Welcome to the electrifying March edition of foreSIGHTS 2024! This month, we’re buzzing with excitement to unveil some groundbreaking advancements at the forefront of data analytics. Buckle up, because you’re about to witness the future of making informed decisions!
What’s trending? Meet Devin, Your AI Software programmer!
Did you know that geniFLASH has many things in common with IPL?
Partner Enablement Program: Tech and Sales
geniFLASH’S Feature >> Stunning New UI/UX is Coming!
Upcoming Webinar >> Your journey to data driven excellence!
We hope you find this edition informative, and we look forward to connecting with you soon!
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Meet Devin, Your AI Software programmer!
Remember those nail-biting Terminator movies where AI became self-aware and almost wiped out humanity? (Shudders) Well, fear not! The future of AI is looking a lot brighter, thanks to Devin.
That’s right, Devin isn’t here to conquer us – it’s here to help us be way more productive. This AI software engineer is like your ultimate coding buddy, able to write code, fix bugs, and even learn and adapt on its own.
Imagine: no more late nights wrestling with a stubborn line of code. Devin can tackle those headaches while you focus on the bigger picture.
Think of Devin as your personal coding sidekick, ready to work tirelessly by your side or independently complete tasks you can review later. Pretty cool, right?
The world of work is changing, and Devin is here to usher in a new era of AI-powered productivity. So, buckle up and get ready to see what the future holds! Read more @ https://indianexpress.com/article/explained/explained-sci-tech/meet-devin-ai-first-autonomous-ai-software-engineer-9212537/
Did you know that geniFLASH has many things in common with IPL?
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Here are 5 things common between IPL and geniFLASH.
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geniFlash’s Stunning New UI/UX is Coming!
Thanks to valuable feedback, our design team has crafted a visually captivating yet highly functional interface. On April 30th, experience AI-driven insights like never before with polished aesthetics, streamlined workflows, and optimized features that will revolutionize how you interact with data.
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Upcoming Webinar >> Your journey to data driven excellence!
We’re excited to announce that our upcoming webinar on geniFLASH, the revolutionary AI-powered analytics platform, is being planned for next month!
In this webinar, you’ll learn how geniFLASH can transform your business intelligence by providing:
Personalized Insights: Get tailored analysis and recommendations based on your specific role and goals.
Conversational Interface: Ask questions and receive clear, actionable answers from your data.
Improved User Adoption: Stop struggling with static reports – geniFLASH makes data analysis easy and engaging.
Exact Date to be Confirmed Soon:
We’re finalizing the details and will share the exact date and registration link closer to the event. Stay tuned for further updates!
Let’s understand how a conversational AI can help connect the problems to the solutions effectively in real-time. Take an instance where there is a conversation between a customer care executive of a fashion store and a customer that is effectively solved with the help of a conversational AI.
The conversational AI uses sentiment analysis to understand the customers’ state of mind, makes recommendations to the executive for better solutions, and quick recommendations related to the offers of the brands the customer liked or has in their wishlist increases the overall satisfaction of the customer.
This is how conversational AI helps in solving customers’ issues in real-time. Many contact centers are already infusing AI into their operations and help desk tasks. Although AI is not going to eliminate the staff, it is going to aid a huge scale-up of the help desk services.
Are you a contact center organization looking for real-time & customized analytics solutions for your business?
You would have learned how Advanced Analytics aids the contact centers to enhance the customer experience thereby converting contact centers to revenue centers. Our Conversational AI product FLASH comes in handy providing meaningful insights in just a matter of seconds.
Conversational AI-led analytics is indeed the game-changer for contact centers was a 3 part blog. The part 1 concentrated on the problems faced by the contact centers which was followed by the solutions conversational AI could offer in part 2 and how the conversational AI solved the problems in real-time in part 3 of the blog.
Advanced Analytics assists Contact centers to hasten the decision making with real-time insights. It extends tremendous support for the Business Process Outsourcing Companies in improving their Key Performance Indicators thereby enhancing customer satisfaction.
In the competitive industry, building trust over a brand is inevitable. The companies are increasingly investing in service centers to improve the key determinants like customer acquisition, customer retention, and customer margin. The contact centers are continuously evolving at a fast pace to meet the customer’s demand anytime. They serve as a bridge between the brand and the customers. Establishing a strong customer base is vital for every business and the contact center does this job effectively.
Frontline staff at the war front:
The frontline staff is the first point of contact for the customers with the company. They are also responsible for retaining a business reputation. The expectations of the customers are tremendously increasing over time and the frontline staff needs to be well equipped to satisfy the customer’s needs. Also in the fast-paced environment, everyone expects things to get done fast.
The Frontline staff are upskilled on the product completely to deal with the most difficult customers. But due to high attrition in the service center sectors, the new staff are not well educated on the product leading to the frustration of the customers.
There is a pressing need in the industry to implement a software solution that behaves like more of a data assistant to these frontline employees. The conversational AI ensures that the customer receives a more personalized and quick response. When the frontline staff is faced with similar kinds of requests from the customers, the conversational AI connects to the data in the past and provides the relevant suggestions to the staff. The resolution time of the queries will greatly be improved which in turn provides positive customer feedback.
Major Concerns of a Contact Center:
High Attrition Rate:
High Attrition Rate is an alarming concern of the contact center industry that has to be addressed. Every customer expects instant resolution for their real-time queries. The front-line staff should be well equipped and trained with accurate solutions to avoid potential customer’s turn-off. Oftentimes, the new service staff is unaware of the past queries and how the organization resolved them previously. The attrition rate necessitates the contact center company to hire and train the new staff which imbibes huge costs.
First-call resolution (FCR):
First-call resolution (FCR) is widely regarded as an important facet for achieving customer satisfaction in the Contact Centre. However, as today’s customers tend to ring with increasingly complex queries, it isn’t always possible to provide an immediate answer. If callers end up having to speak to several agents regarding a single inquiry, the customer experience becomes inefficient and satisfaction levels plummet.
Repeated Calls:
A recent survey reveals that 20 to 30 percent of a Contact Centre’s call volume is callbacks from previous, unresolved issues. In another survey, it was found that 70% of UK customers speak to an average of two to five customer service representatives before resolving a single issue which has reflected the preference of consumers across the UK from Contact Centres to various other channels like email, chat, or use social media or mobile apps and a host of other sources to drop a line.
Lack of Information:
The customers contact the service centers for information. When the service agent is unequipped with the solution, they put the customers on hold. The customer gets aggravated and frustrated when they have to wait for long. The waiting time is the biggest turn-off for a customer seeking help on an issue.
Customer drop-out:
Many of the contact centers have been using Interactive Voice Recording Systems to reduce the number of calls reaching an actual agent. This helps reduce the cost of the customer care service of a company but also has its downsides. Some say the voice prompts are difficult to understand and give too much data in too short a time (Misrouted analysis). Also, most of the time, customers dislike talking to a machine and request to be transferred to an agent thereby increasing the customer drop out rate.
These problems faced by contact centers can be effectively resolved by Conversational AI-led analytics. Stay tuned to find out how Conversational AI could resolve the contact center’s problems in our 2nd edition of ‘Conversational AI-led analytics is indeed the game-changer for contact centers.’ If you are looking for a tool that will resolve all of these issues efficiently, we have an amazing tool “FLASH” available to you. Contact Team FLASH at info@genisights.com or visit the website https://flash.genisights.com/ to know more about its capabilities and benefits. You can also schedule a demo now with the Team FLASH to discuss the details of your requirements.
Learn how Advanced Analytics aids the contact centers to enhance the customer experience thereby converting contact centers to revenue centers. Our Conversational AI product FLASH comes handy providing meaningful insights in just a matter of seconds.
Conversational AI-led analytics is indeed the game-changer for contact centers will be a 3 part blog. The first part concentrating on the problems faced by the contact centers followed by the solutions conversational AI could offer in part 2 and how the conversational AI solves the problems in real-time in part 3 of the blog.
Organizations have lots of data, reports, and insightful dashboards but are they actionable? How easy for the organization to leverage insights from Dashboards?
Max is disappointed with the insights provided by Julie. Alex said he will talk to the Dashview team to build the reports quickly.
The Dashview needs 2 more days to build the reports.
Alex volunteers to fix the meeting with the FLASH team the next day.
Team FLASH demonstrated FLASH to Max and his team. Max was stunned to see that FLASH not only generated the insights quickly but the insights are real-time insights.
We feature Mr. Dorai Thodla in our monthly Feature corner, He’s Founder of Technology Strategies LLC and iMorph Innovation Center Pvt. Ltd. this month. He has co-founded 4 software companies – two in India and two in the USA. Mr. J. S. Sridharan, our Co-Founder, and Senior Vice President ask a few questions to Mr. Dorai Thodla. You may follow Dorai on Twitter (@dorait) and LinkedIn.
He helps organizations leverage emerging technologies for building skills and creating innovative products. His companies build Information Assistants, a collection of tools for gathering and analyzing information.
He considers the ability to do informal research and tracking technology trends as important skills for the future of work.
Sridharan – With reference to the informal research process, could you tell us more about which areas this would apply to?
Dorai – There are a few areas where quick informal research can help.
1. A product team trying to validate a set of ideas. They may need to know what already exists and whether they should build a product.
2. A startup with reasons similar to product groups, but may need additional information about the market size, how the market is growing, current players, and whether there is a viable business model.
3. Finding gaps and opportunities in emerging technology trends. Inferring latent needs from discussions and analyzing competitive market spaces.
Sridharan – Why do you think organizations would undertake informal research and at what level?
Dorai – It depends on the size of the organization. Small to medium organizations may use it at a tactical level. For example, a small product group may use it to do competitive analysis, opportunity analysis for product extensions, etc.
Sridharan – We know that we can leverage Twitter as a tool for any informal research. Can you share insights on how twitter hashtags will help organizations in this research?How can we leverage LinkedIn for this? What are some other tools we could use for doing this informal research?
Dorai – Hashtag’s usage is not uniform. Some of the most influential tweeters (like Paul Graham) do not use hashtags at all. An analysis of hashtags shows that they are used when you want to join conversations or when you are in a conference or other similar events.
Linkedin
Twitter is a broad platform serving a wide variety of people. You can see authors, journalists, news organizations, technology people from the small, medium, and large organizations. LinkedIn is different. It started serving the needs of HR and recruiters. For a while, now LinkedIn is broadening the base but the type and quality of conversations are very different. It is easier to find influencers and people from large organizations. The profiles on LinkedIn are much richer.
The major problem with LinkedIn is a highly restricted API. So gathering information using automated tools is a bigger challenge.
With respect to other tools, If you cannot afford to subscribe to expensive research resources from experts in the field (students and startups have this problem), there are many tools you can cobble together to do your own research. You can call this DIY Research or Informal research. These tools include:
– Search engines
– Blogs and syndicated feeds
– News sources (both raw and aggregated)
– Websites and Portals
– Social media tools like Twitter but also LinkedIn and to some extent Facebook
– Wikis including Wikipedia and its properties
– Trade and Research publications
– Data and Scholarly search engines
Sridharan – How can startups leverage social media for tracking technology trends?
Dorai – If you want to speak the language of your customers, you need to use the vocabulary of your market place. These include idioms, phrases, and memes in those places. For example, tl;dr (too long did not read) is a common term among software developers. Other terms include “code smells”, “tech debt” etc. You can gather tweets of developers, do a frequency analysis of the terms to understand the terms of the group.
The importance of understanding the vocabulary of users may be much fold. If you want to use content marketing, you may want to use that language in your content.
There are a few ways. The more open the social media, the better. That is why Search and Twitter are our primary tools of choice.
1. Google, Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter will provide you data about the size of a specific niche audience.
2. The search parts of Google, Twitter, and others will provide discovery tools. I prefer tools that provide good APIs. These tools make data-driven decisions easier. For example, on Twitter, I can type a search, find popular hashtags, lists, and mentions, and can mine them for more information. This is not so easy to do for example in LinkedIn (despite their having an API) and Quora. So people resort to using scrapers and RPA (robotic process
automation) tools.
3. Blog searches or Feed Searches
4. Job searches – for certain types of research jobs are a leading indicator
5. Conferences, meetups, and discussion forums are useful tools for identifying watch signals.
6. Funding patterns, especially Angel-funding are leading indicators. You can also track other rounds of funding and private equity to understand the market space.
7. Books and articles are mostly lagging indicators but they are good sources to track the popularity of certain technologies.
Sridharan – How can start-ups and organizations leverage this informal research for new product markets and finding new opportunities?
Dorai – There are several stages for a product startup. Let us look at the needs at each stage.
1. You come up with an idea for a product. You need to find out whether products similar to yours are there already and what are the pros and cons of each product (an analysis of alternative solutions). Having some competition validates that there are a problem and the need for a solution. But a lot depends on how established the competition is. At the end of this research, you identify a niche and some potential early adopters.
2. You build a prototype or a minimum viable product. You do this in stages. Once you have a proof-of-concept prototype or a functional, usable prototype, you need to validate that it solves the problem. You need research to identify these users, ways to reach them, and interact with them.
3. Once you have a few users using your product, you need to expand the number and also identify paying customers. You need research to go from 100s of users to thousands or tens of thousands of users.
4. Once you have sufficient users to feel comfortable with your validation, you need to price the product. If similar products exist, you need to research their pricing models. If there are no similar products but the market is being served by services, you need to research those pricing models.
As the number of users and types of users grows, you need more research to get to the next stage. Most of this research is not available in the market. Even if available, it may not be current.
Sridharan – Could you elaborate on some new research methodologies that can help startups?
Dorai – Startups have several free and paid resources for product discovery, content discovery, keyword discovery, and competitive analysis. Informal research strings together available tools to create your own Research Assistants. I see this as a multi-stage process.
– Info tools – tools to gather data from a variety of sources – Web, RSS feeds, Tweets, Posts, Discussion boards, Forums, and Blogs.
– Analyzers – Analyze information gathered via info tools – segment/cluster, discover topics, mine entities, derive the vocabulary of conversations, etc. The analyzers use Machine Learning, Deep Learning, Natural Language Processing, semantic tagging, and other emerging techniques.
Sridharan – With reference to businesses tracking technology trends, how do you think digital analytics help track the trends?
Dorai – Data gatherers will bring in a lot of data in various digital forms – text, images, speech (podcasts), videos. You need analytics for different levels of filtering. The first level simple analytics are early filters to separate signal from noise. Next level analytics provide good inputs for inference and prediction.
Sridharan – To understand customers and market size, which tools or platforms to look for?
Dorai – We can start with some of the available free tools. These include search engines, Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook. They help you understand the market sizes since they need to know it to guide you in advertising. For example, using Facebook or Google ad products you can understand the size of a reachable market.
Using product hunt, beta list, and other similar services you can identify similar products. But nothing beats search. You can come up with a list of key terms that describe your product and try searches and analyze the results. Google provides a search API that you can use to automate this process.
You can use services like angel list to locate startups. You can use search to locate directories, professional associations in your product or technology space.
Twitter is becoming a great resource for discovery. Twitter APIs allow you to automate searches. Using Twitter you can find companies, products, trends, research reports, influencers, and discussions. You can create lists to manage the vast amount of information, retrieve tweets and links, and analyze the results.
Sridharan – How does text analytics help organizations in the changing business landscape?
Dorai – The outcome of searches (web search, Twitter search, Blog Search, Product Search, etc.) is short documents.
You need to text analysis to mine useful information from documents. Let us take an example of a blog comparing several products. You can use topic and keyword extraction techniques to derive useful information. You can use entity extraction to identify companies, products, and events mentioned in the article.
How automation can help you to run your business BETTER?
“Automation” or “automatic control” is a technology by which a process or procedure is performed with minimal or no humane assistance. Automation covers applications ranging from an electric fuse to a self-driving car, but massive usage of automation can be seen in traditional manual systems like customer care, IT support, or other mundane/repetitive work.
Automation can handle analytics reporting, ticket handling, scoring leads, shooting mails, and publishing on social media channels.
For implementing automation in business it will require a standardization of business processes and a bit of human intervention for setting up the whole process. Business must smartly choose the area and tasks which can be automated. Once this automation set-up is done it can benefit the organization in the following ways:
Meet market demands: Automation gives you the power to meet market demands and agility to handle changes in changing market conditions. You don’t have to hire more employees to handle fluctuation in customer demand, order volume, manage inventory, process orders, and payments.
Increase marketing ROI: It helps you retain leads more efficiently by quickly responding to a query(email or chat), automate a mail for a new customer pitch based on customer behavior, follow -up with connections, transfer a contact form from business card to a CRM tool, etc
Social media posts: We can save a lot of time in digital marketing on social media, highlight your business by scheduling posts, manage multiple social media accounts and boost your feeds, posts, and blogs using social media automation. You can now attend to queries on your handles and respond to prospective customers with information without error.
What’s more! Never miss birthdays of your followers and social media friends, you can also send birthday messages to your contact lists.
Computer backups: Always stay safe with all your data backed-up. With automation, you can schedule computer backups automatically. This way you will never forget to backup and lose valuable data. You can also back up the types and volume of inquiry received over a period of time to study how the mood of customers changes in a specific season or festive season.
Error-free operation: The automation process eliminates mistakes. Sometimes these mistakes can be very expensive and can lead to false analytics and poor decision making. You get high precision in your operations.
40% of large businesses automate at least one business process, while 25% of small business owners report using automation. According to MARKETSANDMARKETS, the global digital process automation market is projected to grow from USD 6.77 billion in 2018 to USD 12.61 billion by 2023, at a CAGR of 13.3% from 2018 to 2023.
(source: MARKESTANDMAREKTS)
Automation is capable of going well beyond to enhance your customers’ experience by performing day by day repetitive undertakings. Automation can widely be utilized for meeting short-term profit demands. It can majorly help companies cut down human asset-related costs: low human mistake, comparatively less inefficient working hours, decreased training costs, negligible odds of hands-on wounds, and so on. But the advantages stretch out past improving financial wellbeing. According to Deloitte, “the adoption of automation in organizations is expected to increase to 72% in the next two years. And the organizations that have already adopted automation expected to significantly increase their investment in automation throughout the following 3 years. If this proceeds at its current level, RPA will have accomplished near-universal adoption within the next 5 years”.
There is more to applications of automation past performing the physical tasks. It’s equipped for handling big data both structured and unstructured data right from its ingestion to developing meaningful intelligent insights for actionable decision-making. Automation can upgrade profitability and improve work processes in all cases at organizations all things considered.
If you are a business owner or decision-maker looking to run business faster and better, automation is the answer, allowing repetitive tasks to be performed with ease. It increases marketing ROI by improving the lead generation process but also enhances customer support. Advanced AI systems are capable of merging the benefits of automation by gathering data and using it to streamline processes and ensure you don’t lose critical data by creating automated backups.
As an AI company, we have automated several processes and clearly reaping the benefits of informed decision making as a result of this process. Are you thinking about adding automation to your business? Want to know how automation can fuel your growth, write to us @ info@genisights.com
