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Email users

4.1 billion reasons why email isn’t going away

According to a Radicati report, key statistics show 2.5 billion active email users were exchanging a staggering 244 billion emails a day in 2015. The number of email users projected for 2021 is 4.1 billion. So much for the death of email at the hands of social media! What is going on?

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CRM Software

Does a Business Really Need CRM Software?

One of the most important aspects is the relationship between the business and customers. In the past, this may have been problematic. Fortunately, this is no longer the case thanks to customer relationship management software. Ultimately, to find the right type of CRM software, a business needs to ensure that the platform offers everything needed to create customer profiles with ease.

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Why Is Text Analytics So Important Regarding Business Performance?

The online world has changed the way people communicate. This is especially true regarding the relationships built between businesses and their customers. Text analytics allows businesses to obtain the meaningful information contained with communication and use it to their advantage.

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A review of the Threads® Intelligent Message Hub

In this cornerstone post we look at how Threads developed, what it does and our vision for the future. If you have ever wondered how your business could better analyse all the digital data that is typically locked in inboxes or call recordings then Threads might be the tool for you.

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Artificial Intelligence, Neural Networks and the King’s new clothes?

Artificial Intelligence is an important part of Threads. But what exactly is artificial intelligence? Some things that were considered intelligent 20 years ago and now just number crunching. In his article John Yardley discusses this and how a return to some ideas that had gone out of fashion may see some exciting new developments.

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Three Instant Benefits Of Email Transparency

Email transparency is not a new concept in the USA. For many years, federal email transparency policies have given the public the right to read emails and documents that have been sent and received by local government and public agencies. But why are email transparency policies important and how can adopting a similar approach in your business help?

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We’ve done it: Threads® now lets you search your scanned attachments AND phone calls – yes, phone calls.

Our aim for Threads Message Hub was always to be able to search any kind of digital message from anyone to anyone - not just emails but their attachments, texts (SMS), Skype calls, Tweets and most ambitiously, telephone conversations. Well, we've done it. We are pleased to report that have our first incarnations of Optical Character Recognition (OCR) and Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) in beta test.

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