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Infosys Launches ‘Return to Workplace’ Solutions to Help Enterprises Build Safe, Nurturing and Resilient Workplaces
BENGALURU, India, June 11, 2020 /PRNewswire/ — Infosys (NYSE: INFY), the global leader in next-generation digital services and consulting, today announced the launch of its enterprise-grade ‘Return to Workplace’ solutions to help clients ensure safety and wellness of their employees as they adapt to new ways of working amid the COVID-19 pandemic.
The cloud and edge-based solutions offer a comprehensive framework that enables enterprises to implement:
- Elevated Body Temperature (EBT) screening – Leverages automation and AI on Edge to help enterprises screen their workforce or visitors in real-time for possible infection to isolate them and prevent them from entering the establishment.
- Contact Tracing – Redefining the contact tracing category using proven technologies like GPS and BLE (Bluetooth Low Energy) to provide completely voluntary and Opt-In basis for building traceability.
- Mask Compliance / Social Distancing Compliance – Video analytics algorithms to provide alerts when masks are not detected, or the distance between people walking together or gathering at a place is not sufficient. Smart wearables can also be incorporated based on the specific situations.
- COVID-19 Chatbot – An AI-powered Digital Assistant solution to help answer employee queries related to return to work scenarios
- Contactless biometrics – Ensures employees and visitors enter workplaces in a safe manner
- Occupancy and workspace analytics – To help real estate teams track metrics on floor occupancy, density and automate sanitation routines in common areas. Contactless elevator workflows, HVAC refresh cycles and many more solutions towards ongoing workplace wellbeing.
These solutions do not collect any Personally Identifiable Information (PII) and use the power of AI, IOTVision Analytics, Edge Computing, 5G, RFID, Biometrics and Gesture controls to reduce the need for human intervention and enable data-driven decision making. The underlying platform ensures ease of maintenance and compliance reporting as required in various geographies.
Nitesh Bansal, SVP and Head- Engineering Services, Infosys, said, "The future of work will demand innovative solutions that enterprises can deploy rapidly, and at scale to ensure safety of their workforce while at the same time nurture collaboration and productivity. We are pleased to launch our ‘Return to Workplace’ offering that is aimed at positively impacting the re-opening of workspaces in a seamless, automated, and systematic manner. We are implementing some of these solutions, starting with EBT checks, across five million sq. ft. of our own office spaces as we prepare for 20,000 Infosys employees to return to their workplaces in a phased manner. We are confident that these solutions will reassure enterprises and employees that their workplaces are safe, collaborative, yet non-intrusive."
These solutions adhere to data privacy standards and practices with FDA, FCC, ISO, and IEC compliance.
Mukesh Dialani, Program Director of Product Engineering and Operations Technology/Services, IDC, said, "Infosys’ scalable and flexible ‘Return to Workplace’ solution is timely and well thought out. Adhering to data privacy standards and built on a foundation of digital engineering elements including computer vision, edge and AI, it will provide customers with processes and solutions to restart their operations in a safe and resilient manner."
To know more on how ‘Return to Workplace’ solutions came about, and watch Nitesh Bansal tell the story, click here: https://www.infosys.com/newsroom/infytv/making-our-way-back-to-workplace.html
About Infosys Ltd.
Infosys is a global leader in next-generation digital services and consulting. We enable clients in 46 countries to navigate their digital transformation. With nearly four decades of experience in managing the systems and workings of global enterprises, we expertly steer our clients through their digital journey. We do it by enabling the enterprise with an AI-powered core that helps prioritize the execution of change. We also empower the business with agile digital at scale to deliver unprecedented levels of performance and customer delight. Our always-on learning agenda drives their continuous improvement through building and transferring digital skills, expertise, and ideas from our innovation ecosystem.
Visit www.infosys.com to see how Infosys (NYSE: INFY) can help your enterprise navigate your next.
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Bright Pattern Contact Center Deployed by the Leading Real Estate Marketplace in the US
The company who revolutionized the online real estate market deploys Bright Pattern omnichannel contact center platform with Zendesk
SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO, California, June 11, 2020 /PRNewswire/ — Bright Pattern, a leading provider of AI-powered cloud contact center software for innovative companies, announced today that it was deployed by the leading real estate marketplace in the US to support customers over voice and chat. The company is dedicated to empowering consumers with data and inspiration around the place they call home. The company plans to empower customers in 2020 with a tight integration between its mobile app and the Bright Pattern platform to provide seamless connectivity to live support agents from within the app.
The online real estate company selected Bright Pattern as its cloud contact center provider because of Bright Pattern’s ability to handle innovative channels like in-app communication (talk, chat, or share documents within the mobile app), enterprise scalability, simple deployment, ease of use, and out-of-box integration with Zendesk CRM.
"Like most companies shifting to work-from-home due to the current COVID-19 pandemic, this enterprise customer needed a cloud solution that would empower their agents to effortlessly work from home with full connection to their mobile application and existing solutions," said Michael McCloskey, CEO at Bright Pattern. "Deploying a virtual contact center can be a hard task, but Bright Pattern helps by providing a platform that connects agents and teams while utilizing AI and automation to reduce contact center expenses and assist remote agents. Bright Pattern is helping enterprises across the globe migrate to the cloud and adopt omnichannel to provide a more effortless experience between multiple channels like in-app and voice. Bright Pattern’s omnichannel platform has built-in capabilities for a customer to initiate a live phone conversation or video conversation directly from the self-service mobile app."
Bright Pattern Mobile App Customer Support
Bright Pattern offers in-app customer service, empowering your customers to request live assistance directly from their mobile apps. Customers no longer have to start a call, listen to menu prompts, wait on hold, identify themselves, or explain why they are calling.
Bright Pattern Mobile App Features:
- One-click dialing and messaging directly from the mobile app for voice and video escalation
- Customer context carried from app to other channel (ie. customer data is sent to the live agent so that the customer never has to repeat themselves)
- Customer notification when an agent is ready, eliminating hold time
- Mobile messenger integration with Facebook Messenger, LINE, Telegram, Twitter, Viber, and WeChat
- Photo and media sharing within the app (ie. a car insurance customer can send an image of a car accident directly through the mobile app when filing a claim)
- Two way mobile messaging offers a convenient way to inform customers about deliveries, purchases, or suspicious activities
- Surveys can be offered at the end of all mobile interactions
- In-context reporting over all channels for a comprehensive view
- CRM integration for data consolidation and ease of use for agents
Bright Pattern Zendesk Integration
The Bright Pattern Zendesk integration leverages the information contained in your Zendesk CRM with Bright Pattern’s omnichannel cloud call center solution to provide an exceptional agent and customer experience.
Benefits of Out-of-the-box Zendesk Integration:
- Agent empowerment through unified agent desktop
- True omnichannel routing engine
- Customizable customer journey
- Robust omnichannel analytics
Read more on our Bright Pattern + Zendesk Use Cases:
- Give agents instant access to customer data
- Focus your attention on priority customer
- Effortless handling of calls, chats and SMS in Zendesk
About Bright Pattern
Bright Pattern provides the simplest and most powerful AI-powered contact center for innovative midsize and enterprise companies. With the purpose of making customer service brighter, easier, and faster than ever before, Bright Pattern offers the only true omnichannel cloud platform with embedded AI that can be deployed quickly and nimbly by business users—without costly professional services. Bright Pattern allows companies to offer an effortless, personal, and seamless customer experience across channels like voice, text, chat, email, video, messengers, and bots. Bright Pattern also allows companies to measure and act on every interaction on every channel via embedded AI omnichannel quality management capability. The company was founded by a team of industry veterans who pioneered the leading contact center solutions and today are delivering architecture for the future with an advanced cloud-first approach. Bright Pattern’s cloud contact center solution is used globally in over 26 countries and 12 languages.
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Propzy Raises $25M Fund from Gaw Capital and Softbank Ventures Asia
HO CHI MINH CITY, Vietnam, June 10, 2020 /PRNewswire/ — Propzy, a full-stack real estate platform based in Vietnam, has raised $25 million in a Series A round of funding led by Gaw Capital and Softbank Ventures, along with new and existing investors, Next Billion Ventures, RHL Ventures Breeze, FEBE Ventures, RSquare, and Insignia.
With the investment, Propzy commits to simplifying real estate transactions, from beginning to end, and managing the assets or logistics to streamline the entire real estate lifecycle, such as leasing and purchasing of landed houses and high-rise condos.
The company will also continue its expansion into leasing services by leveraging the online to offline capabilities of its platform, which has recorded 50% month-over-month growth.
As the only "firetech" (financial, insurance and real estate technology) company in Vietnam, the company pioneered the hybrid online to offline model that offers a full-stack real estate platform.
"Propzy is an example of the many macroeconomic successes in Vietnam. With its innovative breakthrough in real estate’s offline to online business models, we see the immense potential of Propzy to skyrocket," said Gaw Capital’s Managing Partner, Humbert Pang.
Vietnam has emerged as a thriving real estate market in Southeast Asia. Despite the global crisis and coronavirus pandemic, Vietnam has reached its target of over 5% GDP growth in 2020.
Despite this, however, the real estate industry still lags in terms of its adoption of new technology.
"Sellers see uncovering buyers needs as a headache that slows the buying process. Therefore, we invited a group of world-class investors to provide an advanced solution. With the largest number of estate agents in Vietnam – around 400 sales staff operating in 30 locations – we have facilitated over $1 billion in property transactions since inception and anticipate another record-setting year of growth, as we continue to expand," said Founder and CEO of Propzy, John Le.
Vietnam’s robust economy is one of the fastest-growing in Southeast Asia. Research by the World Bank found that 70% of Vietnam’s population is considered economically secure. Propzy is now well-positioned to scale its market leadership to 70 centers and 1,300 advisors nationwide over the next 18 months.
"The security that the Vietnamese economy offers to property investors and homebuyers is ideal for Propzy to thrive. We are excited to support the company in its mission to enable a 10X consumer experience in real estate," said Daniel Kang, Senior Partner of SoftBank Ventures Asia.
About Propzy
Founded in 2016 by Mr. John Le, Propzy is a full-stack real estate platform and integrated marketplace offering open house, closing-settlement services, and turn-key mortgage financing. The founder is a multiple exit serial entrepreneur behind numerous leading fintech companies, including LoanTrader and Portellus, with blue-chip investment from Goldman Sachs, CitiGroup, GE Capital, Zurich, FBR Capital and IAC.
About SoftBank Ventures Asia
Founded in 2000, SoftBank Ventures Asia is the early-stage venture arm of SoftBank Group. Their expertise lies in ICT investments including AI, IoT, and smart robotics. They look for early to growth-stage startups that have strong business potential in the global market and assist them to be plugged into the SoftBank ecosystem by facilitating side-by-side growth.
About Gaw Capital Partners
Gaw Capital Partners is private equity fund management company that focusing on real estate markets in greater China and other high barrier-to-entry markets globally. Specializing in adding strategic value to under-utilized real estate, the firm’s investments span the entire spectrum of real estate sectors, including residential development, offices, retail malls, hospitality and logistics warehouses.
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