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Leading Voice AI Company Skit Named a Cool Vendor by Gartner

Dec 21, 2021 by Gouri Achary 0 Comments #Adrian Lee, #Anthony Mullen, #Cool Vendor, #Gartner, #Gartner Cool Vendor, #Magnus Revang, #Skit, #Sourabh Gupta, #Van Baker, #Voice AI Company

Leading voice AI Company, Skit, announced that it’s been named as Cool Vendor based on November 12, 2021, report titled, “Cool Vendors in Conversational and NLT Widen Use Cases, Domain Knowledge and Dialect Support” by Anthony Mullen, Magnus Revang, Van Baker, and Adrian Lee at Gartner Inc. According to Gartner, “This research does not constitute an exhaustive list of vendors in any given technology area, but rather is designed to highlight interesting, new and innovative vendors, products and services.” The report provides recommendations as follows.

“As an applications and software engineering leader looking to understand how emerging technologies drive the future of applications, you should:

  • Use transformer models to shorten machine training and learning cycles by creating synthetic training data, test data and also using them to generate personalized output at scale for marketing and service experiences.
  • Design your architecture so that speech providers are loosely coupled to the design process, so you may pick and choose local providers to obtain the best experience.
  • Ensure you have an understanding over what data assets persist should you change vendors by focusing on the co-development of industry-specific information with vendors and making it available to the business via semantic AI APIs.”

“We are delighted to be named as Cool Vendor in Gartner Cool Vendors in Conversational and NLT Widen Use Cases, Domain Knowledge and Dialect Support,” said Sourabh Gupta, CEO and Co-founder of Skit. “The demand for conversational AI is growing as organizations automate their customer contact centres. Gartner’s designation validates the uniqueness and superiority of our product and reaffirms our commitment to delivering a voice-first future that improves customer engagement and satisfaction”

Source:

Gartner, Cool Vendors in Conversational and NLT Widen Use Cases, Domain Knowledge and Dialect Support, Anthony Mullen et al., 12 Nov 2021

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Gartner does not endorse any vendor, product or service depicted in our research publications, and does not advise technology users to select only those vendors with the highest ratings. Gartner research publications consist of the opinions of Gartner’s research organization and should not be construed as statements of fact. Gartner disclaims all warranties, expressed or implied, with respect to this research, including any warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose.

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Cigniti positioned as a ‘Niche player’ in Gartner 2020 Magic Quadrant for Application Testing Services, Worldwide

Dec 15, 2020 by Rekha Nair 0 Comments #CEO, #Cigniti, #Cigniti Technologies, #Gartner, #Inc., #Srikanth Chakkilam

Mumbai: Cigniti Technologies, a global leader in independent quality engineering and software testing services, today announced that it has been as positioned as a ‘Niche Player’ in the December 2020 Gartner, Inc. Magic Quadrant for Application Testing Services, Worldwide. This is the 6th consecutive year Cigniti has been positioned in this Magic Quadrant.

Gartner is aware of about 300 providers offering application testing services globally, but these providers are not the complete marketplace. The Magic Quadrant assesses 20 of the service providers offering testing services including consulting services, implementation, integration and managed services, based on specified inclusion criteria.

According to Gartner, “The demand for intelligent and highly automated testing services is driven by the need for continuous quality excellence at a lower cost. This report guides sourcing, procurement and vendor management leaders in making better sourcing decisions when selecting application testing service providers.”

Many of the world’s largest and most innovative companies turn to Cigniti to get assistance on accelerating their digital transformation efforts and obtaining higher returns on their investments into Quality Engineering initiatives. Cigniti has a strong application testing expertise and uses its portfolio of testing IP, including its core testing platform, BlueSwan. Cigniti leverages its test automation accelerators, industry accelerators and testing labs within mobile, IoT, medical devices and robotics, as well as its COEs in enterprise application platforms (such as Oracle, SAP and Salesforce), RPA, cybersecurity, and specialized testing areas like performance, mobile and test data management for delivering customer-centric quality assurance services.

This year, Cigniti also received 5-star  reviews and has been rated by its enterprise customers a 4.8 out of 5 on Gartner Peer Insights for Application Testing Services, Worldwide based on 43 ratings in the last 12 months. Cigniti received the highest number of ratings across all providers in the application testing services category.

Speaking on the occasion, Srikanth Chakkilam, CEO, Cigniti, said “To us, getting consistently positioned in the Magic Quadrant and great feedback on Gartner Peer Insights stands testament to the faith large enterprise clients have placed on us in driving quality engineering initiatives for them. Our focus on delivering value through proprietary IP and client centricity has helped us gain this trust and recommendations from our clients.”

Technology

Qlik Named by Gartner as a Challenger in the 2020 Magic Quadrant for Data Integration Tools

Aug 21, 2020 by Gouri Achary 0 Comments #“Qlik’s data integration platform, #AWS, #Data Integration Tools, #Gartner, #Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud, #Qlik

Qlik® announced today that Qlik was named as a Challenger by Gartner, Inc. in the 2020 Magic Quadrant for Data Integration Tools.* This designation marks the fifth consecutive year that Qlik has been recognized in the quadrant. A complimentary copy of the full report is available for download at this link.

“Qlik’s data integration platform can help any enterprise improve their data-to-insights capabilities, which has been proven to increase overall data usage and value to the organization,” said James Fisher, Chief Product Officer at Qlik. “Our modern data integration platform automates the flow of real-time and continuous data that powers modern analytics, cloud migration, data lake management, and data integration strategies.”

Qlik’s data integration platform, when combined with the company’s analytics platform and its data literacy as a service offering, delivers the industry’s only end-to-end approach to Active Intelligence. Unlike traditional approaches, Active Intelligence realizes the potential in data pipelines by bringing together data at rest with data in motion for continuous intelligence derived from real-time, up-to-date information, and is specifically designed to take or trigger immediate actions. This approach closes the gaps from relevant to actionable data (Qlik Data Integration), actionable data to actionable insights (Qlik Analytics) and from investment to value (Data Literacy as a Service).

Qlik partners with global cloud and platform providers such as AWS, Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud, as well as organizations like Snowflake, Databricks and Confluent in delivering data warehouse automation, data lake automation and Kafka/streaming integration, with the continued expansion with global systems integrators like Accenture and Cognizant.

*Gartner, Magic Quadrant for Data Integration Tools, Ehtisham Zaidi, Eric Thoo, Nick Heudecker, Sharat Menon, Robert Thanaraj, 18 August, 2020.

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