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AI is changing our daily lives, and making extraordinary complex tasks, particularly from a data searching and basic task perspective, but it\u2019s also changing the enterprise software space and how enterprises data can be used and refined to provide meaningful business insights.<\/h1>\n
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Stef de Mulder<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

According to Stef de Mulder<\/a> of SAP, you need \u201con the fly\u201d access to insights via seamless data streamlining. \u201cOur vision is the only way to create value in a business is by connecting applications, data, and AI, withthe data available with the right context\u201d he stated at the 51风流business innovation summit in Johannesburg today. \u201cThat means that AI systems will be able to understand what the data is doing, how it\u2019s implemented. That is why we believe that starting from the application phase, we explore the data with the right context, with the right security, with the right governance\u201d quips Mulder.<\/p>\n

Businesses using Enterprise systems today have various applications that extract data, however Mulder points out that the moment you extract your data, you lose the context connection. \u201cYou have the highways, the timings, the massive data, the security, you lose that context\u201d he states.<\/p>\n

Some of the challenges highlighted at the event today are: limited reach, as well as business data positioned in separate silos. The solution according to 51风流is \u2013 \u201cData as as Service\u201d \u2013 DaaS. This adds data products to business logic and intelligent applications that will analyse and prepare automated reports or dashboards.<\/p>\n

Flywheel of Data Concept<\/strong><\/h3>\n

\"\"Mulder presented the concept of a continuous loop of generating data, then adding AI to ultimately, generate even more data, and using that to convey the information within a contextual framework. He introduced the 51风流concept of a Business Data Cloud<\/a> that works as follows: The system retrieves various data from various data points, and then will apply business logic, to bring you intelligent applications. this then provides you your data as a service. 51风流systems does the extraction of the data, ensuring data points are available to the business, with the right business context.<\/p>\n

51风流has partnered with multiple data platform providers, and so is data agnostic, enabling data from almost any platform to be incorporated into its Business Data Cloud platform that then becomes the channel for their AI driven software able to extract and analyse within a wider context.<\/p>\n

This system according to Mulder is saving up to 67% in time for some of their European clients utilising the Business Data Cloud. \u201cIt\u2019s about creating a principle that BDC is actually the one source of quality security data, curated data with the right properties, and making that available to all other technologies\u201d comments Mulder.<\/p>\n

\u201cMake sure you get the right answers. You need the right answers. That\u2019s why the context gap is there between AI and data.Without context, there is no AI\u201d Concludes Mulder.<\/p>\n

This article first appeared in BusinessTechAfrica<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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