Enterprise Chatbot : SAP integration with API.AI

deepanigi (25)in #chatbot • 7 years ago (edited)

The Real potential use of Chat bot within enterprise is huge .By Leveraging the power of conversations and AI we can let users access the SAP enterprise service through messaging and bots.With the huge volume of data driven process in SAP when combined with AI Chat bots the process becomes more seamless and easy to drive.

API.AI is a natural language understanding platform that makes it easy for developers (and non-developers) to design and integrate intelligent and sophisticated conversational user interfaces into mobile apps, web applications, devices, and bots.

SAP HANA Cloud Platform is an open platform-as-a-service providing unique in-memory database and business application services.

Deployment Options

The SAP enterprise chat bot solutions can be implemented on Hana cloud platform.Chat bot when deployed along with IoT platform could make bigger impact to make the process more efficient.Interesting use cases can be developed combining all together.

Factors to consider

Authentication with SAP system
User role based
Machine learning
Scope

Chat bots for SAP can be packaged for each industry specific business use case.User can activate the required voice or chat package and start communicating.This feature could further ease the process for users to handle sap process in natural communication way. Combination of SAP + Chat bots + IoT and machine learning will create a wider perspective in handling the business applications to make it effective.

Example

In my sample example I have developed an chatbot using google assistant which triggers the SAP HR leave approval process.I have deployed it using SAP on premise gateway service but it can be deployed over HANA cloud as well.