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Connect with Dubber at Mobile World Congress 2022!

Connect with Dubber at Mobile World Congress 2022!

We are excited to be exhibiting the world’s #1 Unified Conversational Recording and Voice AI platform at Mobile World Congress 2022. Now is the chance to see our industry-leading solution in action; learn how to add voice data rocket fuel for mobile revenue with Dubber.

Five reasons to visit Dubber

  • Your customers are demanding a network-embedded service for compliant recording and conversational intelligence that extends to every end-point – mobile, phone, video and chat. When your network is mobile, shouldn’t your call recording and AI be mobile as well?
  • Your competitors are differentiating their portfolio and maximising the revenue and retention potential of every connection with Unified Conversational Recording and Voice AI. Make yourself stand out in a sea of UC sameness.
  • Stop paying for legacy call recording. Dubber is the solution 160+ leading mobile networks and service providers are utilising to modernise and monetize their approach to call recording, unifying end-points and enriching recordings with AI to unlock a multi-billion dollar market opportunity.
  • Deploy in minutes on your solutions. We’re the only preferred and native Unified Conversational recording solution on Cisco Webex Calling, can double your revenue on Microsoft Operator Connect, and embed easily in the widest range of communication solutions including MS Teams and Zoom.
  • Boost productivity for your customers. Be among the first to see Dubber Notes in action; the digital meeting organiser and notetaker that integrates with all major online meeting and project management platforms to streamline meetings and drive employee productivity outcomes for your customers.

Schedule a 1:1 demo with the team

We have big prizes on offer when you schedule and attend a demo with the team at Mobile World Congress 2022

  • 5x Apple AirPod Pros
  • 2x Apple AirPod Max
  • We also have a £1,000 travel voucher to put toward your next holiday when you complete our on-site survey

 

Comment from Andy Lark on the event:

“Our debut at MWC is a powerful opportunity for mobile network operators and service providers to get up close and personal with Dubber, to see how our solution helps accelerate innovation and retain more value. The power of native cloud-based voice recording, storage, and voice data across the breadth of your mobile and Unified Communications is undeniable. Schedule some time with us to create a blueprint to 2x revenue on every endpoint.”

 

Schedule a time with Dubber at MWC22!

The race to offer call recording as a service in telco mobile networks

The race to offer call recording as a service in telco mobile networks

With revenue streams and retention under pressure like never before, and customers demanding solutions for compliance, productivity and intelligence – the race is on to offer call recording and AI as a service in the mobile network.

Hybrid working has increased usage of mobile and rapid adoption of unified communications, such as Microsoft Teams, Zoom and Cisco Webex, for crucial customer interactions. This has made it more challenging for businesses to meet regulatory and legal requirements – and for service providers to address those needs.

Behind the use cases that mandate call recording is the broader need to enhance productivity and harness the power of AI and data from a once untappable data source, conversations.

Applications such as Dubber’s automated note-taking – fuelled by native and cloud call recording – now make it possible to enhance the productivity of every worker through automated note-taking, AI-enriched insights, and connectivity to critical enterprise apps. Now an action spoken of in a meeting can be instantly captured, translated, and added to Asana as a task.

Mobile service providers are set to benefit from the drive to record. With Gartner indicating that by 2025, 75% of conversations at work will be recorded and analyzed, mobile call recording provides a significant market opportunity for service providers who already provide the network infrastructure for these conversations.

Service providers instantly get access to a high-value recurring revenue stream that can well exceed $100m per annum. They achieve differentiation not just from the service but also from the new services they can deliver based on AI-enriched data sets. And, retention increased as the value of the service moves beyond just connections to how the service provider delivers value from the content on those connections. 5G in of itself, as an example won’t be enough to accelerate service provider growth. It’s the new ways in which 5G can be used – such as unified call recording – that will make the difference in 2022” – James Slaney, chief operating officer, Dubber.

The days of legacy call recording are over and don’t scale to record mobile and UC conversations. Hardware, services, siloed data and ever-increasing storage costs are being replaced with call recording and AI solutions delivered as a service, by Service Providers.

Dubber has recently partnered with Optus to deliver mobile voice recording and AI, an Australia-first, as a native feature of the Optus mobile network. As a result, Optus Enterprise customers have access to a cost-effective and complete recording and conversational insights solution across virtually any form of communication – including transcriptions, sentiment analysis, real-time search and more.

“Through our strategic partnership with Dubber we can now boost our customers productivity, visibility, and effectiveness. Optus’ Australian first native integration of Dubber into our mobile network allows participating enterprise customers the ability to unlock the power of conversational AI to push the frontier of how they care for customers, train and coach employees, resolve disputes and meet crucial compliance mandates.” 

Zorawar Singh, Head of Core Product, Optus Enterprise

It’s time to do more with every conversation on mobile networks.

Dubber named on FinTech Global’s fifth annual RegTech 100 list

Dubber named on FinTech Global’s fifth annual RegTech 100 list

The new RegTech100 list for 2022 is launched today. Now in its fifth edition, the list recognises the world’s most innovative technology solution providers that offer products and services in the areas of compliance, risk management, information security and financial crime.

The RegTech (regulatory technology) industry has experienced rapid growth over the last two years as financial institutions dealt with rising tide of regulatory changes and rules updates brought by remote working and increased use of digital channels post Covid-19. As a result, RegTech spending by banks and other highly regulated institutions is projected to exceed $130bn by 2025.

It’s not surprising this year’s process to identify the 100 RegTech innovation leaders was more competitive than ever. A panel of analysts and industry experts voted from a longlist of nearly 1,200 companies produced by RegTech Analyst, a specialist research firm. Sixty new companies entered the RegTech100 for 2022 and the finalists were recognized for their innovative use of technology to solve a significant industry problem, or to generate efficiency improvements across the compliance function.

RegTech Analyst director of research Mariyan Dimitrov said, “Banks and other financial institutions are investing heavily into AI capabilities to automate highly manual regulatory tasks, support digital onboarding processes and monitor for fraudulent activity. The RegTech100 list helps them filter through all the vendors in the market by highlighting the leading companies in sectors such as identity verification, risk management, communications monitoring, information security and financial crime prevention.”

Dubber VP of Sales, Simon Broadbent said, “Dubber’s inclusion on the RegTech100 list is a great display of the confidence the market has in us as a leading provider of unified conversational recording and voice AI to the world’s leading banks and financial institutions.”

A full list of the RegTech100 for 2022 and detailed information about each company is available to download for free at www.RegTech100.com.

Dubber wins The RegTech Association “2021 RegTech of the Year” Award

Dubber wins The RegTech Association “2021 RegTech of the Year” Award

Melbourne, Australia – 2 December 2021 — Dubber Corporation Limited (ASX: DUB) today announced that the RegTech Association has awarded Dubber the 2021 RegTech of the Year (Australian-founded).

James Slaney, COO, Dubber: “Unified conversational recording and intelligence unlock a significant opportunity for Service Providers to meet the compliance and surveillance needs of businesses globally. With a record number of applications and supported by a cross-industry judging panel, this award acknowledges the work of our teams and customers.

Recognition such as this furthers our ability to attract new service providers onto the world’s leading conversational recording platform. The days of legacy call recording are over. Hardware, services, siloed data and ever-increasing storage costs are being replaced with compliance solutions delivered as a service, by Service Providers.

Where legacy call recording solutions were tied to a specific application or service, we can near-instantaneously create compliance certainty with our Service Provider partners across all the services they provide – Cisco Webex Calling, Microsoft Teams, traditional unified communication and mobile services through a single pane.

This provides a win for all parties.  Service providers create compelling differentiation and revenue and their customers eliminate the cost, complexity and lack of visibility legacy solutions create. Businesses can now enable their employees to work the way they want to work, and for customers to communicate the way they want to communicate, without compromising compliance or security.”

Until now, the need for hybrid working and rapid adoption of unified communications solutions has made it more challenging for businesses to meet regulatory and legal requirements – and for service providers to address those needs.

Dubber’s Unified Conversational Recording and Intelligence platform is a foundational service for Service Providers to deliver compliance and surveillance solutions. It enables conversations to be captured in real-time – voice, video and chat – and transformed into data on which AI surfaces insights, alerts and more. From a single platform, data from any number of communications services can be viewed and shared with big data sets and other applications. Businesses can demonstrate they know customers and employees and meet compliance mandates such as MiFID, FINRA, AML & KYCRG 271Anti-hawking and more.

Unified Call Recording and Intelligence is now at the centre of modernising compliance and surveillance in industries ranging from financial services to entertainment and travel. By unifying conversations and AI-enriching data, organizations can address critical needs for legal hold and discovery, data retention, auditing, internal dispute resolution, monitoring, alerting and reporting, and more.

About the RegTech Association

The RegTech Association is a global centre of excellence that brings together government, regulators, regulated entities, professional services and founder-led RegTech companies for best-practice collaboration.

About Dubber:

Dubber is unlocking the potential of voice data from any call or conversation. Dubber is the world’s most scalable Unified Call Recording service and Voice Intelligence Cloud adopted as core network infrastructure by multiple global leading telecommunications carriers in North America, Europe and Asia Pacific. Dubber allows service providers to offer conversational recording from virtually any source – turning them into AI-enriched insights for compliance, revenue, customer and people intelligence. Dubber is a disruptive innovator in the multi-billion-dollar call recording industry. Its Software as a Service offering removes the need for on-premise hardware, applications or costly and limited storage.

For more information, please contact:

Investors
Simon Hinsley
simon.hinsley@dubber.net
+61 (0) 401 809 653

Media
Terry Alberstein
terry@navigatecommunication.com.au
+61 (0) 458 484 921

BT Selects Dubber for Unified Recording and Conversational Intelligence

BT Selects Dubber for Unified Recording and Conversational Intelligence

Melbourne, Australia – 2 December 2021 — Dubber Corporation Limited (ASX: DUB) has finalised a partnership agreement with BT that will see Dubber embedded as the default recording and conversational intelligence solution in the BT Meetings suite of managed services, spanning solutions based on Microsoft Teams, Zoom and Cisco Webex.

UK based BT is a leading provider of global communications services and solutions, serving customers in 180 countries.

The multi-year partnership agreement will see BT deliver unified call recording (UCR) to multinational organisations globally. BT has already worked with Dubber to implement UCR services with major financial institutions and the partners are engaged in significant opportunities globally. This new agreement provides for an accretive revenue stream for Dubber with additional revenues determined by uptake of the service by BT customers.

The Dubber and BT solution is the most advanced of its kind. It helps customers meet their compliance obligations for secure and scalable recording and conversational intelligence, and is provisioned as a scalable software as a service. UCR enables enterprise-grade recording and replay of any conversation – voice, video, and text. Enterprises can discover AI-enriched insights enhancing compliance, people, revenue, and customer intelligence by unifying conversations from multiple sources – mobile, unified communications and traditional phones. Together, BT and Dubber will help multinational organisations benefit from conversational AI at scale and eliminate the cost and complexity of legacy call recording and siloed recording services.

Steve McGovern, CEO, Dubber: “We are really pleased to be delivering Dubber unified recording and conversational AI as a core feature to BT, a true global telecommunications leader. The newly released managed service offerings will enable BT to continue to demonstrate its innovation leadership. Multinational organisations can now depend on BT for the high-performing secure connections it is known for, but now also for delivering outstanding value from the content inside every conversation on BT services.

For Dubber it marks another milestone in our journey to Dub the world’s leading networks, AI-enabling every endpoint, and creating high-value technology and distribution partnerships based on our Foundation model.”

Hriday Ravindranath, Chief Product and Digital Officer, BT: “Together we are meeting a critical customer need to know what was said to drive better compliance outcomes, especially in industries such as financial services, improve employee wellbeing and training over UC and enable better customer experience. The partnership announced today by Dubber and BT is just the start of an exciting, shared journey of innovation and collaboration that will shape the future of conversational capture and AI.”

This ASX announcement has been approved for release to ASX by Steve McGovern, CEO & Managing Director.

For more information, please contact:

Investors: Simon Hinsley
simon.hinsley@dubber.net
+61 (0) 401 809 653

Media: Terry Alberstein
terry@navigatecommunication.com.au
+61 (0) 458 484 921

Four ways service providers globally are winning with conversational data

Four ways service providers globally are winning with conversational data

Service and solution providers globally are capturing conversations and monetizing voice connections using unified call recording and AI.

Here are the four ways that they are benefiting.

1. Delivering connections and content

Network-native unified conversational recording and AI can be deployed with minimal cost and deployment effort. It means service providers can quickly provide valuable content and intelligence, such as compliance, customer and people insights to customers.

While bundling is traditionally a calling, internet, and video service package, operators can leverage service/content bundling, together with conversational recording and data insights, to help reduce subscriber churn by up to 50%. (S&P Global Insights)

“Customers worldwide are responding to increased regulatory and compliance obligations for their businesses. Embedding tools, like Dubber call recording, as a standard service that is available to Webex users will help customers meet those requirements while enabling easy access to powerful advanced voice data services.”

– Lorrissa Horton Vice President and General Manager of Webex Calling and Online

2. Accelerated and increased revenue

Service providers are building new and differentiated services with unified call recording and AI that answer customer needs (for compliance, customer and people intelligence) and create a pathway to increased revenue, retention and new customer acquisition.

During COVID-19 recovery, service providers are expected to see new levels of demand across revenue streams in IaaS/SaaS, Cybersecurity, Unified comms, Managed services, and IoT/Industry solutions. (PwC’s Where next for telecommunications?)

“The addition of Dubber into our portfolio has allowed us to unlock new revenue streams in call recording. We share with Dubber a passion to help customers realise the full power of their voice data and achieve compliant communications. The Dubber team provides us with all the support we need to effectively offer this with their Unified Call Recording and Voice AI platform.”

– Paul Harrison Managing Director – Evolve IP

3. AI-Driven Competitive advantage

Service providers are unlocking the power of voice data, AI and NLP as a source of competitive differentiation in every deal and customer account to deliver significant value.

“Dubber has become a crucial partner for Redcentric, we lead with their unified call recording technology but their developments around AI-enriched conversational intelligence really give us the ability to differentiate ourselves and expand the conversation with our customers to add further value.”

– Alex Wilmot, Solutions Director, Redcentric

4. Winning the transition to cloud and work from anywhere

Demand for conversational data has never been stronger, driven by compliance mandates, the need to reduce costs, and a rapidly dispersed workforce working across multiple IP connections.

Growth in unified communications continues to accelerate. Microsoft now has over 280 million monthly active users on Microsoft Teams and over 80 million on Microsoft calling. And UCaaS is following a similar trend with Gartner forecasting it to grow from $46bn in 2020 to $140bn in 2025.

“The collaboration between the M247 and Dubber teams has been excellent. Dubber is changing the field of play when it comes to cloud call recording and conversational intelligence – in-turn this is key value we’re able to provide to our customers.” 

– Steve Briant, Head of Enterprise Sales, M247

Moving beyond simply selling connections to monetizing the value of content on the network is a key service provider growth strategy.

Network native conversational recording creates differentiation from day one that only grows as the insights in data are unlocked. Creating a large addressable opportunity from a broad user base creates significant ARR upside. It’s why leading providers from AT&T to Cisco and Telstra are deploying Dubber today.

Your customers know what they want. Are you listening?

Your customers know what they want. Are you listening?

A wealth of data is locked in the conversations your business is having with customers. Conversational intelligence is the key to unlocking that wealth so you can differentiate your business in the market, boost revenue and retain customers.

Chances are, you already listen to your customers.

You do if you use call recording for compliance or training purposes.

That means you are capturing valuable insights into business performance.

Listening to what customers say is the best way to understand what they want. Pay close attention and you will know what they think and how they might respond to offers. You will understand them better.

It’s important to hear both the words and the music in a conversation. That is, the tone, the hesitations and other non-word clues.

Do that and you’ll pick up crucial insights you won’t find in other forms of communication.

Until now this has been hard to do.

Face-to-face listening is hard to scale. Team members dealing with incoming calls tend to focus on specifics. That’s how they are trained and it is how they are rewarded.

Any intelligence gathering done the manual way is, at best, secondary.

Now, thanks to Dubber cloud-based call recording, you can listen and understand what your customers are saying. Cloud based recording means you can capture every spoken word. You can collect both the words and the music of business conversations at scale.

There’s something certain about an audio recording of a conversation. Other records, either a written note or a reported conversation are only hearsay. They can’t be substantiated. In a strict legal sense they are little more than rumour. There’s always a degree of uncertainty. With an audio recording, or a written transcript of an audio recording you are dealing with verifiable information.

What’s more, when you capture a conversation by making notes, you are not listening closely enough to what is being said. Your brain is in a translating, transcribing mode. It’s controlling your pen or your figures on a keyboard.

When everything is recorded in the background you can focus on listening.

Better still, the technology means you can automate the listening.

AI, sentiment analysis and other techniques can pay close attention to every moment of every conversation.

Say there’s a barely audible wince when your team member mentions price to the customer. Or a gasp when new product features are described. They are powerful signals that team members might overlook — the software doesn’t miss a beat.

It means for the first time you can know what customers actually think.

You can better understand customers and their needs.

This gives you the power to differentiate your business.

You’ll get better customer satisfaction.

AI tools can warn that a customer is thinking of going elsewhere. You’ll have time to move in early to avoid losing their business.

None of this requires dramatic change to your business process. It uses tools you have at your disposal.

Now is the time to act.

Gartner says by 2025 companies will record three quarters of business conversations.

Voice is the most common communications channel between a business and its customers. Around four out of five customer interactions are voice conversations.

Once you are recording all your calls, it’s a short step to mining them for customer intelligence.

The best way to do this is with cloud call recording. In the past companies installed on premise call recording systems. They linked them to centralised call centres.

That’s useful, but centralised call centres only capture half of all customer conversations. Many businesses have found accessing and mining calls from legacy systems difficult and slow.

These days the interactions that matter take place elsewhere. Remote work teams and mobile employees mean people can take calls anywhere.

That’s why capturing voice data at the network level is vital. A cloud call recording system with instant easy access to conversations like Dubber does this for you.

Watch: Dubber’s Customer Success Story on AWS

Watch: Dubber’s Customer Success Story on AWS

We’re cloud-native – proudly always have been. Back in 2011, at a time when cloud services were more conceptual than reality over here in Australia, Dubber realised the massive potential of making our product a cloud-native offering.

Partnering with AWS in their first Australian regional offering almost 10 years ago was a no brainer for us – and continues to be a valued and foundational partnership, as AWS goes from strength to strength as the world’s largest cloud services provider.

James Slaney, our Co-Founder and COO, sat down with Aley Hammer from AWS to talk about Dubber’s success on AWS to date.

Watch as James unwraps the power of Voice AI for businesses worldwide, how service providers are leveraging Dubber to create more value for customers on their networks, and how our centralised data services platform on AWS is available at the click of a button.

Thanks to AWS and the power of cloud, we can offer unlimited scale and always-on availability that modern enterprises have come to rely on.

For those with a different enterprise architecture mandate, we’re also ready for your data storage and processing requirements on Azure, GCP, data centres, internal enterprise or hybrid environments – so ask us if you had something a little different in mind.

Unlock intelligence from every conversation with Dubber AI

Unlock intelligence from every conversation with Dubber AI

Capture more than an mp3, video, or flat transcript – unlock the power of Conversational Intelligence with Dubber AI.

Conversational Intelligence: beyond basic recording and transcription to an enriched data-set of words, speakers, emotions, languages, and themes. With these meaning-enriched data sets, users can create and trigger real-time automated actions and workflows.

Download our Dubber AI whitepaper to find out:

  • How to unlock comms channel data silos with Unified Conversational Recording
  • How we embed Dubber AI into every conversation; to hit compliance mandates, plus fuel revenue, people, and customer intelligence
  • What’s under the hood in Dubber AI & the Voice Intelligence Cloud
  • Use cases & best practices for Dubber AI-enhanced conversational analysis & actions – improve customer experience, boost employee performance, heighten fraud detection, and more
Capture conversations, enrich with AI for the full picture, surface dataset insights in real-time, and create trigger-based actions on conversations as they happen.

Here’s how Dubber AI does it.

Roadmap 2025: 3 Key Strategic Rollout Goals for Conversational Intelligence in Business

Roadmap 2025: 3 Key Strategic Rollout Goals for Conversational Intelligence in Business

“By 2025, 75% of conversations at work will be recorded and analyzed, enabling the discovery of added organizational value or risk.”

Gartner’s prediction, one we quote often, comes from the Top 10 Strategic Predictions for 2021 and Beyond: Resetting Everything. The paper is one that clever CIOs use to help shape their company’s strategic plans, capturing trending societal, business, and technological changes to ensure successful business advantage going forward.

So what does this mean for business and government over the coming years?

Conversational Intelligence is a powerful tool, but one that needs strategic direction to have the most significant impact on business. 

Map timelines for successful business outcomes with these three key goals.

 

1. Meet compliance mandates and decrease risk

“In 2020, penalties have totalled $10.6 billion for non-compliance with Anti-Money Laundering (AML), Know your Customer (KYC), data privacy and MiFID (Markets in Financial Instruments Directive) regulations.” – Up Close and Personal; The Year of Personal Accountability, Fenergo

Hitting compliance mandates is the lowest-hanging fruit for strategic planning in Conversational Intelligence today. It is possible to satisfy compliance mandates and legislation in voice conversations within company, industry, affiliative, and regional requirements today with Conversational Intelligence.

With growing business data and information security overheads and reporting mandates across all sectors, business voice conversations also need capturing to ensure compliance. Unified Conversational Intelligence is the only solution.

To do this effectively, companies must ensure:

  • The unified conversational intelligence solution records all relevant in-person and remote voice conversations – it needs to do so with appropriate controls in place and without ties to specific applications, rather as a service
  • Recordings, transcriptions, and conversational data and metadata sets are stored in accordance with relevant data security requirements and timelines
  • Conversational Intelligence data is quickly searchable, replayable and reportable
  • A unified conversational data set is secured, protected and managed to the same standard as all datasets

Phase two of creating business outcomes – whether for compliance, revenue, people or customer intelligence – is to present multi-dimensional insights such as instant notification of breaches or risky activities, flagging keywords (e.g. ‘offshore’, ‘cancel’, ‘unhappy’) or behaviours (e.g. angry customer).

 

2. Conversational Intelligence value streams aligned to business strategy are identified and actioned

“It’s the opportunity to take your existing product line and market it better, develop it better, use it to improve customer service, or to get a 360-degree understanding of your customer. Data Strategy is driven by your organization’s overall Business Strategy and business model.” – Data Management vs. Data Strategy: A Framework for Business Success, Donna Burbank, Managing Director at Global Data Strategy

The problem facing leaders is that the applications of Conversational Intelligence in business are near-endless. Aligning your Conversational Intelligence focus with key areas already outlined in your strategic plan (or digital transformation strategy) is where you gain the most value from this technology. The same goes for any data-generating activities.

Here are two areas of business improvement identified in a strategic plan and how Conversational Intelligence can help.

Increase productivity in sales revenue

Conversational Intelligence can sit in on sales with every call, every meeting, every ‘coffee catch up.’ From these conversations, it’s easy to identify the tactics, scripts, keywords and emotional indicators that help close sales with customers – and re-train employees to follow successful strategies.

Improve customer experience

If your goal is to increase customer lifetime value via loyalty born of great CX, you need insights on your customer interactions. Rather than ‘How’d we do’ emails, you can automatically analyse all customer interactions (for both customer and employee) to identify where improvements can be made. This could identify key pain points in business for customers and how to solve them, when employees need to be coached due to their manner, or which topics are taking up considerable amounts of time and how to rectify that.

 

3. From data insights to Intelligent Automation

“While there is investment in IA broadly, only 10 percent of respondents are integrating solutions across its various dimensions: automation, artificial intelligence and smart analytics. While initial fragmentation of efforts is not to be unexpected, organizations need to move quickly to understand how, when and where to integrate efforts across technologies to fully optimize their potential.” – Easing pressure points: The state of intelligent automation, KPMG

Automation should be deployed throughout the business for operational efficiencies – and Conversational Intelligence is a tool that can be used to identify where automation opportunities lie.

For instance:

  • Repeated keywords across a wide customer base can identify areas for switching over to web-based self-service to free up operator time
  • Action items mentioned in video meetings automatically create and assign tasks in project management systems
  • Competitor and product mentions can trigger on-the-fly competitive product analysis reports to display on screen for employees to speak to during the conversation

Creating intelligent automation throughout the business based on data requires significant thought and ongoing investment, but simply can’t be ignored – it’s time to action.

 

Let’s talk

Conversational Intelligence is available now with Dubber – a cloud-native, compliant, fully scalable solution available across all your usual communication channels. We go beyond basic voice recording and transcriptions to an enriched dataset of words, speakers, emotions, languages, and themes. With these meaning-enriched datasets, you can create and trigger real-time automated actions and workflows. Start planning your roadmap to doing more with your business data with Conversational Intelligence & Dubber.

Let’s chat.

World Heart Day @ Dubber

World Heart Day @ Dubber

September 29 is World Heart Day, a day dedicated to raising international awareness around the cause and prevention of Cardiovascular Diseases (CVD), a cause close to Dubber.

CVDs are the leading cause of death globally, resulting in an estimated 18.6 million deaths a year, and about 520 million people living with a CVD today. CVD affects the heart and blood vessels, resulting in coronary heart disease, cerebrovascular disease, rheumatic heart disease or other conditions.

As CVDs come in many forms, so do its causes – smoking, high blood pressure and high blood cholesterol are key risk factors for heart disease. Other medical conditions and lifestyle choices can also increase the risk of heart disease including; diabetes, overweight and obesity, unhealthy diet, excessive alcohol use, or air pollution.

 

Save a Child’s Heart & Dubber

For two years, Dubber has been a proud sponsor of Israeli humanitarian organisation, Save a Child’s Heart.

Save a Child’s Heart (SACH) is an international organisation that provides life-saving surgery to children suffering from heart disease from countries where access to pediatric care is limited or nonexistent. So, every day is World Heart Day with SACH.

For 25 years they’ve saved the lives of nearly 6000 children from 63 countries around the world. From these countries, 50% of the children come from the Palestinian Authority and Gaza, Iraq, and Morocco. More than 40% of the children are from Africa, and the remainder are from Asia, North and South America, and Eastern Europe.

 

SACH medical professionals

The ultimate goal for Save a Child’s Heart is to enable equal opportunity for life-saving surgery for children with CVD. One of SACH’s programs is taking on medical professionals from developing countries and providing them post-graduate training in all facets of pediatric cardiac care in order to provide sufficient treatment in their own communities.

SACH trained professional and Ethiopia’s first pediatric cardiac surgeon, Dr Yayu Mekonnen addressed Dubber in celebration of the organisation’s 25th anniversary.

Inspired by an experience that shaped his career, Dr Yayu shared an anecdote of why he became a pediatric cardiac surgeon and why he loves what he does.

“When you provide this procedure at the right time, you change the course of this child’s life forever. They will be normal kids and are able to do whatever they want in life now.” – Dr Yayu Mekonnen

Use heart to connect ❤️

As the world struggles to fight COVID-19, it’s put pressure on us to be cautious of our own health, as well as the safety of those around us. With this new wave of vigilance, World Heart Day’s theme is around Using a heart to connect. 

At Dubber we can vouch for a more mobile and modernising way of connecting with people, especially through digital platforms and telehealth. Use heart to connect is about harnessing our knowledge and influence in order to spread accurate information about heart health to our communities and loved ones.

https://www.instagram.com/p/CTxF3x7DQrg/

 

Some ways you can use heart to connect:

  • Share your story and commitment by sharing a poster online 
  • Take care of your body by eating healthily, not smoking, and exercising
  • Share support and look out for our vulnerable communities
  • Use technology to bridge gaps in our communities
  • Don’t forget to use the hashtag #UseHeart
  • Give the gift of hope by donating to Save a Child’s Heart organisation

All information published in this article is provided for general education and isn’t intended to replace expert medical advice from a registered healthcare professional. 

Dubber does not accept any liability for any error or injury incurred by any person as a result of using this information published.

Dubber acquires world class AI technology company Notiv

Dubber acquires world class AI technology company Notiv

Notiv brings AI-driven notetaking and action items to every call and meeting

Adds advanced technology capabilities in real-time transcription, artificial intelligence, and advanced natural language processing

Adds revenue generating service to existing and expanded Dubber customer base

Delivers product capabilities that enrich Dubber Foundation and broader service provider offering

Accelerates Dubber’s AI program and expands Dubber core offerings

Circa A$6.6m acquisition by way of cash and equity

 

Melbourne, Australia – 20 September 2021 — Dubber Corporation Limited (ASX: DUB) (Dubber) announces today that it has acquired Brisbane, Australia based technology group Notiv (https://www.notiv.com). Notiv is a developer of innovative cloud-native AI-based products that turn meetings into transcribed notes, summaries, signals, actions, and more.

 

Steve McGovern, CEO, Dubber:
“One of our fundamental beliefs is that artificial intelligence has a part to play as a standard feature of every call and conversation. Notiv is a significant step towards achieving this in that it has clear and defined use cases for everyone from individuals to the largest of enterprises. With Notiv, Dubber will now have the ability to automatically take notes and create action items on every call. We are confident that our telecommunications carrier and service provider partners will see enormous potential for revenue-generating value-added services for their customers at scale.

We welcome the Notiv team to Dubber along with the AI and data science expertise they bring. We see the teams combining to form the core of our Dubber AI Labs for developing future AI capabilities.

The integration of the Notiv business is accretive for both parties in that Dubber can expose the fantastic capability of the Notiv offering to a global customer base and the Notiv team can develop a continuous stream of revenue-generating services for Dubber’s addressable market.

Dubber’s overall strategy is to grow organic Annualised Recurring Revenue (ARR) while augmenting that growth with strategic acquisitions where possible. Acquisitions must either add accretive and synergistic revenue or provide substantial product and technology capability, which will drive organic ARR growth. The Notiv acquisition reflects that strategy perfectly, and the speed at which the parties have executed the transaction now enables the Company to continue to pursue other identified opportunities.”

Notiv will be available to Dubber Foundation Partners, select service and solution providers and sold alongside other Dubber solutions for businesses and Government.

 

Chris Raethke, Co-Founder & CEO, Notiv:
“The Notiv team is exceptionally proud of the technology we have developed. The ability to roll out Notiv globally with the world’s leading service providers is an unmissable opportunity. The chance to join the Dubber growth journey at this time and expand Dubber’s AI and NLP capabilities is exciting for all of us. We are confident that the combination of Dubber and Notiv will deliver incredible value to customers, businesses and our fellow shareholders alike.”

 

James Slaney, COO, Dubber:
“Dubber has over 150 global service provider network partners as well as all of the world’s primary unified communications solutions – and is the only true native, cloud-first service of its kind.

Our strategy has always been to use this footprint to deliver layers of value and drive associated revenues. Notiv suits this strategy perfectly and accelerates our existing AI program in three ways.

First, we gain an exciting and proven product built to answer a compelling use case – making meetings better by automatically enabling voice data to replace or improve note taking. We believe that the ability to create notes, highlights and action items in every video and phone call provides invaluable use cases for every demographic, from individuals to large enterprises, thereby expanding Dubber’s already large addressable market. Enhanced productivity can benefit everybody in all methods of communication. For example, a tradesperson on a mobile phone call could instantly capture customer requests and share the actions. Likewise, C-level executives could use Notiv to note and capture actions in a planning meeting.

Second, we believe that the ability to deliver this capability directly from the network will be a compelling proposition for both existing and new service provider partners. As well as the opportunity for service providers to drive new services, incremental revenue and differentiation, we believe that Notiv is an ideal product to increase the value of our industry-first Foundation Partner program.

Finally, Notiv will provide Dubber with a world-class team with deep expertise in AI and data science. Together we will accelerate our overall product roadmap and capabilities and advance our AI, digital signal processing and natural language processing technologies. Notiv furthers our leadership in capturing and transforming conversations between one person and another – and large groups of people in a meeting.

We are continuing to unlock the potential of AI on every end-point and enabling our service and solution providers to make the critical shift from selling connectivity to extracting the value in every conversation on their networks. They’ll now be able to do that with Dubber Notiv on the same hyper-secure, scalable and compliant infrastructure that Dubber has already made available to over 150 service providers globally – including all the world’s leading UC solutions.”

 

Key Transaction Terms:
Dubber has acquired Notiv through the purchase of all of the issued share capital of holding company Pinch Labs, Inc., a US corporation that wholly owns and operates the Brisbane-based operations and technology

Aggregate consideration of approximately A$6.6 million

A$5.15 million paid in cash at completion and the balance, representing 24.8% of the consideration, is to be satisfied by way of the issue of 386,277 Dubber fully paid ordinary shares at a deemed issued price of A$3.75. The shares will be issued within Dubber’s existing Listing Rule 7.1 issue capacity

Key management and employees are to stay with the business, including Chris Raethke, Co-Founder & CEO and Dr Iain McCowan, Co-Founder and CTO

The agreement also includes provisions customary for a transaction of this nature, including warranties and representations, confidentiality and non-competition/solicitation

 

Strategic Rationale
Accretive fundamentals. Proven application and technology with customers with strong product-market fit and alignment to the Dubber solution set

Enriches Dubber’s service and solution provider offering – and current product offerings. Accelerates Dubber’s technology roadmap both in terms of providing Dubber with access to AI technologies and also adding a critical and differentiated product

Furthers differentiation and value of Dubber Foundation Partner Program – and its more than 150 service and solution provider customers worldwide

Broadens Dubber’s conversational intelligence offerings

Dubber to accelerate the adoption of Notiv globally. Provides Notiv with critical sales and marketing resources to scale go-to-market capabilities

Strong synergies in product approach mean technologies can be easily unified into common platforms with the potential to create efficiencies over time

Key shareholder support. All key management shareholders retained in the business with incentives to continue strong performance

 

Financial Impact
Scrip and cash consideration up-front. No further amounts payable

No incremental investment in staff or technology required to achieve scaling

Strong potential to enhance future revenue (or stated revenue), typical of an early-stage technology venture

This ASX announcement has been approved for release to ASX by Steve McGovern, CEO & Managing Director.