Category: Ipad

Most Creative Chatbots on the Web

Chatbots such as those from Convertobot are software applications that simulate conversations in human speech whether written or spoken. Chatbots are usually offered as web-based applications or stand-alone applications.

As chatbots get cheaper and easier to build, they will become increasingly popular in the future. In fact, you can create a chatbot yourself today that you can use in an app like Facebook Messenger with little to no coding skills.

However, some apps are clearly better than others and of all the chatbots you will find online the following are some of the most innovative chatbots on the web:

  1. Endurance

Endurance is an application for dementia patients whose conversational skills are in sharp decline. Endure is a companion chatbot designed to identify digressions in conversations which indicate a problem with memory.

For an NLP-based system, Endurance is quite ambitious. The chatbot is also cloud based so it can be used …

Better Returns for Your Endowment Using IT As a Differentiator?

First, and arguably the easiest, by fine tuning their investment model inputs. To elaborate with a simple example, simply by increasing the accuracy of manager fee and liquidity terms entered in the system, most analytical models produce better results, thereby enabling you to make better investment decisions, and hence generating better returns. Typically, fees and related terms once entered are never looked at again throughout the life-cycle of the investment. Technology can, in the simplest form, assign an age to the data and prompt portfolio managers to review the data on a periodic basis. More technologically mature organizations can easily leverage their existing hooks in to the data provider systems and update data in real-time/near real-time.

Kicking it up a notch, are the staff who are making investment decisions able to perform scenario and sensitivity analysis with ease? Or do they find themselves in a situation where every time they

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