Shortly before the announcement of the collaboration between IBM and Apple, Discussed partnership with Hewlett-Packard for creating a corporate version of the personal assistant Siri, says Cybersecurity. And will not appear product was known under the informal name Siri Enterprise.
Apple, reportedly held talks with HP on the creation of Siri-like product that employees of companies could use for voice search corporate data, such as financial reports, inventory data products and tn. Parallel to this, HP conducted similar negotiations with Google for the use of voice technology Google Now.
In both cases, it was assumed that the employees will use the final Android-based device to use voice assistants and corporate data. As planned by HP with voice assistants work with corporate data should be as simple as working with traditional mobile applications, such as applications of weather, traffic information.
HP originally planned to use the application Google Now, however, the problem was that it does not support integration with third-party applications, and is fully focused on working with the search engine company. The publication notes that after talks with HP, Google thought about creating a local version of the technology Google Now.
According to experts, Apple now completely switched to working with IBM, and HP has the opportunity to return to work with Google.