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Voice search gives consumers the opportunity to interact with search engines in completely new ways. As Expedia learned the hard way, it is risky for a business to rely heavily on search engines as the primary source of traffic,” explains Vikas Sehgal, founder and CEO at hyperDart, a mobile search platform. The constantly changing ranking algorithms can be disruptive to online businesses that rely heavily on traffic through search engines. In an Uberall survey, only 4% of business locations had accurate information (address, hours of operations, etc.) listed on Google, Bing, and Yelp’s voice-search directory.

You’ve grown to the point where you can afford to bring on full-time employees, and you can’t wait to pick from all the talented individuals who can help your business reach the next level. You start hiring less qualified employees, and without the time to train them thoroughly, their output doesn’t reach important benchmarks. In 2017, the company experienced production glitches that threatened to delay shipping of its latest version, and the company’s stock price fell as a result. This setback doesn’t seem to have had much of an effect on the largest company in the world, but similar shipping delays could be far more detrimental to a small- or medium-sized company that doesn’t have Apple’s brand power or reputation to back it up.

If you send out a proposal to someone and they print it out to discuss it, that’s surely a good thing, right? By putting your proposal in the cloud, you will be able to track how much of the proposal was read, how long the client spent reading it etc. It’s no secret that mobile is taking over as the primary platform in B2C (for internet use and shopping, for example), but it’s also slowly making an entrance in the world of B2B. As our research has shown, the third of all proposals are opened on mobile devices, with the percentage slowly growing every year. If you want to create a proposal quickly, you will use some sort of proposal software.

Now, AI-powered chatbot systems are beginning to see use as a means of tying disparate information systems together to provide on-demand data access to those that need it. The latest generation of AI systems are built to interface with the myriad legacy information systems that are common in the finance industry. AI is being adapted to help organize and provide access to the enormous volumes of data captured by the mortgage industry, but it’s also being used to automate the collection of that data as well. That’s a big deal in an industry where up to 18% of home loan applicants end up having to redo paperwork due to missing information.