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A Chatbot as Your Website’s Receptionist: 3 Concepts From Practice
There’s the dream of a chatbot functioning as an automated full-scale service desk: Answering questions even when asked in an atypical way using wrong terms, capable of recognizing the exact circumstances of a customer’s problem and forwarding solutions with the exact...
The 7 Biggest Mistakes of Knowledge Management and ECM
The 7 Biggest Mistakes of Knowledge Management and ECM Why Information Management? A Request for an Innovative Approach. Why have Knowledge Management (KM) or Enterprise Content Management (ECM) failed for decades? Why do they not bring any added value to the...
Production Monitoring 4.0 in the Paper Industry
Initial Situation: How many people are necessary to operate a paper machine optimally? Due to the high degree of automation, actual operation is possible with a very small production team. Over the last 10 years, some paper manufacturers have increased the production...
5 Basic Rules for a Good Meta Data Schema
Automation is today's hot topic. The never ending flood of information makes it impossible to maintain each file and each dataset individually – and never mind manually. Meta data are the key to the solution of this problem. They allow the grouping and batch...
avato customer Steinbeis wins SAP Quality Award
avato customer Steinbeis Papier GmbH wins SAP Quality Award 2019 in the category Innovation for Industrie 4.0 Project. Industrie 4.0, IoT, Big Data, AI - just catchwords or ingredients for successful digitalization in medium-sized businesses? The focus on relevant...
SAP Quality Award Gold in the category Innovation for Industrie 4.0 @ Steinbeis
In the middle of 2017 Steinbeis Papier GmbH (https://www.stp.de) chose avato consulting ag as a strategic partner for its digitization initiative under the title Industrie 4.0 @ Steinbeis Papier. In a short preparation phase the goals were defined, possible use cases...
XGBOOST: Differences between gbtree and gblinear
Background The XGBoost framework has become a very powerful and very popular tool in machine learning. This library contains a variety of algorithms, which usually come along with their own set of hyperparameters. This allows to combine many different tunes and...
Handicaps of easy-to-use machine learning
Nowadays machine learning is everywhere. The various types of models are applied to a wide variety of applications: They are used in classical predictive analysis, but also for image and speech recognition, in playing games like Jeopardy!, Go or World of Warcraft and...
(The Right) Information Makes Service Management Successful!
3 Components for Successful (Customer) Service Management Whether IT service desk or customer service, the challenges faced when trying to achieve high customer satisfaction are the same. If customer satisfaction drops, the costs of customer service typically increase...
The Problem in AI no one Talks About
With Artificial Intelligence, everything is possible today, isn’t it? We have Machine Learning and Neural Networks and all that stuff. Machines can help your customers online via chatbot (if they need help with the right things), categorize text by topic (sometimes)...
Study & Stay 2019
The Study & Stay in Würzburg has been an integral part of our trade fair planning for many years now. Last week it was time again. On 14.11.2019 we were able to exchange ideas with students and prospective graduates from various study courses. We had some...
avato Smart Data Method – Procedural Model for Smart Data Projects (Whitepaper)
Why Smart Data? Big Data, Advanced Analytics, Industry 4.0, Internet of Things, self-learning machines – all these topics offer plenty of substance for fascinating new ideas. These may be more efficient processes, new or optimised products and services or entire new...
Get to know us at the following university trade fairs
May 13, 2020
Konaktiva in Darmstadt, one of the largest student-organised company contact trade fairs in Germany.
May 14, 2020
Campus Careers in Aschaffenburg is the university’s own company and personnel contact trade fair for students in the Bayerischer Untermain region in Germany.
November 19, 2020
The Würzburg (Germany) study & stay trade fair is the ideal opportunity for students and companies to make contacts.
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