Johan P van den Bergh a business consultant and former CEO posted this real world application for EasyAsk based on his previous experience.

EasyAsk

You have spent a large amount on the most sophisticated and management systems to manage your business. You have a fully integrated Business Information (BI) system and all your routine questions have been programmed to give you the answers for your board meetings.

It is the evening before the board meeting and you are doing final preparations. It is an important meeting; you are requesting a large unbudgeted amount to be able to deal with a threat from the opposition. Suddenly, you need additional information to clarify a question that has been in the back of your mind for some time, but which you have been unable to formulate.

How many times has this happened? You have what you think you need and then suddenly something else is obviously required to make that breakthrough you know will make the difference. It is too late to get the backroom people in to come and programme your Bi system to access the report. Anyway, you will only need the specific information once and probably never again. The cost of configuring the required data and to extract the report is not worth the effort. Anyway, the people are not readily available at 21:00 and you have to do without it.

No more with Progress Software Corporation’s EasyAsk®. It is the one system that looks at all your company data and answers your questions without backroom involvement by searching with natural language processing (NLP). You ask the question. EasyAsk® will search your company data, no matter in which system or on which platform - custom made or propriety - even e-mail, and give you the answer, quickly and without any IT intervention or further software development.

Now you will be able to get answers to all those questions that you could not get in the past; the stuff that that turns mediocre performance into sparkling bottom line results. You configure it the way you want it.

Does this sound too good to be true? Speak to QBCon for a demo of this and you will see how you will be able to make a difference to your bottom line in a very short period. Get those elusive answers that were not available, or only available with painful and costly interaction, with the system programmers.