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()7 is an information technology service company with headquarters in Silicon Valley, United States. == Company== ()7 was founded in April 2000 by P V Kannan and Shanmugam Nagarajan. In 2003 it was privately funded in part by Michael Moritz and his venture capital firm Sequoia Capital. The total venture funding was estimated at about $22 million. The company reportedly was profitable by the end of 2003. Its early offerings were contact center services with voice contact center agents. Today the company develops sales- and service-oriented software that encompasses big data, predictive analytics, virtual agents and real-time decisioning. It integrates different channels of communication, including web chat, mobile devices and interactive voice response, which incorporates the company's proprietary natural language technology. The company also operates contact centers that outsource both voice and chat agent services, for sales and support, to companies worldwide. Its largest customers are in telecommunications, financial services, retail, insurance and travel industries. The company is headquartered in Campbell, California. Other offices are located in London and Sydney. Contact centers were originally located in Bangalore and Hyderabad, India, and in the Philippines, but by 2007 (with about 7,000 total employees) expanded to Guatemala, Nicaragua, and Colombia to support Spanish-language customers. In February 2012 a deal was announced in which ()7 and Microsoft would combine technologies for natural user interfaces (NUIs) and data analytics at cloud scale. Microsoft made an equity investment and transferred about 400 employees of the former Tellme Networks to ()7. At the same time, ()7 acquired the call center automation developer Voxify, which had been based in Alameda, California, and was funded by investors such as Intel. In 2012 the company rebranded its business, adopting a new logo dropping the word "Customer" and putting square brackets around the "24". In January 2013 it announced it would market some internally developed software products for combining chat with analytics. In November 2014, ()7 acquired IntelliResponse, a provider of digital self-service technology including virtual agent solutions. In July 2015, the company announced it had become the world's largest provider of chat agents, with more than 5,000 dedicated chat agents operating in its contact centers. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「24/7 Customer」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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