Google Assistant,
Amazon Alexa & Apple Siri have all become house hold names with built-in Artificial
Intelligence and huge potential on the home automation segment. These seemingly
elegant devices today were wild ideas appearing only in sci-fi movies few years
back. Remember the charming C-3PO and his wise companion R2-D2 from Star Wars trotting
around the universe, interpreting and even mimicking human conversation to
provide assistance - Are we there yet? I'd like to think we almost are with new
features and capabilities being added every day to automate through simulated
conversation.
Imagine the same
concept being extended to Enterprises through GENIE, an intelligent BI
Assistant (just like the genie of Aladdin who works wonders on the command of
his master). Wouldn't it be wonderful if you, the Director of Sales (lets dream
big :)),
had no need to login to the BI system and run your reports (on laptop,
Smartphone or tablet). Instead while you are pouring that hot cup of coffee, BI
GENIE coupled with AI & Voice systems took care of all of this on your
behalf.
Hello GENIE! What was yesterday's total sales?
GENIE responds by providing yesterday's total sales figure
OK GENIE! Give me the variance between the Forecast and actuals Sales realized?
GENIE responds with the details and provides the details of regions/categories where the variance is beyond the threshold
OK GENIE! Send alert with detailed report to the Zonal Managers where the variance is >25%.
GENIE sends the alert and provides confirmation
An intelligent Assistant
like GENIE will provide simplicity in accessing BI reports, especially in a
fast-paced world today where we are always looking for answers as quickly as
possible. Gone are the days of having to wait for the 8 AM scheduled reports. With data
being available at real-time/near real-time wouldn't it be fascinating to have the
means to interpret this data as soon as it is available and conveniently as
well through GENIE?
These are some tit-bits on how BI GENIE can be embedded in our daily life to keep us at ease and work as a huge effort and time saver for seemingly mundane tasks. This saved time and effort could be further channeled into far more productive activities.
Of
course building these systems are not without challenges especially when it
comes to Security and integrating this with Voice recognition systems and
making GENIE more context aware by using Natural Language Processing. But
nevertheless this is an effort worth taking as the world is gradually leaning
towards "UI less" systems or "Touch less" systems or "Conversational" systems.
Welcome to the future of
BI! Stay tuned for more updates and progress on GENIE!
Let me know what your thoughts are and provide your valuable feedback/suggestions/comments