Intelligent CIO Middle East Issue 49 | Page 76

t cht lk Can you tell us what Knowledge Process Optimisation is? Knowledge Process Optimisation (KPO) is essentially how I describe what we do. It’s about taking what typically would be very laborious, very costly manual processes and automating those processes. So KPO works internally with organisations to operate more efficiently and helps customer facing services become much more efficient, easier to access and easier to use. So, what you're doing is enabling companies to manage unstructured data? That's a very key point because there are a lot of solutions out there that can process data. We're probably the only company, because of our underlying AI technology, that works very well on unstructured information. That's real high value to organisations because that typically is the 76 INTELLIGENTCIO “ WE UNDERSTAND THE MEANING OF THAT DATA AND MAKE SENSE OF IT. type of information which takes a very, very long time to process. For example, we've done some projects for financial organisations where, because of the manual interaction they have and processing around unstructured information, they could potentially take 25 to 30 days to process a corporate loan application. Because we analyse the unstructured data in a very intelligent way, we understand the meaning of that data and make sense of it. So, we can reduce the processing time down from 25 to 30 days to three or four days. That's a significant cost saving for the organisation, because it may cost them, $40 to $50 to process an application. We can bring that cost down into single digit value, which is obviously highly cost-efficient for them. The flip side of that is that they can then offer faster onboarding processes to their customers, which gives them a competitive advantage. How long has the company been operating in the region? We've been in the region for about 12 months. We've had delegations come over from Singapore to meet with local government agencies, and that's been sponsored through Enterprise Singapore. Post this, a strategic decision was made back in January, to set up operations here within the UAE. I joined at the beginning of June. www.intelligentcio.com