Operational Efficiency
AIOps can augment or even replace a variety of current IT operations processes. AIOps builds upon Robotic Process Automation (RPA) and Automation of IT processes (ITPA), combining big data with AI and machine learning. With AI capable of not only independently diagnosing several root cause issues but also understanding those problems holistically, the burden for data teams to understand the source of all their problems is diminished. The need to painstakingly sort through data logs is also greatly reduced. AIOPs automation can provide notifications for specific system failures, as well as provide answers to technical problems not only in a backward- and forward-looking way, but also in a self-healing way.
AIOps can provide a dynamic baseline that defines the normal behavior of an app or a service, then creates and constantly tracks dynamic operational thresholds to ensure everything is running as smoothly and efficiently possible. Workflow automation, which provides for the efficient execution of predetermined workflows. AIOps breaks down data silos, making data throughout the organization much more visible, trustworthy, analyzable and, ultimately, more useful.
Customer Experience
According to a report, 74% of bank operations leaders say customer experience is their top strategic priority. Today, the quality of a customer’s experience is completely shaped by the digital channels that customers interact with daily. Banks must deliver a seamless experience across all customer channels while also connecting with the customer on a highly personal level, whether the connection occurs online, on a mobile device, at an ATM, or in a branch.
Fulfilling customer expectations is the prime goal of finance companies. In a recent survey, the banking executives found that “customer expectations” rated highest and was driving disruption in the finance industry. Bank customers need real-time access to their accounts and balances. Fraud departments need both real-time access to transaction data so they can build powerful predictive models as well as proactive solutions that can spot outliers that might just be the signal of nefarious activity.
AIOps helps in both these cases because it provides end-to-end visibility of a company’s applications and infrastructure. It reduces noise in the data, breaks down data silos, and simplifies root cause analysis throughout the operation. All-in-all, AIOps provides a seamless customer experience that banking customers might not notice, but that, in itself is something to be noted.
Data Governance
AIOps tools can profile and catalog data automatically. AIOps can assess a company’s data sources based on the six dimensions of data quality — accuracy, completeness, consistency, timeliness, uniqueness, and validity. A “trust index” can be created and data that falls outside a specific set of indicators will trigger alerts that inform necessary parties of issues or approaching issues.
Once the incoming data assets are identified, documented, and trusted, it is time to organize them for massive consumption by an extended network of data users within an organization and AIOps facilitates just this.
Lower Costs
Because AIOps can handle much of the common and repetitive tasks and issues that a normal service desk must take care of, labor costs can be reduced. Standard problems like lost passwords, log in issues, or company-wide system issues can be handled by an AIOps system, reducing the need for live customer service reps. AIOps can relieve IT personnel of the minor, everyday problems, leaving them free to handle only the challenging issues, ones that require creative thought.
A movement to AIOps can create substantial savings by automating customer services queries. It is considerably cheaper for a financial institution to handle customer request and customer complaints on an app or online rather than in person. AIOps simplifies the process of getting data into the hands of a customer, making it more likely they will not need a live customer service rep for help.
Conclusion
For finance companies, AIOps help IT automate monitoring at scale. Every day, the volume, variety, veracity, and velocity of data that needs to be managed, cleansed, documented, correlated, and analyzed increases dramatically. AIOps separates signal from noise while filtering out real incidents that demand attention from insignificant ones that can be ignored. Governance becomes a breeze and ROI even becomes measurable.
