API has anything new for the user, you just need to call and ask. Generally you can poll the API…
Top 3 smart office assistant devices you need to know about (with screenshots)
Just like the Alexa in your kitchen, smart office devices exist to make your day-to-day job easier. Gartner predicts that 25% of workers will use digital assistants every day by 2021, and it’s no surprise why when you consider a digital assistant can recoup 36% of your time every day. A cornerstone of any smart office and the heart of your operations is the smart office assistant. Smart office assistant devices are consumer devices equipped with an enterprise OS or skills. They’re tailored for use in an office environments, and can act as a gateway to the rest of your…