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September 26, 2018

Is Siri Up to Tact? Salesforce and Apple Announce Strategic Partnership on 'Dreamforce-Eve'

Siri, the voice assistant your dad uses when he wants to find the closest Chinese restaurant, and Salesforce, the world’s largest CRM company, will now enter into business together...

September 19, 2018

Einstein Voice gives Salesforce users gift of gab

Salespeople usually spend their days talking. They are on the phone and in meetings, but when it comes to updating Salesforce, they are back at the keyboard again typing notes and milestones, or searching for metrics about their performa...

September 19, 2018

With Einstein Voice, conversational CRM is about to go mainstream

I have to say right off the top here: Chuck Ganapathi was right! Or at least he's well on his way to being so. Chuck, the founder and CEO of Tact.AI, a startup focused on changing the way sales people interact with their CRM systems using their...

September 14, 2018

Touch, Text, Talk: Tact.ai Creates Voice-Induced FOMO for the CRM Industry

As it reaches new levels of sophistication, voice recognition software redefines the expectations that users have of their devices. CRM solutions developer Tact.ai believes that voice is going to take over the business world and become a major method

August 14, 2018

Amazon now owns $1 billion worth of other companies

Amazon has become a more active corporate investor in recent years — and now its investment portfolio is worth $1 billion for the first time...

July 31, 2018

Does Amazon need an Alexa smartphone to continue dominating the voice-first economy?

Jeff Bezos says he wants customers to "ask Alexa" for assistance wherever they are -- but can Amazon continue to dominate the next stages of the voice-first digital transformation as it has in the early days?...

April 24, 2017

Tact Takes the Stage at Oracle’s Modern Customer Experience 17 event

Tact, the sales experience platform, today announced it will be presenting at the CX Sales General Session at Oracle’s Modern Customer Experience 17 event on April 25 -27 in Las Vegas, Nevada at the Mandalay Bay Convention Center. Tact will preview the upcoming integration of its conversational AI assistant with Oracle Sales Cloud. In addition, Tact has achieved a Silver level membership within the Oracle PartnerNetwork (OPN).

March 13, 2017

Tact Named on the Constellation ShortList™ for Sales Productivity

Tact, the sales experience platform, today announced it was named to the Constellation ShortList for Sales Productivity for Q1 2017. With 52 percent of the Fortune 500 turning over since 2000, success requires a rethink around the core mission and business model of an organization. The companies included on the Constellation ShortList provide the key functionality and requirements for early adopters pursuing digital transformation initiatives...

January 31, 2017

Tact Brings its Conversational AI Assistant to the Slack Enterprise Grid

Tact, the sales experience platform, today announced its AI-powered smart assistant for salespeople is now available in messaging environments like the newly released Slack Enterprise Grid. Sales teams can now access their most critical tools -- Salesforce, LinkedIn, Zendesk and more – through natural touch, text and voice interfaces without ever having to leave the conversation...

December 12, 2016

Tact Secures $15 Million Series B

Tact, the sales experience platform, today announced the close of a new $15 million funding round. Upfront Ventures led the series B, with its managing partner Mark Suster joining the Board. Microsoft Ventures also participated in the new financing round, along with existing investors Kevin Efrusy of Accel Partners and Satish Dharmaraj of Redpoint Ventures. With the new capital, Tact’s total funding now exceeds $30 million.

March 24, 2016

Tactile Wins Gold Stevie® Award for Best Relationship Management Solution

Tactile, the leader in mobile sales productivity, today announced it has won a Gold Stevie® Award for Best Relationship Management Solution (new version) in the tenth annual Stevie Awards for Sales and Customer Service. This is the second consecutive year that Tactile has achieved this honor. Other notable Stevie Award winners this year include CallidusCloud, Clearslide, Hubspot, Microsoft Dynamics CRM, Salesforce, SugarCRM and Xactly.

December 1, 2015

WebEx Founder and Cloud Computing Pioneer Subrah Iyar Joins Tactile as Investor and Strategic Board Advisor

Tactile, the company on a mission to make the world a happier place to work, today announced that renowned technology industry veteran Subrah Iyar has been named Board Observer and Strategic Advisor to its Board of Directors. Iyar was the co-founder and CEO of WebEx and led the company to its $3.2 billion acquisition by Cisco Systems in 2007. Tactile also announced that Iyar has made an undisclosed investment in the company to help fuel its...

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