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Intelligent Products: Making Positive Change for Payments

By Slalom Build

The dramatic acceleration of the electronic payment industry has generated a ton of data. We’re talking about massive amounts of transactional and behavioral information collected across every touchpoint—search, social media posts, conversations with customer service or support agents, and the checkout process itself, to name but a few areas.

While companies have been successful in collecting data, improper setup of their data infrastructure is holding many back from obtaining actionable insights. In addition, despite the increased volume of rich data points, the payments space hasn’t fully reaped its potential. Tedious processes are still inherent in activities such as extending credit to customers, and numerous instances of compliance violations and fraud claims remain.

Let’s look at what is standing in the way of progress and explore how Intelligent Products can benefit payments.

The opportunities for intelligent processing

With an estimated $8.49 trillion total transaction value worldwide for 2022, it’s clear that there’s a considerable volume of information associated with digital payments at this scale. (1) This ever-growing amount of data is far more than humans could ever parse manually.

Artificial intelligence (AI) is better equipped to identify patterns and make predictions at a rate that keeps pace with the volume of data that’s become available. By automating manual processes, employees can focus on solving more challenging and personally rewarding problems. The operational process becomes smoother, and companies are better able to decrease the financial risk associated with human error. AI has been proven to protect data quality, ensure greater compliance, save money, enhance customer experience, and advance efficiency.

Before getting too excited, it’s important to remember that the goal is not to automate the workforce and remove people from it entirely.

Humans & Machines

Humans vs. machines? No. Humans and machines.

When AI supercomputer Deep Blue beat world chess great Gary Kasparov back in 1997, many feared this was the beginning of the end of human dominion over intelligence—or at least board games!

After the match, Deep Blue team chief Chung-Jen Tan said, “This is not about man versus machine. This is really about how we humans use technology to solve difficult problems.” Since then, we’ve radically expanded our understanding and use of AI and machine learning (ML) and found ways to use machines to complement our skills across a wide variety of industries and use cases.

Adoption of AI has been growing steadily and is at 35%, a four-point increase over 2021. Forty-four percent of companies are embedding enhanced intelligence into their current processes and applications. (2) AI has advanced so rapidly that a new generation of innovation has emerged. Intelligent products.

Intelligent products meet increasing demands

Intelligent products are the culmination of technology, intelligent operations, and experience. These dynamic products gather their own data, then analyze and transform it into knowledge that is used to continuously optimize and improve over time. Check out this article for a comprehensive look at intelligent products.

There is no better way to transform outdated payment processes and advance digital transformation than to leverage the power of intelligent products. Intelligent products are adaptive, personalized, and constantly learning. When used for payments, they help carry out time-consuming processes at scale faster, more efficiently, and with less bias than humans.

Several areas where intelligent products are making an impact within payments include:

ML image-based classification extends the reach of cancer screening

Cervical cancer diagnosed at an early stage has a very encouraging five-year relative survival rate of 92%. A large medical technology company is dedicated to improving screening quality and access to save the lives of more people with cervixes.

The client teamed up with Slalom Build to combine the personalization of human cytologists with the powerful scale of intelligent automation. The ML algorithm does the initial analysis, autonomously identifying cancerous or pre-cancerous cells in patient samples. Cytologists then scrutinize the areas that have been flagged in red as potentially cancerous.

This intelligent product helps deliver the fastest, most accurate scan assessment to the greatest number of patients. Because each one deserves the best chance at beating cancer.

In a field where individual experience and services play such a significant role in outcomes, we can rehumanize life sciences by leveraging the power, speed, and scale of intelligent products.

Making personalization accessible to the masses is just one of the paradoxes that intelligent products can resolve. Their power is in taking concepts that were at odds with one another—such as speed and accuracy, or automation and compassion—and suddenly making them feasible together.

Intelligent products point the way toward how to do what seems impossible. Download our whitepaper today to learn more, so we can help you pursue your organization’s vision for patient health.

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