SAP CAI - Adding Intelligence to Enterprise
October 14, 2019
SAP CAI - Adding Intelligence to Enterprise
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Overall Satisfaction with SAP Conversational AI
We use SAP Conversational AI as an intelligent assistant for our support process and new request handling. We are using it for our customers and are automating their L1 support process (e.g SAP user password reset, user creation, creating a ticket in correct component based on issue and subject).
The bot is hosted in Skype and it is pretty good in terms of handling requests from the end-user. The process used to be complex. End-users used to create a ticket for each invidual request and then it used to take time for processing all these. With SAP Conversational AI, it's much much simpler, no longer takes as long, doesn't create a large load on resources, and it is saving time and resources at the same time.
The bot is hosted in Skype and it is pretty good in terms of handling requests from the end-user. The process used to be complex. End-users used to create a ticket for each invidual request and then it used to take time for processing all these. With SAP Conversational AI, it's much much simpler, no longer takes as long, doesn't create a large load on resources, and it is saving time and resources at the same time.
- Building a bot is very easy because it comes with a great UI. Non-AI and ML developers can develop a chatbot with it. Not too much coding required. You need to know either node.js or Python to build webhook only.
- Recent features like factbot, generating bot from odata, and SSO for S/4HANA make it more unique and enterprise-grade which is very rare to see in other chatbot platforms.
- There are many organizations who don't want to host any chatbots in public-facing social media for security reasons. SAP CAI gives the freedom of choice to host in their own client application.
- Currently what it is missing is language support in all the languages. There are many places where people don't speak English. Training bots in different languages like Portuguese, Chinese, etc. is pretty difficult as most of the advanced functionality of NLP are only available for English, Dutch, or French in SAP CAI.
- Except for the SSO based web client feature, if someone wants to host their chatbot in another social channel like Telegram or Facebook Messenger, they have to take care of user authentication themselves as there is no embedded security framework for handling authentication.
- Currently SAP CAI has some standard channels but should offer more, like Google Assistant and WhatsApp.
- Negative impact designed on how a developer designing the bot. If during implementation security is not taken seriously, then it's a huge risk (e.g information leaked, user account compromised). As of now, I don't see any negative impact unless someone makes a mistake during implementation.
- It had lots of positive impact on reducing cost and time on Level 1 support which is really commendable!
- Intelligent enterprise means the system is helping an organization in order to make more business and reduce unnecessery costs.
Our scenario was pretty clear. We looked for an enterprise chatbot platform that could support SAP ERP like S/4HANA. Recent features make going with SAP CAI the clear choice for someone who wants to build bots around S/4HANA.
Do you think SAP Conversational AI (discontinued) delivers good value for the price?
Yes
Are you happy with SAP Conversational AI (discontinued)'s feature set?
Yes
Did SAP Conversational AI (discontinued) live up to sales and marketing promises?
Yes
Did implementation of SAP Conversational AI (discontinued) go as expected?
Yes
Would you buy SAP Conversational AI (discontinued) again?
Yes