SAP Conversational AI for SME ERP

Part 1: SAP Conversational AI Intro & Enablement

“25% of digital workers will use virtual employee assistants daily by 2021.” [Gartner]

 

Are you one of them yet?

In this blog post series we will get started with SAP Conversational AI for SME – also in a practical way! Self-enablement resources are attached for each topic and a short and easy tutorial will show you how to set up your own chatbot and connect it to Business ByDesign and more.

What is SAP Conversational AI?

“SAP Conversational AI is a collection of natural language processing services. As the conversational AI layer of SAP Business Technology Platform, it enables users to build and monitor intelligent chatbots in one interface to automate tasks and workflows.” [SAP]

SAP Conversational AI is the next wave of customer and employee experience. It is mimicking a conversation with real people. Conversing in normal language with a chatbot can help you find the right webpage or user interface, get answers to FAQ or get help with low-value tasks.

The two groups of people benefitting from SAP Conversational AI are employees and customers. It can save valuable employee time by taking over repetitive, low-value tasks. The employee can focus on more interesting and value-creating tasks. A chatbot is immediately available for the customer, 24/7, and can therefore provide an improved experience.

Why for SME?

Especially SMEs have to make the most out of their resources as they are also competing with larger players. SAP Conversational AI can help SMEs free up some of their resources while still being available for their customers 24/7. SAP Conversational AI additionally follows a no-code/ low-code approach that makes developing a chatbot easy and feasible without spending valuable development capacity.

Can I test the SAP Conversational AI myself?

Yes, and please do so! You can get a free trial at https://cai.tools.sap/ If you have a SAP ID, you can just login, if you do not, you can sign up. This trial version needed if you want to follow the tutorial in the following blog posts. For a quick start on how to create an account and your first bot, check out this intro tutorial.

Self-enablement resources

• openSAP: “How to Build Chatbots with SAP Conversational AI” https://open.sap.com/courses/cai1
  This is the most recommended resource! A great course to get started, containing background information and tutorials on how to build a chatbot in more detail.
• SAP Conversational AI product overview: https://www.sap.com/products/conversational-ai.html
• SAP Conversational AI platform: https://cai.tools.sap/
• SAP Conversational AI help: https://help.sap.com/viewer/product/SAP_CONVERSATIONAL_AI?task=discover_task
• SAP developers: https://developers.sap.com/topics/conversational-ai.html
  Here you can find tutorials and more to get started with SAP Conversational AI and go beyond. A great intro tutorial on how to create an account and build your first chatbot can be found here.

Summary & Next blog post

In part 1 of this series, we introduced SAP Conversational AI for SME and the goal of this series: Learning how to build a chatbot with SAP Conversational AI and connect it with SAP Business ByDesign.

In the next session, we will start to build our own example chatbot that we will connect to SAP Business ByDesign ERP in an upcoming session.

Blog post series: SAP Conversational AI for SME ERP

Part 1: SAP Conversational AI Intro & Enablement [this blog post]

Part 2: Tutorial: Building our example chatbot [available soon]

Part 3: SAP Business ByDesign Intro, Enablement & How to connect with SAP Conversational AI [available soon]

Part 4: Tutorial: Connecting SAP Business ByDesign to our chatbot [available soon]