What do independent software vendors gain from AI?

How software vendors can delight their customers with AI Software has the character of a perpetual construction site. The environments in which software is used are constantly changing, so it must be adapted to developments. Aspects of protection and security play a significant role, as does functionality. Requirements come from different directions: on the one […]
How AI can change the economy

There is probably no question that AI will have a very significant impact on business and society. According to a survey of around 600 companies in Germany conducted by the ITC association Bitkom, this is set to happen faster than expected: 15 percent of respondents already see an impact; 79 percent expect an impact in […]
Improvement: Digital Archiving with AI

Digital archiving has become a preferred method of document storage in companies and organizations. This practice involves archiving frequently accessed documents, as well as important contractual and other business-related documents that need to be stored due to legal regulations and may need to be presented if necessary. Advantages of digital archiving: The shift towards digital […]
How AI affects resource planning in companies
ERP solutions are central applications in the company that link all crucial business processes in a unified IT system. This enables the planning of resource utilization such as personnel, financial resources, inventory, plant utilization, etc., and the management of processes such as the processing of offers, orders, purchases, invoices, and production. Furthermore, additional functions can […]
China, EU, USA: Who stands where in artificial intelligence and why?

In one of the previous blog posts, we mentioned that according to the Bitkom survey on the status of AI in companies from the summer of 2022, Germany has fallen behind the USA, China and Japan in the view of the respondents and is unlikely to catch up in the coming years. Respondents see the […]
What is holding back AI development

Artificial intelligence is considered a key technology of the 21st century with enormous potential for productivity growth and economic growth. The German government has recognized the importance of AI, presented an AI strategy for Germany in 2018 and updated it in 2020 with the aim of “strengthening Germany as a location for research, development and […]
AI in the EU: Artificial Intelligence Regulation

Like other technologies, the use of Artificial Intelligence has two sides: It can be used to support and help people, for example with precise medical diagnostics, but also to manipulate or discriminate against individuals or social groups. The development and use of AI thus not only concern aspects such as productivity or the quality of […]
Letting the machine learn: Translating with Deep Learning

In one of our previous blogposts, we had briefly touched on how artificial intelligence learns, mentioning Deep Learning. As a reminder, Deep Learning learns and makes decisions using something called a neural network. Neural networks are a very crude replica of the human brain and the way human thinking works. The nodes of the network […]
TEXT RECOGNITION: WHAT IS THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN OCR AND ICR?

Digitization in the corporate back office starts with text recognition. In many companies, invoices, delivery bills, applications and other documents come into the company in paper form. In order for the information from these receipts and documents to be used in data processing, it must be manually captured and entered into the system. Text recognition […]
Intelligent Document Processing: The communications challenges and how companies can solve them

For new implemented technologies in companies, the prerequisites must first be created. On the one hand, these are technical prerequisites; on the other hand, it is a matter of preparing the people in the company and, if necessary, other potentially affected parties in the environment for the use of the new solution and upcoming changes. This […]