Lesson 1 Case Study

Alistair, Farid, Trenyce and

Syazwani
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The organization aims to help improve the efficiency and effectiveness of government procurement and raise it to a more strategic level of intelligent sourcing and
purchasing.

The issues faced by the organization are Classification , Performance, Data quality and Information accessibility.
• Classification: GeBIZ Portal was originally built to facilitate transactional activities. These transactions were not classified into detailed categories for analysis. The
result is a database of millions of transactions but without the means to determine what was bought or sold.
• Performance: the processing time is longer than expected
• Data quality: System changes due to policy and capability additions impose increased demands on the information schema. The information schema evolves over
time and sometimes results in data redefinition and inconsistencies.
• Information accessibility: Businesses change and evolve over time, often rapidly. To allow key decision makers insights into the market, they must be able to access
relevant information immediately as and when they need it. This requirement called for a need to rapidly deploy cross-business reports or answer ad hoc queries.

The solution implemented to solve these issues are:

• Classification : An off-the-shelf and in-database AI engine was customized and deployed to address this classification problem. With the help specialists from,
25,000 record samples in GeBIZ were extracted and manually categorized.
• Performance: database and hardware architecture tuned to help overcome performance problem
• Data quality: GeBIZ receives data constantly from various external systems for processing. The data quality from these external systems is beyond GeBIZ’s control.
This combination of factors makes the reporting of historical data difficult.
• Information accessibility: providing GMCs to the businesses

Solution outcome:
• Classification: a classification engine is ineffective if it cannot understand the unstructured information within each procurement transaction.
• Performance : millions of items are now conceptually analyzed across all of GeBIZ's transactions and results returned daily without significant waiting times.
• Information accessibility: Allows the user immediate access to data needed.
- Business goal
Dickey's Barbecue Restaurants plans to use Amazon Alexa so franchisees can get operational data while cooking,
with dashboards still available for querying outside the barbecue pit.

- Issues/challenges faced by organizations

On a barbecue restaurant, smoking meats is a messy, hands-on task that does not lend itself to look up for
operational data in BI dashboards with a keyboard.

- Solutions implemented to solve the issues

They tried to put the Alexa in the restaurants to provide a more viable interface for real time interactions with the
data Dickey's made available.

- Outcomes of the solution

There is still technical issues in some of the restaurants. They also couldn’t find an optimal safe location for Alexa to
be clear off smoke, grease and ambient noise while letting owners and their pit crews interact with the application
in a convenient way.
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