Vol - 18 | July 2024

Foreword

Empowering Financial Institutions with Enterprise Connected Intelligence

In today’s fast-evolving financial landscape, the ability to harness data-driven insights effectively is more critical than ever. Enterprise Connected Intelligence stands at the forefront as a game changer for financial institutions, revolutionising how they leverage data and AI to drive innovation and enhance operational efficiency.

Arun Jain

By integrating diverse knowledge domains—Structured Data, Document Knowledge, Operations Knowledge, Regulatory Knowledge, and Market Knowledge—Enterprise Connected Intelligence empowers financial institutions to make informed decisions swiftly and confidently. This integrated approach not only optimises operational processes but also enhances customer interactions and regulatory compliance.

At Intellect, we recognise the transformative power of Enterprise Connected Intelligence. It enables financial institutions to unlock the full potential of AI, creating new opportunities for growth and differentiation in a competitive market landscape. By fostering collaboration between human expertise and advanced AI capabilities within a secure IT ecosystem, we ensure that your organization remains agile and resilient in the face of evolving industry demands. Join us in embracing Enterprise Connected Intelligence and discover how it can elevate your organisation’s capabilities, driving sustainable success and customer satisfaction.

Arun Jain
Chairman and Managing Director
Intellect Design Arena Limited

Cover Story

Summarising FY24, the first year in Intellect 3.0

(This is a shorter version of our Chairman’s Letter to Shareholders from the recently published Annual Report for FY 2023-24)

In the charter for Intellect 3.0, we had identified a few key drivers for growth – Expanding into new geographies, Incubating more platforms, Establishing a strong partner network, Leveraging existing IP and Customer assets – that would guide our Business design for the next few years. It is gratifying to note that we have made significant progress on each of the above aspects in FY24.

The eMACH.ai Phenomenon

FY24 commenced soon after the launch of eMACH.ai in February 2023. eMACH.ai is the culmination of our relentless architecture focused R&D initiatives for over a decade – 16 mn person hours! – that seek to constantly calibrate ourselves against the future and retain us ahead of the Technology curve.

Applying first principles thinking, we succeeded in elementalising the seemingly complex Banking space to finite number of Events, Microservices and Application Programming Interfaces – APIs that act as connectors and successfully deployed them in live Cloud hosted installations for our customers, giving them the flexibility to design and compose their experience layers as well, while simultaneously equipping them with the power of 8 AI technologies that deliver connected Enterprise Intelligence.

From AI to Enterprise Connected Intelligence (CI)

Purple Fabric, Intellect’s AI Platform is unique in offering Enterprise grade AI that is secure, robust, accurate, explainable and traceable. As the adoption of AI proliferates to be all pervasive, we differentiate ourselves by the multiplier effect that the synthesis of the 8 technologies brings with a deep vertical context to the Banking & Financial Services space. In contrast to horizontal AI technologies that address parts of the Information value chain with selective, one-off deployments of Bots and Agents, Intellect’s holistic, Design thinking led approach ensures input quality through validated and enriched information using the first 4 technologies and subsequently attempts a close match of the consultative, self managed human decisioning process with a network of self learning Expert agents to deliver insights and recommendations. I have found a strong endorsement of this uniqueness in my meetings with Customers, Consultants and Partners over the last few months. The Industry trend is to move to more efficient vertical focused Language Models, where we have a headway.

We commenced FY25 with a global summit of our leadership team across Technology, Domain, Business Development and Enablement roles to align and converge on a shared vision for leveraging the power of this technology, translating it into Customer Impact in the areas of transformation of Enterprise, Operations, Experience or in expanding capabilities and in driving efficiencies within for greater monetisation and benefits. During the course of FY24, we had completed multiple cohorts of technology certification in the Composability platform and AI platform as well as trained our Leadership and mid Management in refresher Leadership skills. Read more

Spotlight

Intellect recently lauched the second edition of Intellect's Sustainability Report for FY 2023-24. The report, anchored around 'Holistic Sustainability', reflects our ongoing commitment to make a positive impact within our organisation, across communities, and through the broader ecosystem. The report is the outcome of a successful third party assessment wherein we were assessed "GRI - In accordance", indicating full compliance with the AA1000AS v3 standard, including both principles-based and performance information assurance. This indicates a rigorous and comprehensive assurance process resulting in a high level of assurance and confidence in the sustainability report.  Read More

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