Intelligent software agents will turn online commerce into a boom and bust economy, according to research from IBM. Watson Research Centre, said that intelligent agents were programmed by consumers to search for products on the Internet by price...
And then there's the computer supplier whose finance staff did not have access to the same data as its call centre agents. In this day and age, that isn't good enough. We need another three-letter acronym like we need a hole in the head.
UK bank the Prudential has taken a stake in intelligent agent technology firm Lost Wax in a move aimed at changing the way it does business. The Prudential, as part of a consortium including Californian design company IDEO and existing private...
Its capability to transform our business, public services and societies is immense. Blair concluded: "[ICT] is the transforming technology of our age. The report - which takes into consideration over 100 indicators when examining the 'e-economic...
Banks haven't used the internet to transform their economic model; they've only seen it as a way to cut costs. They put that down to ease of access, pricing frameworks and even the quality of the advice and knowledge of the customer's financial...
The tool uses a linguistic engine which analyses the meaning of words and the construction of phrases and sentences to work out exactly what a user is hunting for. Researchers have developed an intelligent text-mining tool which is tuned to the way...