Simen Aakhus and Arayan Naqid took to the main stage at AIM North 2019 and gave a great presentation fon augmenting the work force with AI to support triple-win for your customers, employees and shareholders
Avanade is a joint venture
We help cients realize results
One of our core offerings is Intelligent Automation
… where we provide business value
By improving business processes and …with the use of
Our implementation efforts
The most important work we do is to evaluate
As we will see through
…when considering a value lead approach
There is a lot of talk around AI
To start with, we have Weak or Narrow AI
Then we have Strong or General AI
It is heavily debated when, if ever,
When discussing AI, we are often
… systems with the ability
Then there is a subset
It is for this subset of AI
This breakthrough was enabled
Over the following years
Now, Weak AI service have emerged, which are
… and we typically … APIs
They will have some
Compared to custom AI …minimal effort is required
So for instance,
Speech, Language Understanding, Vision, Decisions and Search
And the ability
With that background..
The client:
This company provides
Challenge:
They receive loads of semi-structured
All documents are scanned
The employee experience
So the business challenge was to
We partnered up with … deliver Blue Prism,
This is a platform that allows for
… by integrating applications through
So RPA allows you to very cost-effectively
In order, to handle scanned documents
Because these documents
Results:
Within the first six weeks
Within a year
Having said that, the solution operates
This is not a story of replacement,
You are probably thinking, that this
But, we came to the conclusion
… simply because it requires less effort
The client achieved great benefits
… which demonstrates why
In the next example of ours,
If we go back to the overview, we are now
However, we suggest to stop
… and start thinking of it as supporting the work
Before implementation
Put your people first, and use
… and that is what we call - AI augmented workforce
Automation potential is high
The technology of Weak AI is easily available … to get started with AI
But, you have to focus on Business Case