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5 Predictions for 2020

Tom Tunguz

Look no further than AWS Re:Invent where Amazon announced an entire suite of Machine Learning tools that compete with nearly every player in the ecosystem in every level of the stack. Startups begin to siphon off important but underserved segments of SaaS incumbent's customer bases. True but hard to judge.

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Tray.io’s VP of Marketing Alex Ortiz on embracing the era of automation

Intercom, Inc.

And if you think about AWS, if you think about the rise of cloud data warehousing, that is a big technology change and a big game changer for a lot of companies. Instead of being automated out of his job, he’s now leveraging machine learning to help him do his job better and increasing his value to the company.

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State of the Cloud 2019: Europa Edition with Alex Ferrara, Bessemer Venture Partners (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

It was around that time about 12 years ago that Jeff Bezos launched AWS, and some of you may remember that, when he did this, Wall Street analysts were looking at him and saying, “Why would you take what’s already a very unprofitable business and drive it further into the red by investing in this AWS initiative?”

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The decade software ate the world

Intercom, Inc.

The wave of SaaS companies that built themselves on the likes of AWS and Azure have reinforced the pre-eminence of cloud computing. And that changes a lot: how we think about marketing, how we think about what our product is and how we think about what customer success actually is…This shift moves us from brand promiscuity to brand loyalty.”.

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Salesforce’s Mike Kreaden on how to build a platform to drive growth

Intercom, Inc.

Customer nurturing now starts from the first touch, and AI can help with that. Machine learning can get the right message or recommendation out in a responsive way – not just from the customer’s next best action, but from the sales perspective, too. There are plenty of companies that actually have that initial success.

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24 Predictions for SaaS in 2024

Chart Mogul

Just like machine learning before it disappeared in the background, AI will soon be so ubiquitous that it’s no longer a differentiator. Chatbots and virtual assistants using natural language processing and machine learning will become the norm for things like customer support. In a better way too.”

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Intercom’s Fergal Reid and Ciaran Lee on the making of Resolution Bot

Intercom, Inc.

We sat down for a chat with our own Fergal Reid, Principal Machine Learning Engineer, to learn why Answer Bot had to evolve past simply answering questions to focus on solving problems at scale. Fergal Reid: I lead the Machine Learning team at Intercom. I joined Intercom about two and a half years ago.