SAP & Beyond: Inside IT

Hi and welcome to SAP & Beyond: Inside IT, the first for this month.

Its exciting to see how technology is evolving so rapidly, and Im sure youll agree that understanding how AI can improve our processes and customer experience is essential. More often we are experiencing moments where technology’s ability to read our minds has been very convenient.

So, lets take a look at some areas where AI is having a great impact already.

AI in E-commerce: Actually, e-commerce is evolving fast, and AI is too, but how is your business leveraging artificial intelligence (AI) to stay ahead?

• AI acts like an intuitive assistant in ecommerce: AI learns from what customers do online to create a shopping experience that is exactly what they want and to recommend the right products.
• 24/7 customer support and time-saving automation: AI chatbots can do more than just answer simple questions - they can conduct rich, high-level conversations and provide personalized shopping experiences. They can answer product-related questions, manage orders, and suggest products based on what the customer has already bought.

Tip: Start with the deployment of a chatbot that can handle FAQs and basic troubleshooting. As your chatbot gets trained by customer interactions, you can extend its capability to handle product recommendations and personalized shopping support. 

• Personalized Product Recommendations: With AI-driven analysis of customer behavior and preferences, businesses can provide hyper-personalized product recommendations and actionable insights on your ecommerce operations, strategy, sales, and marketing.

✅ Start with a recommendation engine for a specific product category and track how it affects customer engagement and sales. Then roll it out to other product categories.

• Improved Search Functionality: AI-driven search functionality, including predictive search and natural language processing, can provide customers with more accurate and faster results, even if they themselves do not know what they are looking for.

✅Tip: Enhance your search box to provide "suggested searches" and autocomplete features. Implement AI models that accept natural language inputs, so customers can type in searches like "blue dress in the summer" and get related answers in an instant.

✅Pro Tip from Experience: In e-commerce, it’s crucial to start small and test. Integrating AI into your site’s chat system or search features doesn’t require a complete overhaul. Start by adding one feature, track the impact on customer satisfaction, and scale from there.

Product Recommendations and Lifecycle Management: Consider when adding AI to these categories the "smart questions" of what data they would require and the potential customer satisfaction and retention impact.

AI in Healthcare: Transforming Diagnosis and Alleviating the Shortage of Specialists

For every patient, time is crucial.

The growing demand for health care services coupled with the shortage of experts has set the stage for AI to become pivotal in patient diagnosis and treatment.

 

• AI in Radiology: Applications of AI can assist in the reviewing of medical images and the detection of abnormalities such as tumors, fractures, and other diseases. These allow doctors to focus on more complex cases and reduce diagnostic time and errors.

 

✅Suggestion: Start with medical imaging, and you can reduce specialists workload through quicker, more accurate diagnoses. Spread AI application to other areas like patient histories and treatment planning incrementally.

 

• AI in Diagnosis: AI software is being increasingly used to assist doctors with diagnosing diseases by analyzing medical information and offering evidence-based recommendations.

 

✅ Recommendation: Start small by adopting AI in specific diagnostic areas where it has already proven to succeed, such as dermatology (skin cancer diagnoses) or cardiology (prediction of heart diseases). Once they become more reliable and accurate, you can roll them out across other specialties.

 

• Can AI help to Bridge the Specialist Gap?: AI is a useful tool in the fight against the shortage of specialists, especially in areas like rural medicine or very technical specialties. Using AI equipment for routine diagnostic tests, you can leave specialists available for more critical cases.

 

✅Experience Tip: When youre in the process of bringing AI on board in the healthcare industry, its completely critical to involve medical professionals from the outset. Their intervention will ensure the AI solutions are being implemented correctly and in an ethical way.

Best,

Borislav Minkov

CEO, Novarto

(Your Digital Transformation Partner)