Virtusa and Xtone Partner to Bring Assistant Solutions to Enterprise Mobile Apps
Virtusa to resell and provide implementation services for
Xtone voice assistant platform.
WESTBOROUGH, Mass. & BOSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--
Virtusa Corporation (NASDAQ: VRTU), a global business consulting and IT outsourcing company that combines innovation, technology leadership and industry solutions to transform the customer experience, and Xtone, provider of the Xavi Platform for Voice Assistants, today announced a partnership to enhance the user experience for mobile enterprise apps with the power of natural language understanding and conversational interfaces. The companies will jointly offer a broad range of Voice Assistant solutions from simple voice extensions to existing mobile apps to comprehensive conversational interfaces that are seamlessly integrated with enterprise contact centers.
"Now that mobile users are adopting speech-driven personal assistants like Apple's Siri™ and Google Now, the race is on for enterprises to offer engaging natural language interfaces for their apps in finance, insurance, travel and other industries that serve users on the go," said Frank Palermo, senior vice president, Global Technical Solutions Group, Virtusa. "With the Virtusa/Xtone solution, innovative enterprises can differentiate their mobile apps with an engaging conversational experience that will establish industry leadership, build brand loyalty and ultimately reduce customer care costs."
The Virtusa/Xtone Voice Assistant solution is based on Xtone's patented Xavi™ platform, which offers a write-once/run-anywhere development and deployment environment that supports both iOS and Android devices. With its distributed architecture and XML language and tools, Xavi enables developers to implement voice assistants as independent hands-free/eyes-free apps or tightly integrated with an existing mobile interface, giving users a rich, mixed-modal experience that supports any combination of speech and tap control.
"Xavi™ is the first platform that is built with a mobile developer in mind. We provide a feature set that enables mobile developers to focus on voice driven use cases and experiences with the confidence that the underlying Xavi™ platform will handle the implementation specifics," said Vishal Dhawan, CTO of Xtone. "The technical strengths of the Xavi platform combined with the innovation-driven solution development capabilities of Virtusa will help us meet the demand and, together, we will build apps for our clients that are enjoyable for the user and more productive for the enterprise."
Virtusa and Xtone offer a variety of mobility implementation services including UI design, application development and integration, speech tuning, testing, deployment and ongoing managed services. Virtusa also offers Mobile Voice Assistants as part of its Mobility Proof-of-Concept Factory model, which enables clients to test and validate mobile solutions in Virtusa's Innovation Lab prior to full-scale deployment.
About Virtusa
Virtusa provides end-to-end information technology (IT) services to Global 2000 companies. These services, which include IT consulting, application maintenance, development, systems integration and managed services, leverage a unique Platforming methodology that transforms clients' businesses through IT rationalization. Virtusa helps customers accelerate business outcomes by consolidating, rationalizing, and modernizing their core customer-facing processes into one or more core systems.
Virtusa delivers cost-effective solutions through a global delivery model, applying advanced methods such as Agile and Accelerated Solution Design to ensure that its solutions meet the clients' requirements. As a result, its clients simultaneously reduce their IT operations cost while increasing their ability to meet changing business needs. Founded in 1996 and headquartered in Massachusetts, Virtusa has operations in North America, Europe, and Asia.
© 2011 - 2013 Virtusa Corporation. All rights reserved.
Virtusa, Accelerating Business Outcomes, BPM Test Drive and Productization are registered trademarks of Virtusa Corporation. All other company and brand names may be trademarks or service marks of their respective holders
About Xtone
Xtone provides the patented Xavi Voice Assistant Platform and Plug-Ins for a variety of leading mobile devices. The Xavi platform enables mobile developers to quickly enhance their apps with voice assistants that interact with users in a unique, engaging way. The Xavi Platform offers a comprehensive development environment coupled with a cloud-based managed service for deployment.
WESTBOROUGH, Mass. & BOSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--
Virtusa Corporation (NASDAQ: VRTU), a global business consulting and IT outsourcing company that combines innovation, technology leadership and industry solutions to transform the customer experience, and Xtone, provider of the Xavi Platform for Voice Assistants, today announced a partnership to enhance the user experience for mobile enterprise apps with the power of natural language understanding and conversational interfaces. The companies will jointly offer a broad range of Voice Assistant solutions from simple voice extensions to existing mobile apps to comprehensive conversational interfaces that are seamlessly integrated with enterprise contact centers.
"Now that mobile users are adopting speech-driven personal assistants like Apple's Siri™ and Google Now, the race is on for enterprises to offer engaging natural language interfaces for their apps in finance, insurance, travel and other industries that serve users on the go," said Frank Palermo, senior vice president, Global Technical Solutions Group, Virtusa. "With the Virtusa/Xtone solution, innovative enterprises can differentiate their mobile apps with an engaging conversational experience that will establish industry leadership, build brand loyalty and ultimately reduce customer care costs."
The Virtusa/Xtone Voice Assistant solution is based on Xtone's patented Xavi™ platform, which offers a write-once/run-anywhere development and deployment environment that supports both iOS and Android devices. With its distributed architecture and XML language and tools, Xavi enables developers to implement voice assistants as independent hands-free/eyes-free apps or tightly integrated with an existing mobile interface, giving users a rich, mixed-modal experience that supports any combination of speech and tap control.
"Xavi™ is the first platform that is built with a mobile developer in mind. We provide a feature set that enables mobile developers to focus on voice driven use cases and experiences with the confidence that the underlying Xavi™ platform will handle the implementation specifics," said Vishal Dhawan, CTO of Xtone. "The technical strengths of the Xavi platform combined with the innovation-driven solution development capabilities of Virtusa will help us meet the demand and, together, we will build apps for our clients that are enjoyable for the user and more productive for the enterprise."
Virtusa and Xtone offer a variety of mobility implementation services including UI design, application development and integration, speech tuning, testing, deployment and ongoing managed services. Virtusa also offers Mobile Voice Assistants as part of its Mobility Proof-of-Concept Factory model, which enables clients to test and validate mobile solutions in Virtusa's Innovation Lab prior to full-scale deployment.
About Virtusa
Virtusa provides end-to-end information technology (IT) services to Global 2000 companies. These services, which include IT consulting, application maintenance, development, systems integration and managed services, leverage a unique Platforming methodology that transforms clients' businesses through IT rationalization. Virtusa helps customers accelerate business outcomes by consolidating, rationalizing, and modernizing their core customer-facing processes into one or more core systems.
Virtusa delivers cost-effective solutions through a global delivery model, applying advanced methods such as Agile and Accelerated Solution Design to ensure that its solutions meet the clients' requirements. As a result, its clients simultaneously reduce their IT operations cost while increasing their ability to meet changing business needs. Founded in 1996 and headquartered in Massachusetts, Virtusa has operations in North America, Europe, and Asia.
© 2011 - 2013 Virtusa Corporation. All rights reserved.
Virtusa, Accelerating Business Outcomes, BPM Test Drive and Productization are registered trademarks of Virtusa Corporation. All other company and brand names may be trademarks or service marks of their respective holders
About Xtone
Xtone provides the patented Xavi Voice Assistant Platform and Plug-Ins for a variety of leading mobile devices. The Xavi platform enables mobile developers to quickly enhance their apps with voice assistants that interact with users in a unique, engaging way. The Xavi Platform offers a comprehensive development environment coupled with a cloud-based managed service for deployment.
Xavi is a trademark of Xtone.
Contact:
Greenough
Jessica Boardman, 617-275-6514
jboardman@greenough.biz
or
Xtone
Mike Rozelsky, 617-504-2942
mike@xtone.com