Artificial Intelligence

Announcing BPA Cognitive Search

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Great news for our clients! BPA Cognitive Search is announced to be released soon.

BPA Cognitive Search is an AI-driven tool for finding pertinent documents by asking natural questions to a chatbot. End users will love using it with Microsoft Teams on their preferred device, or in the BPA App interface.

AI chatbot to search for documents

Example of natural question asked and received answer in the AI chatbot.

The tool is intended to instantly retrieve compliance documents, technical files or other documents stored in BPA Apps. Documents similar to another document can be instantly listed, opened or shared with your colleagues. This will drastically boost productivity when working with documents!

Start using the chatbot directly in Teams and write some keywords about documents you’re looking for. Pertinent documents will be listed by decreasing matching score. Refine your search by finding similar documents to a specific document.

In the daily business, it’s great to be able to search and share documents while chatting. BPA Cognitive Search can be started from any Teams, channel, activity or chat. When selecting a listed document, a document card displays in the discussion flow, ready to be shared with your colleagues.

AI chatbot to search for documents

Sharing a document card with a colleague in Teams.

While on the move or on the shop floor, using the chatbot with your mobile device is the best way to quickly find relevant documents. Simply open the Teams mobile app and start typing a few characters to instantly get matching documents.

AI chatbot on mobile device

Get matching documents easily on your mobile device.

With BPA Apps, the AI chatbot can be displayed in the home page or any other page.

BPA Cognitive Search will be available as an optional extension to BPA modern apps. BPA will provide the chatbot and needed shared Azure services, ready to be used with your apps.

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Using AI for Searching Documents by Asking Natural Questions

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AI for Document Search

BPA is currently working on a project to augment human intelligence with AI tools to help end users searching for documents by asking natural questions and find similarities.

“Clients are using BPA apps to manage hundreds of compliance documents, procedures and work instructions. Artificial Intelligence will help end users to find relevant documents by asking questions in natural language”, said Dr. Boris Lutz, CEO at BPA Solutions.

For this project, we leverage existing Microsoft technologies used by our clients and aligned with BPA Apps on Office 365. The main goal is to avoid custom methods and coding.

When working with BPA Apps on Teams or SharePoint, end users can ask a question to a bot and refine search by clicking a category of documents. A list of matching documents will be displayed and users can rate results for the system to learn and improve over the time.

Later, the same technology will be applied to other modules in BPA Apps, like searching for similar nonconformities or events.

The solution architecture includes many Microsoft Azure services, like bot services, cognitive services for language understanding (LUIS), storage services and monitoring services. BPA will offer these AI services as optional power extensions to our apps.

BPA’s main objective with this project is to bring prebuilt AI tools ready to be used with BPA Apps to help clients improving the quality of their products and services.

Stay tuned, it comes soon…

Text Recognition AI Plugin Brings Unique OCR Capabilities to BPA Apps

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Disruptive way to scan a business card, read contact details and transfer data in BPA software, by using a mobile phone or a tablet.

Microsoft Office 365 brings new AI capabilities for text recognition and business card scanning. These new features can be easily integrated with BPA apps to solve typical business problems, like processing business cards, contracts, invoices or documents.

In this example, a user can take a business card photo with a smart phone, during an exhibition or while traveling to a client. The app will read the card details and parse text in the contact form, ready to be sent to BPA CRM. A picture of the business card will be appended to the contact details.

This fully configurable no-code scenario includes the following Office 365 technologies: PowerApps for the mobile app, BPA CRM on SharePoint as repository, and Flow for process automation.

This powerful OCR recognition AI model can be used for many other purposes, like processing contracts, invoices or any document to be stored in BPA apps while keeping context and alerting the right people.

Together with Office 365 technologies, we bring tools to improve traditional business processes.

Benefits are obvious, AI and text recognition simplifies administration processes, reduces manual work and saves cost.

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Object Detection AI Model Applied to Quality Management

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Disruptive way to detect a non-compliant product and register a nonconformity using BPA software and the object detection AI model provided by the Microsoft power platform with Office 365.

BPA is exploring new areas to continuously simplify and improve business processes.

This scenario presents a disruptive way to detect a non-compliant product by taking photos with your mobile device.

Microsoft Office 365 provides a no-code object detection AI builder included in their power platform (Power Apps and Flow). By using a smart phone, a user can take a product photo, e.g. while controlling products in the production line. The app will count the number of compliant and non-compliant products. In case a product is not compliant, a nonconformity can be registered in the BPA Quality software.

In this example, we have built a mobile app with Power Apps which contains the object detection AI model. The AI model was trained by taking photos and tagging compliant and non-compliant products. More than 30 photos have been taken to train the AI model. The object detection accuracy improves with the number of photos.

This powerful object detection AI model can be used for many other purposes, for example inventory or inspection management. Using Flow (Microsoft Office 365 automation platform), power users can build no-code workflows using output data from the object detection AI model. For example, a notification will be sent to the inventory manager if some products are missing.

Together with Office 365 technologies, we bring tools to improve traditional business processes.

Benefits are obvious, AI and object detection can help taking faster decisions, reducing costs and improving customer satisfaction.

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