{"id":9404,"date":"2020-03-04T20:00:05","date_gmt":"2020-03-04T19:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.consolvis.de\/blog\/sap-conversational-ai-the-chatbot-platform-at-a-glance\/"},"modified":"2021-05-27T01:01:55","modified_gmt":"2021-05-26T23:01:55","slug":"sap-conversational-ai-the-chatbot-platform-at-a-glance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.consolvis.de\/en\/blog\/sap-conversational-ai-the-chatbot-platform-at-a-glance\/","title":{"rendered":"SAP Conversational AI – The Chatbot Platform at a Glance"},"content":{"rendered":"[vc_row type=”full_width_background” full_screen_row_position=”middle” column_margin=”default” scene_position=”center” text_color=”dark” text_align=”left” bottom_padding=”2.5%” overlay_strength=”0.3″ shape_divider_position=”bottom” bg_image_animation=”none” shape_type=””][vc_column column_padding=”no-extra-padding” column_padding_position=”all” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_link_target=”_self” column_shadow=”none” column_border_radius=”none” width=”1\/1″ tablet_width_inherit=”default” tablet_text_alignment=”default” phone_text_alignment=”default” overlay_strength=”0.3″ column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid” bg_image_animation=”none”][vc_row_inner equal_height=”yes” content_placement=”middle” column_margin=”default” text_align=”left”][vc_column_inner column_padding=”no-extra-padding” column_padding_position=”all” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_shadow=”none” column_border_radius=”none” column_link_target=”_self” width=”1\/2″ tablet_width_inherit=”default” overlay_strength=”0.3″ column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid” bg_image_animation=”none”][vc_column_text css_animation=”bottom-to-top” css=”.vc_custom_1583509615147{margin-top: 15px !important;}” max_width=”500″]\n

You’re smart to be interested in SAP Conversational AI. The world turns to conversation. This change affects your two most important target groups – your customers and your employees – and you need to act.<\/p>\n

By 2020<\/a>, robots will handle over85%<\/a> of interactions between customers and businesses, and67%<\/a> of people expect to send more messages to businesses in the next two years. Last year,67%<\/a> of consumers worldwide used a conversational interface for customer support.<\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css_animation=”bottom-to-top” css=”.vc_custom_1583351346747{margin-top: 15px !important;}” max_width=”500″]\n

The goal of this post is to give you a bird’s eye view of SAP’s artificial intelligence-powered Conversational AI platform. This way you can decide if the topic is relevant to you and, if so, dive deeper into the details.<\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner column_padding=”no-extra-padding” column_padding_position=”all” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_shadow=”none” column_border_radius=”none” column_link_target=”_self” width=”1\/2″ tablet_width_inherit=”default” overlay_strength=”0.3″ column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid” bg_image_animation=”none”][image_with_animation image_url=”7703″ alignment=”” animation=”Fade In” hover_animation=”none” border_radius=”none” box_shadow=”none” image_loading=”default” max_width=”100%” max_width_mobile=”default”][\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner][page_submenu alignment=”center” sticky=”true” bg_color=”#ffffff” link_color=”#fe420d”][page_link link_url=”#uebersicht” title=”Overview” id=”1583509600663-8″ tab_id=”1583509600664-1″] [\/page_link][page_link link_url=”#plattform” title=”Platform” id=”1583509600755-10″ tab_id=”1583509600756-10″] [\/page_link][page_link title=”Platform features” id=”1583509600845-8″ link_url=”#eigenschaften” tab_id=”1583509600845-0″][\/page_link][page_link title=”Roadmap” id=”1583509600929-1″ tab_id=”1583509600930-6″ link_url=”#roadmap”][\/page_link][page_link title=”More information” id=”1583509601014-10″ tab_id=”1583509601014-3″ link_url=”#Weiterfuehrende-Informationen”][\/page_link][page_link title=”Summary” id=”1583509601098-1″ link_url=”#zusammenfassung” tab_id=”1583509601099-3″][\/page_link][page_link title=”Contact” id=”1583509601191-1″ link_url=”#Beratung-und-Kontakt” tab_id=”1583509601192-10″][\/page_link][\/page_submenu][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row type=”full_width_background” full_screen_row_position=”middle” column_margin=”default” scene_position=”center” text_color=”dark” text_align=”left” bottom_padding=”5%” id=”uebersicht” overlay_strength=”0.3″ shape_divider_position=”bottom” bg_image_animation=”none” shape_type=””][vc_column column_padding=”no-extra-padding” column_padding_position=”all” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_link_target=”_self” column_shadow=”none” column_border_radius=”none” width=”1\/1″ tablet_width_inherit=”default” tablet_text_alignment=”default” phone_text_alignment=”default” overlay_strength=”0.3″ column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid” bg_image_animation=”none”][vc_row_inner equal_height=”yes” content_placement=”middle” column_margin=”default” text_align=”left”][vc_column_inner column_padding=”no-extra-padding” column_padding_position=”all” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_shadow=”none” column_border_radius=”none” column_link_target=”_self” width=”1\/1″ tablet_width_inherit=”default” overlay_strength=”0.3″ column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid” bg_image_animation=”none”][split_line_heading animation_type=”default”]\n

Overview<\/h2>\n[\/split_line_heading][vc_column_text]\n

Let’s start with a brief overview. SAP Conversational AI is a comprehensive collaborative platform for creating chatbots. Together with conversational, natural language processing (NLP), and dialog management capabilities, as well as extensive API documentation, SAP Conversational AI makes it easy to connect your bots to almost any popular messaging channel.<\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][vc_video link=”https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=H0HN4JPHAPo” align=”center”][vc_column_text]\n

You can invite others to work with you on your bots, or create a shared account (an organizational account) that allows groups of people to work on bots simultaneously. You can also create a FAQ bot that retrieves answers to users’ questions from one or more documents (.csv file ) that you upload.<\/p>\n

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Recast.AI (acquired in early 2018), now SAP Conversational AI (CAI), replaces the SAP CoPilot backend. The NLP part of CoPilot will be replaced by SAP CAI on SAP Cloud Foundry, while the user experience will remain similar and improved, including CoPilot chat features. Thus, the two technologies are combined to create the ultimate conversational experience.<\/p>\n

Accordingly, to drive the Intelligent Enterprise, SAP is combining its two conversational products into one major offering: CoPilot and the startup formerly known as Recast.AI into SAP Conversational AI.<\/p>\n

SAP wants to enable every user to interact smoothly with its software through a single conversational interface. This is the reason for the Digital Assistant. It is connected to SAP products, extensible for all use cases, and highly personalized and context-sensitive.<\/p>\n

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On the other hand, there is the bot building platform. This platform is SAP Conversational AI. It lets you build powerful conversational agents with robust training, building, generating, connecting, and monitoring modules. With the bot building platform, you can implement any size case in any industry. It is one of the easiest and fastest bot building platforms based on collaboration, community and a marketplace.<\/p>\n

This future outlook underscores the importance of starting to build SAP Conversational AI knowledge in order to deliver a superior customer and employee experience.<\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row type=”full_width_background” full_screen_row_position=”middle” equal_height=”yes” content_placement=”middle” column_margin=”default” bg_image=”8093″ bg_position=”center center” bg_repeat=”no-repeat” bg_color=”#ffffff” scene_position=”center” text_color=”light” text_align=”left” top_padding=”80″ bottom_padding=”80″ color_overlay=”#fe420d” overlay_strength=”0.95″ shape_divider_position=”bottom” bg_image_animation=”none” shape_type=””][vc_column column_padding=”no-extra-padding” column_padding_position=”all” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_link_target=”_self” column_shadow=”none” column_border_radius=”none” width=”2\/3″ tablet_width_inherit=”default” tablet_text_alignment=”center” phone_text_alignment=”center” overlay_strength=”0.3″ column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid” bg_image_animation=”none”][nectar_highlighted_text color_type=”regular” highlight_color=”#ff1053″ style=”half_text”]\n

Lernen Sie heute<\/em> wie Sie einen Chatbot erstellen.<\/h2>\n[\/nectar_highlighted_text][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1583396190328{margin-top: 15px !important;}”]\n

Use our guide to build your first full chatbot with SAP Conversational AI. It provides an overview of commonly used terms and includes the steps necessary to create their first chatbot. The bot is able to understand and respond to your intentions.<\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column column_padding=”no-extra-padding” column_padding_position=”all” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_link_target=”_self” column_shadow=”none” column_border_radius=”none” width=”1\/3″ tablet_width_inherit=”default” tablet_text_alignment=”center” phone_text_alignment=”center” overlay_strength=”0.3″ column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid” bg_image_animation=”none”][vc_row_inner column_margin=”default” text_align=”right”][vc_column_inner column_padding=”no-extra-padding” column_padding_position=”all” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_shadow=”none” column_border_radius=”none” column_link_target=”_self” width=”1\/1″ tablet_width_inherit=”default” overlay_strength=”0.3″ column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid” bg_image_animation=”none”][nectar_btn size=”jumbo” open_new_tab=”true” button_style=”see-through-2″ color_override=”#ffffff” hover_color_override=”#ffffff” hover_text_color_override=”#000000″ icon_family=”default_arrow” url=”http:\/\/consolvis-5159587.hs-sites.com\/leitfaden-zu-ihrem-ersten-chatbot-mit-sap-conversational-ai” text=”Get your guide now”][\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row type=”full_width_background” full_screen_row_position=”middle” column_margin=”default” scene_position=”center” text_color=”dark” text_align=”left” top_padding=”2%” id=”plattform” overlay_strength=”0.3″ shape_divider_position=”bottom” bg_image_animation=”none” shape_type=””][vc_column column_padding=”no-extra-padding” column_padding_position=”all” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_link_target=”_self” column_shadow=”none” column_border_radius=”none” width=”1\/1″ tablet_width_inherit=”default” tablet_text_alignment=”default” phone_text_alignment=”default” overlay_strength=”0.3″ column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid” bg_image_animation=”none”][vc_row_inner equal_height=”yes” content_placement=”middle” column_margin=”default” text_align=”left”][vc_column_inner column_padding=”no-extra-padding” column_padding_position=”all” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_shadow=”none” column_border_radius=”none” column_link_target=”_self” width=”1\/1″ tablet_width_inherit=”default” overlay_strength=”0.3″ column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid” bg_image_animation=”none”][split_line_heading animation_type=”default”]\n

The platform<\/h2>\n[\/split_line_heading][vc_column_text]\n

Let’s continue with a brief introduction to the platform and a detailed description of its features.<\/p>\n

Recast.AI, now known as SAP Conversational AI (CAI), is part of the SAP Leonardo Machine Learning products. It is a collaborative platform that allows its users to implement conversational interfaces. This technology is mainly used to create chatbots. Other options include using it for voice assistants or IVR.<\/p>\n

The end-to-end collaborative bot platform for developers enables training, building, connecting and monitoring chatbots through an easy-to-use interface and brings the benefit of natural language processing (NLP) based Deep Learning.<\/p>\n

This allows users to parse sentences, identify their intent (classification), and extract essential information called entities (named entity recognition).<\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][vc_video link=”https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=HNhPxE8uxlk&t” align=”center”][vc_column_text]\n

The CAI platform includes a complete suite of tools for creating bots. Developers can use the Train tool to train their bot to understand intentions and entities, and use the Bot Builder to build their conversation flows in a visual and easy-to-use interface.<\/p>\n

In addition, the Bot Connector helps users connect their bots to different channels. Finally, with the Monitor tool, they can collect all the logs the bot has received, as well as usage and business analytics to improve the bot over time.<\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row type=”full_width_background” full_screen_row_position=”middle” column_margin=”default” scene_position=”center” text_color=”dark” text_align=”left” top_padding=”2%” id=”eigenschaften” overlay_strength=”0.3″ shape_divider_position=”bottom” bg_image_animation=”none” shape_type=””][vc_column column_padding=”no-extra-padding” column_padding_position=”all” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_link_target=”_self” column_shadow=”none” column_border_radius=”none” width=”1\/1″ tablet_width_inherit=”default” tablet_text_alignment=”default” phone_text_alignment=”default” overlay_strength=”0.3″ column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid” bg_image_animation=”none”][vc_row_inner column_margin=”default” text_align=”left”][vc_column_inner column_padding=”no-extra-padding” column_padding_position=”all” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_shadow=”none” column_border_radius=”none” column_link_target=”_self” width=”1\/1″ tablet_width_inherit=”default” overlay_strength=”0.3″ column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid” bg_image_animation=”none”][split_line_heading animation_type=”default”]\n

The features of the platform<\/h2>\n[\/split_line_heading][\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner][vc_column_text]\n

Communication channels<\/h3>\n[\/vc_column_text][vc_row_inner equal_height=”yes” column_margin=”default” text_align=”left”][vc_column_inner column_padding=”no-extra-padding” column_padding_position=”all” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_shadow=”none” column_border_radius=”none” column_link_target=”_self” width=”1\/2″ tablet_width_inherit=”default” overlay_strength=”0.3″ column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid” bg_image_animation=”none”][vc_column_text]\n

The platform offers a bot connector tool integrated into the platform that supports channels. These include, for example, Slack, Twilio, Twitter, Telegram, SAP JAM Collaboration, Facebook Messenger, Microsoft Teams, Line, Webchat, SAP Conversational AI Web Client, and even voice assistants such as Amazon Alexa and Microsoft Cortana. Other channels can be easily integrated as long as they offer an open API. This includes Google Home, for example.<\/p>\n

Note that some channels are limited in terms of the ability to insert functions such as buttons. For compatibilities related to UX components such as cards, quick answers, carousel, button list please check this page.<\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner column_padding=”no-extra-padding” column_padding_position=”all” centered_text=”true” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_shadow=”none” column_border_radius=”none” column_link_target=”_self” width=”1\/2″ tablet_width_inherit=”default” overlay_strength=”0.3″ column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid” bg_image_animation=”none”][vc_video link=”https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=3cIdYy5tNyY”][\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner equal_height=”yes” column_margin=”default” text_align=”left”][vc_column_inner column_padding=”no-extra-padding” column_padding_position=”all” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_shadow=”none” column_border_radius=”none” column_link_target=”_self” width=”1\/2″ tablet_width_inherit=”default” overlay_strength=”0.3″ column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid” bg_image_animation=”none”][vc_column_text]\n

Fallback channels<\/h3>\n

Fallback Channels allow you to hand off a conversation from a bot to an agent. For handoff to a live agent, there are currently integrations out of the box with SAP Contact Center and Intercom.<\/p>\n

Other services can be integrated as long as they offer an open API. Think HubSpot, Zendesk or Genesys, for example.<\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner column_padding=”no-extra-padding” column_padding_position=”all” centered_text=”true” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_shadow=”none” column_border_radius=”none” column_link_target=”_self” width=”1\/2″ tablet_width_inherit=”default” overlay_strength=”0.3″ column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid” bg_image_animation=”none”][image_with_animation image_url=”8511″ alignment=”” animation=”Fade In” hover_animation=”none” border_radius=”none” box_shadow=”none” image_loading=”default” max_width=”75%” max_width_mobile=”default”][\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner equal_height=”yes” column_margin=”default” text_align=”left”][vc_column_inner column_padding=”no-extra-padding” column_padding_position=”all” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_shadow=”none” column_border_radius=”none” column_link_target=”_self” width=”1\/1″ tablet_width_inherit=”default” overlay_strength=”0.3″ column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid” bg_image_animation=”none”][vc_column_text]\n

For integration, you should ask yourself the following questions about the live chat provider:<\/p>\n

– Does your live chat offer an API?
– Does this API allow pushing messages to an agent?
– Is there a webhook system that allows a message to be answered by an agent?
– Is there a webhook system to know when an agent has ended the call?<\/p>\n

If these conditions are met, integration with the service provider will be possible.<\/p>\n

In addition, open connectors available as part of the SAP Business Technology Platform provide access to a wide range of non-SAP systems, including a broad range of help desk solutions.<\/p>\n

These connectors complement SAP Conversational AI and accelerate chatbot integration with somewhat more closed systems.<\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner equal_height=”yes” content_placement=”middle” column_margin=”default” text_align=”left”][vc_column_inner column_padding=”no-extra-padding” column_padding_position=”all” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_shadow=”none” column_border_radius=”none” column_link_target=”_self” width=”1\/1″ tablet_width_inherit=”default” overlay_strength=”0.3″ column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid” bg_image_animation=”none”][vc_column_text]\n

Supported languages<\/h3>\n

CAI supports all languages<\/a> with intent classification and Named Entity Recognition (NER) and enrichment functionalities.<\/p>\n

German, English, Spanish and French have extended support. This means that you will be able to use gold entities. These are over 30 entities that can be extracted without training, for example days of the week or times.<\/p>\n

SAP is a global company that understands the importance of interacting with local markets in their native language. More details can be found on this page.<\/p>\n

The bots are multilingual, which means that users can talk to the bot in multiple languages, as long as you have added the language for that specific intent. For standard and advanced languages, the platform can recognize (classify) the language of the user input and respond accordingly.<\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner equal_height=”yes” content_placement=”middle” column_margin=”default” text_align=”left”][vc_column_inner column_padding=”no-extra-padding” column_padding_position=”all” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_shadow=”none” column_border_radius=”none” column_link_target=”_self” width=”1\/1″ tablet_width_inherit=”default” overlay_strength=”0.3″ column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid” bg_image_animation=”none”][vc_column_text]\n

Architecture<\/h3>\n

The critical components in the bot architecture are:<\/p>\n