Karndean: From Data Validation to Business Insight With Board Agents

A lot of what my job entails is reviewing the data,

questioning the data, and then explaining the data.

So having the Agent integrated, it's just instant then.

We haven't got to extract the data to feed it into something else. It's there.

It doesn't slow things down by having it integrated into the system, whereas

anything else, it would be a case of having to extract the data, put it into

another system, wait for it to spit out the answer, and then go back to

the accounts. I just like that closed loop of being able to use it as we're

working. The local territories can use it as a data integrity

check before it comes to group finance to then see.

We have that confidence that all the basic checks and validation rules have been

done because they can interact with the Agent.

That then takes it of us and we can look at more of the

high-level group analysis, which is more beneficial to us.

Which territory is causing this big movement in stock?

What is causing this increase, decrease in cash?

Normally, I'd have to go look through one at a time, see who's causing it.

Being able to just ask the Agent, "Tell me what the

cause is, who's causing it, and why?" And it was able to take my data, look

at it, extract it, put it in a summarized table, and give me an answer fairly

quickly. There's my level, there's CFO, CEOs

who want to understand as well. So being able to give them that instant access

rather than have to put together an analysis, pass it on, wait for them

to look at it. Being able to give them the access and say, "Here you go, you can

ask it questions, and it'll tell you instantly." It could save

a good amount of time, up to probably a day, two

days. Having a tool like the Agent support in that and

provide some deeper insights at a faster pace is

really beneficial.