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REDWOOD CITY, Calif., April 24, 2017 /PRNewswire/ -- Tact, the sales experience platform, today announced it will be presenting at the CX Sales General Session at Oracle's Modern Customer Experience 17 event on April 25 -27 in Las Vegas, Nevada at the Mandalay Bay Convention Center. Tact will preview the upcoming integration of its conversational AI assistant with Oracle Sales Cloud. In addition, Tact has achieved a Silver level membership within the Oracle PartnerNetwork (OPN).

Tact turns a salesperson's connected device into an AI-powered digital sales assistant that automates administrative tasks and interacts with their most essential tools -  phone, email, calendar, maps, CRM, LinkedIn, and more - to provide users with a frictionless selling experience. Tact uses AI to sync and contextualize customer data across multiple systems of record, presenting it to the user in natural language through an app, SMS or voice. This drives greater CRM adoption and sales productivity in the field, while delivering more accurate data and forecasts to managers. Customers include Fortune 500 organizations like GE, Kelly Services and The AES Corporation.

Attendees of Modern Customer Experience 17 will be the first to preview how Tact and Oracle will collaborate to transform the seller experience by:

• Attending the CX Sales General Session on Tuesday, April 25 from 10:00-11:30am in Oceanside D room at the Mandalay Bay Convention Center: designed around industry trends, future predictions and innovations. Siva Sundaresan, GVP Sales Application at Oracle will detail the latest sales strategies, ranging from predictive to adaptive intelligence, innovations and more. Chuck Ganapathi, founder and CEO of Tact, will share for the first time how Tact's conversational AI assistant will serve as the sales reps' main interface, unlocking the strength of Oracle Sales Cloud through natural conversation: touch, text and talk. 
• Tracking the developments of Tact for Oracle Sales Cloud within the OPN: by attaining a Silver level membership, Tact will accelerate its collaboration with Oracle to extend and enhance Oracle Sales Cloud with its conversational platform, Tact AI. Customers can easily access detailed information to learn more about Tact, including technical documentation, participation at upcoming events, and the upcoming General Availability date of Tact for Oracle Sales Cloud.

Supporting Quotes:

• "Modern Customer Experience helps Oracle customers cut through the noise to identify the latest technologies that will help accelerate their sales transformational efforts," said Siva Sundaresan, GVP, Oracle Sales Cloud. "What we admire about Tact is the company's ability to bring productivity, insights and stronger predictability to sales organizations through natural language and conversational AI. We're very pleased to introduce the Tact AI digital assistant to our enterprise customers."
• "Today there's a fundamental change in the way people interact with computers, moving from windows, screens and buttons to more natural interfaces like touch, voice and chat," said Chuck Ganapathi, founder and CEO of Tact. "Tact is focused on bringing this kind of thinking to the enterprise, specifically the lives of salespeople, so they can better utilize CRM and their tools in a more natural way. Integrating Tact with Oracle Sales Cloud is a tremendous opportunity and we're thrilled to work with them to transform the seller experience."

About Tact 
Led by former Salesforce and Siebel executive Chuck Ganapathi, Tact is on a mission to make enterprise software more human-friendly. Tact's device-native, conversational platform is used by Fortune 500 companies to transform the daily sales experience in the field and maximize the value of their CRM investment. Based in Redwood City, Calif., Tact is a privately-held company, backed by Accel Partners, Redpoint Ventures, Upfront Ventures and Microsoft. For more information, visit https://tact.ai

About Oracle PartnerNetwork 
Oracle PartnerNetwork (OPN) is Oracle's partner program that provides partners with a differentiated advantage to develop, sell and implement Oracle solutions. OPN offers resources to train and support specialized knowledge of Oracle's products and solutions and has evolved to recognize Oracle's growing product portfolio, partner base and business opportunity. Key to the latest enhancements to OPN is the ability for partners to be recognized and rewarded for their investment in Oracle Cloud. Partners engaging with Oracle will be able to differentiate their Oracle Cloud expertise and success with customers through the OPN Cloud program – an innovative program that complements existing OPN program levels with tiers of recognition and progressive benefits for partners working with Oracle Cloud. To find out more visit: http://www.oracle.com/partners.

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