MELVILLE, N.Y., November 18, 2019 – Effectively managing today's workforce is crucial for improving customer experience, operational efficiency, and compliance. Yet currently, rising expectations of both customers and employees have made forecasting and scheduling contact center agents and customer engagement resources exponentially more challenging. To give companies a simpler way to manage work across the enterprise, Verint Systems Inc. (Nasdaq: VRNT), The Customer Engagement Company, today announced the newest release of its market-leading Workforce Management (WFM) solution, which leverages artificial intelligence-infused automation and new mobile tools to streamline forecasting and scheduling and improve employee engagement, all easily accessible via the Verint Cloud. "The workforce represents up to 80 percent of overall contact center budgets so accurate and cost-effective scheduling is vital," says Verint's John Goodson, SVP and general manager, Products. "At the same time, today's employees demand easier flex scheduling options, so organizations must balance flexibility and cost to provide superior service. As a pioneer in WFM, we view this new release as one that can invigorate the market to meet the ever-changing demands of today's contact centers and throughout the enterprise."

If you're like most companies, you wish to better understand your customers and your brand image. You'd like to track the success of your marketing campaigns, and the topics of interest--or frustration--for your customers. Social media promises to be a rich source of this kind of information, and many companies are beginning to collect, aggregate, and analyze the information from platforms like Twitter. However, more and more social media conversations center around images and video; on one recent project, approximately 30% of all tweets collected included one or more images. These images contain relevant information that is not readily accessible without analysis.

Microsoft (NasdaqGS:MSFT), Baker Hughes Company (NYSE:BKR) and AI software provider C3.ai, have allied to bring enterprise artificial intelligence solutions to the energy industry on Microsoft Azure. According to the press release, the alliance "leverages the significant energy technology expertise of Baker Hughes, C3.ai's proven AI platform and applications, and the Microsoft Azure cloud computing platform" to "streamline the adoption of scalable AI solutions for the energy industry that help promote safety, reliability, and sustainability". "We are witnessing a massive market shift as oil and gas businesses undergo enterprise-level digital transformation to improve efficiencies and increase safety, while simultaneously reducing environmental impact. With Microsoft's global reach and horizontal cloud platform, Baker Hughes's technology domain expertise, and C3.ai's industrial AI capabilities, organizations can rapidly improve core business operations and better serve customers with AI-enabled products and services. This strategic alliance is a complete game-changer for the industry."

PathAI, a leading provider of AI-powered technology for advancing pathology research, announced that it has appointed translational medicine and digital pathology leader, Michael C. Montalto, PhD, as Chief Science Officer. Dr. Montalto joins PathAI from Bristol-Myers Squibb (BMS), where he was Vice President and Head of Translational Sciences, Translational Medicine. "We are incredibly fortunate and excited to welcome Mike onto our leadership team," said Andrew Beck, MD, PhD, co-founder and Chief Executive Officer of PathAI. "Mike brings tremendous experience developing digital pathology diagnostic products and driving cutting-edge translational research in a large biopharmaceutical setting. We are thrilled to be working with Mike at PathAI to use AI-powered pathology to support the development of new therapies and diagnostics for patients."

NASHVILLE, TN / ACCESSWIRE / November 19, 2019 / New Constructs, the leading provider of insights into the fundamentals and valuation of private and public businesses, today announced an update to its Oct. 15 announcement of Harvard Business School (HBS) and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Sloan School of Management's findings that markets inefficiently assess core earnings because too few investors read footnotes, which include a steadily increasing number of material unusual gains/losses. The professors used New Constructs' AI-powered Earnings Distortion Scorecard to reveal the first-ever empirical evidence that corporate managers are biased when reporting earnings and exploit footnotes to manipulate quarterly results. The New Constructs dataset solves a very big problem for investors: how to get an accurate measure of profits. In the past quarter, New Constructs' Earnings Distortion Scorecard accurately predicted earnings beats and misses for major publicly traded equities including AmerisourceBergen, Qualcomm, CVS, AbbVie, Dupont de Nemours, and Lam Research. New Constructs' founder and CEO David Trainer commented, "There's a new landscape for fundamental data and research. We now have proof that we can't just trust the numbers analysts or executives give us. Money managers and advisors have a fiduciary duty to provide advice based on the true earnings or put their clients at undue risk. On the bright side, we are seeing the democratization of access to higher-quality research based on this new technology. Individual investors can now get the same unvarnished data as large institutional investors."

BRG announced today that it has added 12 members from Vista Analytics, LLC, significantly expanding the firm's capabilities in artificial intelligence and machine learning. "The addition of Vista Analytics is an exciting development," said BRG Chairman and Principal Executive Officer David J. Teece. "They bring sophisticated and complementary tools to our market-leading data analytics expertise." The market for dispute technology is in a unique nexus where the type, volume and complexity of data relevant to disputes is both growing and evolving. There is a clear need for new tools to help make sense of this complex data and simultaneously reduce the time and cost associated with data analysis.

HackNotice today launched HackNotice Premium, a threat monitoring service with real-time insights into potential breaches and data leaks. The premium version can tag the specific personal identifier (email, credit card information, social media account, and so on) that was compromised. HackNotice Premium also taps machine learning to gives consumers personalized response recommendations. The subscription service costs $4.95 per month or $49.95 per year (if you sign up this year, you'll get 50% off the first six months). HackNotice first launched in July 2018 as a free service for Android, iOS, and the web.

Geographically, the global artificial intelligence in retail market is segmented into five major regions, namely, North America, Europe, Asia Pacific, Latin America, and the Middle East and Africa. The global AI in retail market is analyzed methodically with respect to major countries in each of the regions with the help of bottom-up approach to arrive at the most precise market estimation. At present, North America holds a dominating position in the global AI in retail market. The region has high technology adoption rate, presence of key players & start-ups, and high penetration of internet. Consequently, North America is expected to retain its dominance throughout the forecast period.

InfiniteIO, the world's fastest metadata platform to reduce application latency, today announced the new Application Accelerator, which delivers dramatic performance improvements for critical applications by processing file metadata independently from on-premises storage or cloud systems. The new platform provides organizations across industries the lowest possible latency for their mission-critical applications, such as AI/machine learning, HPC and genomics, while minimizing disruption to IT teams. This press release features multimedia. "Bandwidth and I/O challenges have been largely overcome, yet reducing latency remains a significant barrier to improving application performance," said Henry Baltazar, vice president of research at 451 Research. "Metadata requests are a large part of file system latency, making up the vast majority of requests to a storage system or cloud. InfiniteIO's approach to abstracting metadata from file data offers IT managers a nondisruptive way to immediately accelerate application performance."

Excel's power comes from its simplicity. At its core, Excel is three things: cells of data laid out in rows and columns, a powerful calculation engine, and a set of tools for working with the data. The result is an incredibly flexible app that hundreds of millions of people use daily in a wide variety of jobs and industries around the world. Today, we're pleased to announce four new artificial intelligence (AI) features that make Excel even more powerful: Ideas is an AI-powered insights service that helps people take advantage of the full power of Office. Proactively surfacing suggestions that are tailored to the task at hand, Ideas helps users create professional documents, presentations, and spreadsheets in less time.