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  • BFSI Fraud Detection gets smarter with DSW UnifyAI

    BFSI Fraud Detection gets smarter with DSW UnifyAI

    What is the founding vision behind Data Science Wizards, and how does it differentiate itself from other AI platform providers?

    The founding vision of Data Science Wizards(DSW) has been to make AI adoption real,scalable, and responsible for enterprises. Over the years, AI deployments often stalled in ‘pilot mode,’ not because of lack of technology, but because enterprises lacked an infrastructure layer to embed AI into the core of their operations.

    DSW’s UnifyAI was built to address this gap. It is not another AI tool; it is the OS for Enterprise AI — a platform that unifies the lifecycle of data, models, agents, governance, and deployment. This allows enterprises to move from isolated experiments to production-grade AI systems at speed and with confidence.

    What differentiates us is:

    • A unified lifecycle that connects data to deployment seamlessly.
    • Enterprise-grade governance, ensuring AI is usable even in highly regulated industries.
    • In essence, DSW UnifyAI helps enterprises treat AI not as an addon, but as a foundational business capability.

    How does DSW UnifyAI handle hybrid AI execution across cloud and on-premise environments?

    Hybrid execution is a foundational principle of DSW UnifyAI’s architecture.
    In BFSI and other regulated industries, critical workloads cannot reside fully on public cloud due to compliance, data residency, and security requirements. At the same time, enterprises need the elasticity of cloud to scale computeheavy workloads such as model training or GenAI use cases.

    Key to this is a centralised control plane that provides governance, observability, and policy enforcement across all environments. Every model, workflow, and decision is traceable and explainable, ensuring enterprises can scale AI adoption responsibly while meeting regulatory expectations.

    With this approach, organisations can keep sensitive workloads inhouse, leverage cloud where scale is required, and operate with full flexibility — all without vendor lock-in.

    What impact has insurAInce had on reducing claims fraud and improving persistency prediction in live deployments?

    “ DSW UnifyAI helps enterprises treat AI not as an add-on, but as a foundational business capability ”

    insurAInce, built on DSW UnifyAI, is our flagship vertical solution for insurers. It addresses two of the most critical business priorities in the industry:

    Claims fraud detection: By combining GenAIdriven document parsing with anomaly detection, insurAInce enables insurers to identify fraudulent claims earlier and handle them at scale with greater efficiency.
    This not only reduces financial leakage but also accelerates claims resolution, strengthening customer trust.

    Persistency prediction: Predictive models that leverage both structured policyholder data and unstructured sources like call transcripts generate early warning signals for lapses.
    This allows insurers to engage proactively with customers, improving retention and protecting long-term profitability.
    What makes insurAInce impactful is not just the sophistication of its models, but the governance and explainability embedded in every workflow. With DSW UnifyAI as the backbone, insurers gain a system that scales predictably, learns continuously from ground-level feedback, and delivers insights they can trust in highly regulated environments.

    For BFSI clients, how does your platform improve fraud detection accuracy while keeping false positives low?

    Fraud detection is only valuable if accuracy is achieved without overburdening teams with false positives. DSW UnifyAI improves this balance through a multilayered strategy:

    • Hybrid data models capture richer fraud signals by blending structured transactions with unstructured content like chats and documents.
    • Adaptive feedback loops refine models continuously using investigator inputs, improving accuracy over time.
    • Confidence scoring APIs quantify the reliability of predictions, enabling risk-based prioritization.
    • Agentic AI orchestration INTERVIEW Volume 1 Issue 3 | THE BANKER | 31 manages entire fraud investigation workflows, surfacing only cases requiring human judgment.
      The result: BFSI clients achieve higher fraud detection rates while maintaining false positives, ensuring both compliance and customer trust.

    What safeguards are in place to ensure explainability, transparency, and traceability in GenAIpowered workflows?

    Trust is fundamental to AI adoption, and DSW UnifyAI addresses this through a governed GenAI framework that incorporates safeguards at every level. The platform features a Prompt Hub with versioning, ensuring that every prompt, model, and output remains fully auditable.
    Guardrails and policy enforcement are built into workflows to embed both regulatory and business rules seamlessly.

    Additionally, explainability layers provide context and rationale for outputs, making AI decisions interpretable for users.
    Complementing this, traceability logs capture the complete decision journey, creating an endto- end audit trail.
    Together, these measures ensure that GenAI in BFSI and other highly regulated industries does not operate as a ‘black box,’ but rather as a transparent, controlled system that enterprises can adopt with confidence.

    How do you see the role of AI in reshaping risk management and fraud detection in the next 5 years?

    “ Together, these measures ensure that GenAI in BFSI and other highly regulated industries does not operate as a ‘black box,’ but rather as a transparent, controlled system that enterprises can adopt with confidence ”

    The next five years will bring a fundamental transformation in the way risk and fraud are managed, with humans remaining an essential part of the loop. Three key trends are expected to shape this evolution:

    • Agentic AI systems will autonomously manage end-toend workflows, from detection to resolution, thereby reducing dependence on manual intervention while ensuring human oversight remains integral.
    • Real-time risk engines will emerge, powered by AInative infrastructure, enabling dynamic risk scoring across portfolios and transactions with unprecedented speed and accuracy.
    • Collaborative ecosystems will take shape, where banks, insurers, and regulators securely share AI-driven insights. This will strengthen fraud prevention efforts while safeguarding privacy and compliance.

    Overall, risk management will shift from a reactive model to a proactive and predictive one. The enterprises that succeed will be those that embed AI as a core infrastructure layer rather than treating it as a siloed tool while maintaining a balance between automation and human judgment.

  • Moving from Use Cases to Business Purpose — The New AI Imperative for Insurers

    Moving from Use Cases to Business Purpose — The New AI Imperative for Insurers

    In the world of insurance, AI adoption is no longer a question of “why”- it’s about “how” and “what truly moves the needle.”

    At DSW, we believe the future of AI in insurance isn’t just about building individual use cases. It’s about aligning every use case — every model, every agent, every interaction — to a clear Statement of Business Purpose (SBP).

    Because when AI connects directly to what the business is trying to achieve, adoption becomes not just easier — it becomes inevitable.

    DSW UnifyAI: A Platform Built Around Business Purpose

    UnifyAI isn’t just a platform to build and deploy AI/ML or GenAI use cases — it’s a real-time AI engine designed to:

    • Understand enterprise context
    • Seamlessly integrate ML & GenAI workflows
    • Enable modular but interconnected AI systems
    • Deliver value at the point of business impact

    Our approach is simple: Start with your business purpose. Then, map the AI/ML and GenAI use cases needed to get there.

    What Do Business Purposes in Insurance Look Like?

    Here are a few key Statements of Business Purpose (SBPs), but not limited to -emerging across insurers, where we see AI gaining real traction:

    Statement of Business Purpose — Combination of various AI/ML or GenAI use cases

    Why Is This Shift Important?

    When AI use cases operate in isolation, value stays fragmented.

    But when they are linked back to a unifying business purpose, here’s what changes:

    They’re easier to justify internally, outcomes are measurable and visible, AI adoption becomes part of the business rhythm, stakeholders across functions rally around impact, it unlocks cross-functional compounding value

    The DSW UnifyAI Advantage

    DSW is not just bringing a platform. We’re bringing an AI operating layer, along with the expertise to walk with insurers through:

    • Aligning use cases to SBPs
    • Designing interconnected workflows (ML + GenAI)
    • Implementing fast: 30 days for AI/ML, 2–4 hours for GenAI readiness
    • Ensuring sustainable, governed, and scalable execution

    More than just an UnifyAI platform — we are a committed AI partner, co-owning the journey to embed intelligence into the very core of insurance workflows.

    Thought: AI That Understands Why

    AI adoption tied to “what the business cares about” isn’t just more impactful — it’s more sustainable.

    That’s the DSW UnifyAI difference.

    Let’s build for outcomes, not just experiments.

    Let’s align to purpose, not just pilots.

    Let’s make AI count — where it matters most.

  • The AI Imperative: From Experimentation to Operationalization

    The AI Imperative: From Experimentation to Operationalization

    In the world of technology, we often speak of “waves of change.” We saw it with the internet, with mobile, and now, with AI. Yet, if we look closely, AI isn’t one big wave; it’s a series of them — from the foundational machine learning models of a decade ago to the recent surge of generative AI, and the emerging tide of agentic AI. This constant evolution is both exhilarating and daunting for enterprise leaders everywhere.

    Nearly every organization has launched an AI pilot. The excitement is palpable; the potential, limitless. But there’s a quiet, sobering reality lurking behind the headlines. Far fewer of these experiments have successfully transitioned into scalable, production-grade capabilities that deliver measurable, and meaningful, business value. The statistics are stark: Only half of AI projects make it from the pilot stage to production, and for those that do, the journey can take as long as nine months. This isn’t just a minor hurdle; it’s a critical chasm that separates vision from reality. If your AI strategy is still circling the proof-of-concept phase, you’re not alone, but you are falling behind.

    The Problem with “Throwing in AI”

    In the face of rapid technological development and the fear of missing out (FOMO), it’s tempting to simply “throw AI” at existing problems. This approach, while seemingly a quick fix, often leads to a new layer of technical debt. It creates isolated point solutions — small, siloed automations that are hard to maintain, change, and evolve. This is a trap, a dead end that can stall an entire organization’s progress. We saw a similar pattern with Robotic Process Automation (RPA) over the last decade. While RPA provided quick wins, without a broader strategy, it often resulted in a messy patchwork of automations that became a maintenance nightmare. The same fate awaits those who fail to see the bigger picture with AI.

    The core issue lies in the operational gap. We’re great at building proofs-of-concept, but we lack the robust, adaptable architecture needed to bring these powerful technologies to life within complex enterprise environments. The spaghetti architecture of historically grown IT systems makes it nearly impossible to integrate and scale new AI capabilities seamlessly.

    The Right Action: A Unified AI Operating System

    So, what’s the right way forward? The answer is to create a process and operational architecture that achieves two critical objectives:

    1. Realize value today: You must have the ability to deploy and benefit from new AI technologies as soon as they are ready to drive real business value.
    2. Be ready for tomorrow: Your architecture must be flexible, scalable, and resilient enough to incorporate the “next big thing” in AI, even before we know what it is.

    This requires a fundamental shift from a project-based mindset to a platform-based one. We need a solution that serves as a central nervous system for AI, an Operating System for AI — one that is unified, secure, and production-ready from day one.

    Such a groundbreaking platform isn’t just another tool. It’s an end-to-end system that provides a seamless pathway from data integration to deployment and monitoring. It’s designed to be a complete solution with built-in AI and GenAI Studios, taking use cases from experimentation to production swiftly and at scale. It offers the kind of flexibility seen in leading public AI models, but entirely within your own infrastructure, with your data, your compliance, and your governance. It securely orchestrates AI and GenAI across on-premise, private, or hybrid cloud environments, with built-in guardrails for enterprise-grade security.

    The Groundbreaking Impact of a Unified Platform

    The benefits of this approach are transformative. By adopting an AI Operating System, enterprises can unlock unparalleled speed and efficiency, dramatically improving their return on investment (ROI). Imagine launching an AI use case in days, and a generative AI application in just hours. This is not a distant dream; it’s a reality.

    With a unified platform, organizations can:

    • Go live 50% faster and cut their total cost of ownership (TCO) by 60%.
    • Build, deploy, and scale their AI use cases in just 30 days, and GenAI in under 4 hours.
    • Automate complex processes like feature engineering, dramatically reducing the time and effort required for development and deployment.

    These aren’t just hypothetical gains. This approach has a proven track record of delivering real-world impact for clients across various sectors. For example, in the insurance industry, a leading company achieved 3X faster deployment for use cases like customer retention and persistency prediction. Another saw 80% data accuracy in identity matching, and a third reduced manual effort by 70% for policy retention with real-time risk prediction.

    In the banking sector, a financial institution achieved over 80% accuracy in detecting real-time anomalies, reducing their incident resolution time by 30%. Another bank’s real-time monitoring predicted customer defaults with over 85% accuracy, leading to a 20% reduction in loan loss provisions. The impact is equally significant in retail, where a customer reduced stock-outs by 40%, excess inventory by 50%, and improved inventory turnover by at least 40%. Another customer dropped return rates by 33% and reduced handling costs by 20%, driving repeat purchases and higher customer loyalty.

    These results are a testament to the power of a platform that is purpose-built for the enterprise, with an emphasis on scalability, security, and speed.

    The Path Forward

    The waves of AI will keep coming, and they are hard to predict. The key is to stop building isolated solutions and start building a foundation that can adapt to every new wave. A composable Enterprise AI Platform, acting as an operating system, provides this superpower. It allows you to realize value today, while being ready for whatever comes next.

    This is where the platform named DSW UnifyAI comes in. It is a composable Enterprise AI Platform with embedded intelligence. Its foundation is and will remain process orchestration, but it is expanding to all aspects of automation. Its key differentiators include:

    • Composability: An integrated yet flexible platform that seamlessly combines different technologies.
    • Embedded Intelligence: Features that fast-track development and allow for the orchestration of any AI technology, leading to reliable and secure autonomous orchestration.
    • Open Standards: The use of standards like BPMN and DMN to facilitate business-IT collaboration with one shared language.
    • Enterprise-Grade Scalability: A horizontally scalable, cloud-native, and highly resilient execution engine, battle-proven for mission-critical core processes.

    The era of AI experimentation is over. The time to operationalize has arrived. Smarter decisions with actionable intelligence.

  • From AI Adoption to AI Acceleration: What We’re Hearing on the Ground

    From AI Adoption to AI Acceleration: What We’re Hearing on the Ground

    In the past few months, something interesting has started happening in almost every conversation we’re having with enterprise leaders.

    The language has shifted.

    • From “Should we explore AI?” To “How fast can we scale it?”
    • And that single shift — from curiosity to conviction — changes everything.

    The AI Journey is Real, But It’s Not Linear

    Most enterprises we speak with are not starting from scratch. They’ve run pilots, tried a few PoCs, maybe even launched a use case or two in production.

    But here’s where it gets tricky: scaling that first success.

    It’s not that they lack intent. Or even ideas.

    It’s that every new use case starts to feel like reinventing the wheel:

    • New teams
    • New data pipelines
    • New infra challenges
    • New integration headaches

    That’s not scale — that’s repeat chaos.

    How do we make this “our AI journey” — not just another tech implementation?

    What’s Becoming Clear: Platform + Services is the Winning Formula

    If you’re in the trenches of AI adoption, you know this already: No single product will solve your problems. And no amount of consulting alone will make AI adoption sustainable.

    It has to be both:

    • A platform that gives you a repeatable foundation
    • Services that make that foundation real, contextual, and outcome-oriented

    This is not theory — this is the real-world formula that’s working.

    The smart enterprises aren’t just choosing tools.

    They’re choosing platforms that align with their business.

    And service teams that understand the domain, not just the tech.

    What Enterprises Are Telling Us They Want Whether it’s insurance, banking, logistics, or retail — the themes are consistent:

    – A way to move from one use case to many, without rework

    – Clear cost-benefit alignment from Day 1

    – No lock-ins — especially when it comes to data and models

    – Full transparency and control on how their AI is built and run

    • A partner that helps, not takes over

    – And above all, speed that doesn’t come at the cost of stability.

    Final Thought: AI Is No Longer “Next”

    We’ve crossed that phase.

    Now it’s about how fast, how sustainably, and how confidently you can scale it.

    Some will still stay stuck in experimentation.

    Others are already laying down their foundations to make AI an engine — not an experiment.

    If you’re in the second group, the real questions aren’t about whether AI works.

    They’re about how to make it work for your enterprise, your team, and your stack.

  • From Whispers of “Should We?” to a Roar of “How Fast?”: The AI Acceleration Imperative

    From Whispers of “Should We?” to a Roar of “How Fast?”: The AI Acceleration Imperative

    The air in enterprise leadership conversations has palpably shifted. The hesitant inquiries of “Should we explore AI?” have been decisively replaced by a resounding “How fast can we scale it?”. This single pivot, from mere curiosity to unwavering conviction, fundamentally alters the AI landscape.

    The AI journey, while undeniably real, is far from a linear ascent. Most organizations don’t start from a blank slate. They’ve dipped their toes in the water with pilots, navigated a few proofs of concept, and perhaps even launched a solitary use case into the live environment. But the crucial bottleneck emerges when attempting to replicate that initial success.

    It’s not a lack of ambition or even a shortage of innovative ideas that hinders progress. Instead, each new AI initiative feels like a Sisyphean task of reinvention: assembling fresh teams, constructing bespoke data pipelines, wrestling with novel infrastructure complexities, and untangling yet another web of integration challenges. This isn’t scalable growth; it’s a cycle of repetitive chaos.

    The dominant question echoing across boardrooms now is: “How do we inject predictability into this process?”

    The most critical and honest inquiries revolve around:

    • Building on Solid Ground: How do we prevent our AI initiatives from being built on shifting sands of uncertainty?
    • Exponential Velocity: How do we ensure that each subsequent use case is deployed with greater speed and efficiency than the last?
    • Trustworthy AI: How do we guarantee that our deployed models are rigorously governed, fully auditable, and inherently safe?
    • Unified Scalability: How do we architect a system that allows us to build once and then scale our AI capabilities with unwavering clarity?
    • Our Unique AI Identity: And, most importantly, how do we forge our distinct AI journey, rather than merely implementing another generic technology?

    The Unambiguous Answer: Platform + Services = Sustainable AI Power

    For those navigating the complexities of AI adoption, this truth has become self-evident:

    No standalone product can magically solve your AI challenges.

    And no amount of abstract consulting can, on its own, forge a sustainable AI future.

    The winning formula is a powerful synergy: 

    • A Robust Platform: Providing a repeatable and standardized foundation for all AI initiatives.
    • Strategic Services: Grounding that foundation in your specific context, driving tangible outcomes, and making the abstract real.

    This isn’t theoretical conjecture; it’s the proven equation driving success in the real world. Forward-thinking enterprises aren’t just selecting disparate tools; they are strategically choosing platforms that deeply align with their core business objectives. They are also partnering with service teams that possess a profound understanding of their industry, not just the underlying technology.

    The Unified Enterprise Demand: Clarity, Control, and Velocity

    Across diverse sectors – be it insurance, banking, logistics, or retail – a consistent set of demands is emerging:

    • Effortless Scalability: A clear pathway to move from isolated successes to widespread AI deployment without constant reinvention.
    • Tangible ROI: Clear and demonstrable cost-benefit alignment from the very outset of any AI project.
    • Freedom and Flexibility: No vendor lock-in, particularly concerning the crucial assets of data and AI models.
    • Unwavering Transparency and Control: Complete visibility and authority over how their AI is architected, built, and operated.
    • Strategic Partnership: A collaborator who empowers and guides, rather than dictates or takes over.
    • Sustainable Speed: The ability to accelerate AI initiatives without compromising stability or introducing undue risk.

    The Decisive Turning Point: AI Is Now

    The era of “next generation” AI is over. We have decisively crossed that threshold.

    The critical question now isn’t if AI works, but how swiftly, how sustainably, and how confidently you can scale its transformative power within your organization.

    Some will inevitably remain mired in perpetual experimentation. Others are already strategically laying the groundwork to transform AI from a series of isolated projects into a powerful, integrated engine of growth and innovation.

    If you belong to the latter group, your focus has rightly shifted. The fundamental questions about AI’s potential have been answered. Now, the vital inquiries center on how to tailor AI to the unique contours of your enterprise, empower your teams, and seamlessly integrate it into your existing technology stack.

    That’s the crucial conversation we’re here to facilitate.

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  • Disruption Is Constant — But Enterprise AI Demands Stability, Speed, and Scalability

    Disruption Is Constant — But Enterprise AI Demands Stability, Speed, and Scalability

    We’re living through a wave of AI innovation unlike anything before. Each week seems to bring a new generative AI (GenAI) model, a smarter agent, or a groundbreaking open-source tool. Disruption is no longer rare — it’s routine. 

    But inside the enterprise, the excitement of innovation meets the complexity of real-world execution. 

    Innovation Is Everywhere — Adoption Is the Challenge 

    It’s not that enterprises lack ambition or ideas. The real challenge is how to integrate, govern, and scale these innovations sustainably. 

    Enterprises aren’t just testing what AI can do anymore. They’re asking: 

    • How do we move AI use cases into production faster?
    • How can we scale from one use case to many — without starting over each time? 
    • How do we ensure trust, compliance, and control? 
    • How do we avoid building a patchwork of disconnected tools?

    The conversation is evolving from tools to systems of execution — where AI adoption becomes repeatable, manageable, and results-driven. 

    The Rise of the AI Platform Mindset 

    AI is no longer just another IT project. It’s becoming a strategic layer in how decisions are made, how customer experiences are designed, and how services are delivered. 

    That shift requires more than just toolkits or APIs. It demands enterprise AI platforms that are:

    • Modular and reusable
    • Governable within enterprise policies 
    • Integration-friendly with legacy environments
    • Open and composable for future innovation 

    Platforms win not just on features — but on alignment: across teams, tools, and outcomes. 

    From First Use Case to Fast-Track Execution 

    Despite AI’s promise, many organizations face a familiar roadblock: 
    The first use case takes months. The second one? Often feels like square one. 

    Governance hurdles, IT reviews, and siloed infrastructure can bring GenAI initiatives to a crawl.

    But when the right AI platform is in place: 
    • AI/ML use cases can reach production in weeks
    • GenAI copilots move from prototype to deployment in hours
    • Models, pipelines, and governance frameworks become reusable
    • Each iteration becomes faster, more cost-effective, and more scalable

    Speed is important — but scalability is everything. 

    The New Role of Services in Enterprise AI

    As platforms take center stage, services are transforming too. 

    It’s no longer just about building one-off AI solutions. It’s about: 

    • Orchestrating AI across business functions
    • Embedding it into enterprise systems 
    • Aligning everything from data architecture to regulatory compliance

    The future lies in a platform + services model — where enterprises gain technical capability and strategic alignment. One fuels the other. 

    What Enterprise Leaders Want From AI 

    As AI becomes a core part of digital transformation, leaders are aligning around five priorities:

    1. Faster time to production
    2. Repeatable, scalable AI deployment
    3. Built-in governance and compliance
    4. Modular, reusable components
    5. Ability to adopt new innovations — without chaos

    The goal is clear: AI that’s theirs, not another vendor’s roadmap.

    From Pilots to Systems of Execution 

    The enterprises gaining the most from AI aren’t the ones running dozens of pilots. 

    They’re the ones building systems of execution:

    • Where AI is part of the operating model
    • Where each success accelerates the next
    • Where innovation and governance co-exist
    • Where disruption is operationalized, not just admired

    Because in enterprise AI, production isn’t the end — it’s the beginning.  

    Final Word: It’s Not About What’s Next — It’s About What’s Repeatable 

    New GenAI models will keep coming. 
    New frameworks will trend.

    But success in enterprise AI won’t be about chasing what’s next — it’ll be about operationalizing what works.

    The enterprises that lead won’t be those who rode every wave. 
    They’ll be the ones who built the architecture to ride any wave — with trust, speed, and control.  

  • The Future of Enterprise AI: Why Platforms Will Define the Next Wave of AI Adoption

    The Future of Enterprise AI: Why Platforms Will Define the Next Wave of AI Adoption

    AI is at an inflection point. As enterprises move from pilot experiments to large-scale deployments, one thing is clear: the way AI is built, deployed, and operationalized needs a fundamental shift.

    Open-source AI has been the backbone of AI innovation—powering everything from foundational models to domain-specific advancements. It has enabled rapid experimentation and research, allowing businesses to explore AI without constraints. However, now as AI adoption needs to accelerates from experimentation to production, enterprises require a structured, scalable, and predictable approach to execution.

    AI Adoption Is Growing, But the Path to Production and Scale Is Still Complex

    Organizations are not struggling with AI innovation; they are struggling with AI execution. The challenge is not just building AI models but ensuring they integrate seamlessly into business processes, deliver measurable impact, and remain cost-effective at scale.

    Key hurdles enterprises face in AI adoption include:

    • Fragmentation of AI solutions – Different teams use different AI stacks, leading to inefficiencies in scaling.
    • Unpredictability in AI outcomes – AI models need continuous adaptation to remain accurate and effective.
    • Governance, compliance, and explainability – Regulated industries need full traceability of AI decisions.
    • Infrastructure complexity – AI workloads require flexible deployment across cloud, on-prem, and hybrid environments.

    As AI moves from experimentation to large-scale business transformation, enterprises require a unified approach to orchestrate, manage, and scale AI workloads efficiently.

    The Shift Towards Enterprise AI Platforms

    Over the past decade, enterprise software has evolved from fragmented, best-of-breed tools to platform-based solutions. AI is following the same trajectory.

    AI in enterprises cannot remain a collection of disjointed models and tools—it needs to function as a cohesive, scalable system that integrates with existing infrastructure, data ecosystems, and governance frameworks.

    A robust AI platform should:

    • Enable end-to-end AI execution – From data ingestion to model deployment and continuous learning.
    • Standardize AI workflows – Ensuring repeatability, governance, and scalability.
    • Support hybrid & multi-cloud deployment – Giving enterprises full flexibility over where AI runs.
    • Provide explainability & compliance – Making AI decisions transparent and auditable.
    • Eliminate vendor lock-in – Allowing enterprises to control their AI roadmap, infrastructure, and costs.

    Why Enterprises Need AI Platforms Now

    Organizations are leveraging AI for process automation, predictive analytics, customer intelligence, risk management, and decision optimization. However, many AI initiatives remain fragmented and fail to scale across business functions.

    For AI to drive true transformation, it must:
    • Be production-ready from day one – AI models should integrate directly into business workflows without long development cycles.
    • Enable dynamic decision-making – AI should adapt to real-time user interactions, operational changes, and risk evaluations.
    • Ensure compliance and governance – AI-powered decisions must be fully auditable and explainable.
    • Scale across multiple AI/ML and GenAI use cases – A platform approach ensures seamless execution across different AI-driven processes.

    Building an AI Platform for the Future

    The synergy between open-source AI and enterprise AI platforms is redefining how businesses adopt and scale AI. Open-source AI fosters innovation, but enterprises need structured execution frameworks to make AI predictable, secure, and production-ready.

    The future of AI adoption will be shaped by platforms that:
    • Leverage open-source AI with enterprise-grade reliability – Bringing the best of open frameworks into a structured, scalable system.
    • Enable end-to-end AI lifecycle management – From data processing to AI model execution and monitoring.
    • Adopt a GenAI-first approach with explainability and governance – Ensuring AI decisions are transparent, auditable, and compliant.
    • Operate in a no vendor-lock environment – Giving enterprises the flexibility to build AI on their own terms.

    Breaking the Barriers to Enterprise AI Adoption

    AI has immense potential, but its true impact is realized when it moves from isolated experiments to real-world execution at scale. Enterprises do not need more AI tools—they need a structured, predictable way to adopt AI across their business.

    As AI adoption accelerates, enterprises must move beyond fragmented solutions and embrace platform-driven approaches that provide scale, security, and governance. AI will not be defined by isolated models but by how businesses execute AI at scale with confidence, control, and transparency.

    For enterprises looking to scale AI with predictability and impact, the conversation is shifting—from experimenting with AI to executing AI with structure, efficiency, and real-world value.

  • Getting started with machine learning algorithms: Linear Regression

    Getting started with machine learning algorithms: Linear Regression

    In supervised machine learning, there is a plethora of machine learning models like linear regression, logistic regression, decision tree and others. we use these models to resolve classification or regression problems, and ensemble learning is a part of supervised learning that gives us models that are built using several base models. Random forest is one of those ensemble learning models that are popular in the data science field for its high performance.

    Technically, random forest models are built on top of decision trees and we have already covered the basics of a decision tree in one of our articles, so we recommend reading the article once to understand this article’s topic clearly. In this article, we will talk about random forests using the following points.

    Table of content

    • What is Random Forest?
    • How Does a Random Forest Work?
    • Important Features
    • Important Hyperparameters
    • Code Example
    • Pros and Cons of Random Forest

    What is Random Forest?

    Random forest is a supervised machine-learning algorithm that comes under the ensemble learning technique. In supervised machine learning, a random forest can be used to resolve both classification and regression problems.

    As discussed above that, it comes under the ensemble learning technique, so it works on top of many decision trees. We can say that decision trees are the base model of a random forest. The algorithm simply builds many decision trees on different data samples, and using the majority vote system solves the classification problem. In the case of regression, it uses the average of the decision trees.

    How does a Random Forest Work?

    When we talk about the working of the random forest, we can say that it gives outcomes by ensembling the results of many decision trees. Here if we talk about a classification problem, each decision tree predicts an outcome and whatever the class gets majority votes comes out as the final result of a random forest. Let’s take a look at the below image.

    When we talk about the working of the random forest, we can say that it gives outcomes by ensembling the results of many decision trees. Here if we talk about a classification problem, each decision tree predicts an outcome and whatever the class gets majority votes comes out as the final result of a random forest. Let’s take a look at the below image.

    The above image also gives the intuition behind the ensemble learning technique, where the final prediction is made by combining the results of several other models. The ensemble learning technique can be followed using two ways:

    1. Bagging: this way, we divide data into various subsets and train the base models like decision trees in a random forest, and the majority vote for any class comes out as the final result.
    2. Boosting: this way, we combine weak learners with strong learners and make a sequence of the model so that the final model is most accurate amongst every learner. For example, XG boost and ADA Boost models.

    Random forest in ensemble learning uses the bagging method. We can say that every decision tree under the random forest uses a few samples from the whole training data to get trained and give predictions. Let’s talk about the steps involved in training the random forest algorithm.

    Steps involved

    1. First, it extracts n number of subsets from the dataset with k number of data points that we call n subsets.
    2. n number of decision trees are constructed to get trained using n subsets.
    3. Each decision tree gives predictions.
    4. Final predictions are generated using the majority voting system for the classification problem and an averaging system for the regression problem.

    Using the above four steps working of a random forest gets completed. Next, let’s discuss the important features of a random forest.

    Important features

    1. Highly immune to dimensionality: Since all data features are not considered in the making of decision trees, the whole random forest gives high performance even in a situation where data is high-dimensional.
    2. Diversity: every decision tree uses some of the features from the data. That’s why the training procedure becomes different for the different decision trees. At final, we get more optimum results.
    3. Data split: while making a random forest, we don’t really need to spit data in train and test because there will always be some percentage of data unknown for a decision tree.
    4. Stable: random forests are stable algorithms when modelled because the majority voting or averaging system is used to make the final prediction.
    5. Parallelization: as we know, every individual decision tree uses a part of the main data. It makes full use of the CPU to train random forests.
    6. No overfitting: as the final results from the random forest come from the majority voting or averaging system and the decision tree uses subsets to get trained, there are fewer chances of overfitting.

    Important Hyperparameters

    In the above we have discussed the working and features of random forests, here we will discuss the important hyperparameters of any random forest using which we can control the random forest while increasing its performance and making it’s working or calculation faster.

    1. n_estimators- The number of decision trees required to build the random forest.
    2. max_features- Maximum number of features that random forest will use from data to split the data.
    3. mini_sample_leaf — minimum number of leaves is required to split the decision tree node.
    4. n_jobs — we use it to speed up the calculation of random forest because it tells the number of processors a system needs to train the model.
    5. random_state- just like for other models, it controls the randomness of the sample.

    Code Example

    In the above discussion, we have seen how random forest work and their important hyperparameters. Now after knowing this, we need to know how it works using any tool. So here we will look at the simple implementation of the random forest using the python programming language.

    We will use randomly generated data and the sklearn library in this implementation. So let’s start with generating data.

    from sklearn.datasets import make_classification
    X,y = make_classification(n_samples = 2000, n_features = 6, n_informative = 3)
    print(‘data features n’,X)
    print(‘data_classes n’, y)

    Output:

    Here we can see features and classes of randomly generated data. In the making of data, we have generated 2000 samples that have 6 features and one target variable.

    Let’s build a model

    from sklearn.ensemble import RandomForestClassifier
    clf = RandomForestClassifier(max_depth = 4, random_state = 42)

    Here we have created an object named clf that consists of a random forest classifier. Let’s train the model.

     

    clf.fit(X,y)
    print(‘count of the decision trees :’,len(clf.estimators_

    Output:

    Here we can see that 100 decision trees are under the random forest. Now we can draw a decision tree from our random forest using the following lines of code:

    import matplotlib.pyplot as plt

    from sklearn import tree

    plt.figure(figsize=(12, 10

    tree.plot_tree(clf.estimators_[0],max_depth = 2)

    plt.show()

    Output:

    Here we have implemented a random forest, and to increase the explainability, Now we can draw a decision tree from a random forest using the following lines of code:

    print(clf.predict([[0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0]]

    print(clf.predict([[1, 0, 1, 0, 1, 1]]


    Output:

    Now results from the model are in front of us and this is how we can implement a basic random forest. Let’s take a look at the pros and cons of the random forest algorithm.

    Pros and Cons of Random Forest

    Pros

    1. We can use it for both classification and regression problems.
    2. It does not overfit.
    3. It can also work with data that contains null values.
    4. High-performing with high dimensional data.
    5. It maintains diversity in the results.
    6. Highly stable.

    Cons

    1. Random forest is a highly complex algorithm.
    2. Training time is more because it takes more time to calculate, develop and train decision trees.

    Final words

    Under the series of articles, this article consisted the information about the random forest, which is a machine learning algorithm used to resolve problems that come under supervised learning. In the article, we have discussed the what, why and how of random forests. Using an example we looked at its implementation. Looking at the pros and cons of this model, we can say that it has such features and functionality that gives us higher accuracy. Still, before using this model we should understand the basic concept behind the model so that we can tune it appropriately.

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  • Introduction to Data Orchestration

    Introduction to Data Orchestration

    According to a report by Gartner, more than 87% of organisations are not capable of utilising data for business intelligence and data analytics. The one reason behind this can be the inability to extract the right data from the data silos. Since these silos are data tables and restricts data to be migrated to other locations, data migration becomes a really complex task.

    Also, the organisations have many more operations to handle, they lack in data governance. There can be various scenarios which restrict companies or organisations to extract and analyse their data. Data orchestration is one of the solutions that helps in the process of taking siloed data out from multiple data storages or data locations, combining and organising it, and automating data flow to data analysis tools. In this article, we will have an introduction to data orchestration. The points to be discussed in the article are listed below.

    Table of content

    • What is data orchestration?
    • Need for data orchestration
    • Parts of data orchestration
    • Challenges being overcome by data orchestration
    • Benefits of data orchestration

    What is Data Orchestration?

    Data orchestration is a process of automating data flow right from bringing all the data together to preparing and making it available for data analysis. In a primary term, we can say that data orchestration is a process of breaking down the high data storage in managed ways. The main motive behind the data orchestration should be to automate and streamline data to enhance the company’s data-driven decision-making.

    Some software/platforms like Apache Airflow, Metaflow, K2view, and Prefect help execute data orchestration by connecting storage systems, and data analysis tools can easily access the data. However, these software or platforms are completely new technology and don’t act like a data storage system.

    Talking about the traditional ways, they may involve the following time-intensive steps of preparing data from big storage:

    1. Use custom scripts to extract data in CSV, Excel, JSON or database formats.
    2. Validation and cleaning of the data.
    3. Data conversion is required form.
    4. Load into the target destination.

    Data orchestration is a way to exclude these time-intensive processes from the path of data preparation.

    Need for Data Orchestration

    The above-given data processing steps may be exemplary when the number of data systems is low. Still, when it comes to big businesses with multiple data systems, data orchestration becomes ideal. Using this technology, we don’t need to combine multiple data systems together. Instead, data orchestration provides access to the required data in the required format and at the time necessary.

    Using data orchestration, data available across multiple data sources can be accessed easily and quickly. It is also better because we don’t require any central data storage to handle large amounts of data.

    We may think of data orchestration as ETL(extract, transform, load process) but ETL has a specific written script to follow and process the data. Data orchestration is more on automation of the steps of ETL. There are a few parts of data orchestration. Let’s take a look at them.

    Parts of Data Orchestration

    Data orchestration can be segregated into 4 parts:

    1. Preparation: This part includes the process of checking the integrity and correctness of data. Also labelling the data, providing designation to data and including third-party data with existing data can be completed in this part.
    2. Transformation: this part includes the data conversion and formatting. For example names of people can be written in different formats like [surname] [name] or [name] [surname]. So here, we are required to make all these in the same format.
    3. Cleaning: This part includes data cleaning processes, identification and correcting the corrupt, inaccurate, nan, duplicated and outlier data.
    4. Synchronising: This part includes continuous updations in the way of data from data source to destinations so that consistency can be maintained. This part is similar to your photos, videos and contacts synced on all your devices using google drive.

    Challenges being overcome by data orchestration

    Data orchestration came into the picture when handling big data became more complex. There are various challenges people are facing while handling big data using ETL. These challenges include:

    • Disparate data sources: In large organisations, when data comes from multiple data sources, it doesn’t come in the analysis-ready situation. Here, data orchestration plays an essential role by automating the data maintenance and quality checking process.
    • Data Silos: There are higher chances of getting required data siloed in such a location or organisation from where accessing data for the subsequent processes is complex. Here orchestration helps in breaking down the silos and makes data more accessible. This breakdown of silos is done with the help of DAG(direct acyclic graph) that represents the relationship between tasks and data systems.
    • Data validation: As data literate, we know that data cleaning and organising are time-consuming processes. Data orchestration helps avoid such time consumption when data is required for analysis.

    Benefits of Data Orchestration

    Data orchestration can provide the following benefits:

    • Scalability: Being a cost-effective way to automate data synchronisation across data silos, Data Orchestration helps organisations to scale data use.
    • Monitoring: Data orchestration enables alerts and monitoring systems within it and that helps data engineers to monitor data flow across the systems where ETL utilises complex scripting and disparate monitoring standards.
    • Data governance: Orchestration helps users monitor customer data because the data gets collected throughout a system. For example, handling data of different geographical regions with different privacy and security rules and regulation.
    • Real-Time information analysis: One of the major benefits of data orchestration is that it allows real-time data analysis. Also till now, it is the quickest way to extract and process data.

    Final words

    In this blog, we have seen how data orchestration is making data more useful in accurate, efficient and quick way. Because of data orchestration, it has become common to leave our data fragmented and in silos. Along with this we went through its parts and looked at how every part stands and works. Since this technology has come in boom around the year 2010, it is in a developing phase where we can observe changes frequently. It won’t be surprising for us to see ETL be replaced by data orchestration in future. So keeping track of the development of such technology becomes very necessary for those who are dependent on data.

  • How is Artificial Intelligence Advancing the Insurance domain?

    How is Artificial Intelligence Advancing the Insurance domain?

    We have already witnessed the application of artificial intelligence in every sector, whether the industry is BFSI, medical or agriculture. Talking about the insurance sector, artificial intelligence is deeply integrated into it. Most sensitive use cases in the insurance domain like claims, distribution, and underwriting can be resolved using AI systems. According to the FBI’s report, the insurance industry is filled with more than 7000 insurance companies, and the collection of this industry goes more than $1 trillion annually. These statistics tell how big this industry is and survival in this industry requires highly advanced and competitive behaviour from companies. Here AI comes into the picture and ensures the company is performing well in every aspect. In this article, we will look at the significant use-cases of AI in the insurance sector, and the major advancements that AI can provide in Insurance Domain to be discussed are listed below.

    Table of Content

    1. Faster Claims Processing
    2. Accelerated claim adjudication
    3. Document Digitization
    4. Accurate Underwriting Risk Management
    5. Insurance Fraud Detection and Prevention
    6. Customer Services

    Faster Claims Processing

    Artificial intelligence-enabled products are best known as an option for the human workforce where repetitive and attention-demanding tasks are required to be completed. Such products perform such tasks faster and efficiently and drive the best ROI.

    For example, manual claim processings are prone to inefficiencies and errors because of extensive paperwork and digitised processing. On the other hand, a trained AI model becomes efficient and prone to a lesser error rate. According to a report by McKinsey&co, it is found that manual claim management can increase the premium revenue by up to 50–60%.

    The significant changes in insurance companies are found in the year 2021 when they plan to achieve better operational efficiency using the technologies such as:

    • AI
    • RPA
    • IoT

    With the emergence of the above-given advanced technologies in the insurance sector, RPA and IoT have become two significant points for data collection. Telematics and computers enabled in a car, fitness trackers, and healthcare devices are IoT devices that help in the generation of comprehensive data of customers that makes decision-making easy.

    At the same time, AI comes into the picture, which is an advanced means to process extensive and comprehensive data. As the data volume increases, AI models’ capacity also increases and the chances of errors decreases.

    AI advances the claim settlement procedures by streamlining the processing of incoming data. Data processing in claim settlement can include scanning, interpretation and decision-making. AI models have proven themselves best in such workflow, and as the data volume increases, they also improve themselves without requiring explicit programming and human intervention.

    The intervention of AI can make claim processing advanced in the following use-cases:

    • Claim routing
    • Claim sorting
    • Fraudulent detection
    • Claim management audit

    Fukoku mutual life is leveraging the AI models for the claim processing. The AI-enabled application can access all customers’ medical files and mine information out of them to calculate optimised payouts. After this calculation, the human agents are required to provide approvals.

    Accelerated claim adjudication

    Claim adjudication is a process where insurance companies decide between yes or no, and how much a claim needs to be settled for any case. However, this all process goes through a cyclic plan whether the insurer or customer wants to execute the cycle faster.

    Using AI models, this planning and execution become easier and much faster than manual processing. Many AI models have already been developed, and many are in the development process to perform different inspection tasks. They can be used for car, property, and human inspections during medical claims.

    AI intervention in claim adjudication is a compulsion to perform such inspection quickly, accurately, and honestly. Hardware and models involved in AI systems work for data collection and verification so that process of evidence gathering and appraisal sessions can be completed much faster and safer.

    For example, an AI-enabled system can use a camera to take pictures of objects, and a computer vision model can optimise these pictures to assess damages more efficiently and provide an estimated repair cost. These models can be utilised with drones to perform building damage, crop damage and industrial equipment damage inspection.

    AI models just require data to inspect and analyse such things, which can be collected using equipment like cameras and IoT devices. After the models and systems are verified, reports can be sent to an engaged inspector.

    Auto-insurer Tokio Marine is a company that has deployed such systems for examining and appraising damaged vehicles. After verifying them with the AI model, they just collect images and process the settlement.

    Document Digitization

    This is not only a use case for the insurance domain but also for domains like banking, education and finance. This use case requires optical character recognising systems to extract information from documents and pictures. This extracted information then gets collected and optimised for decision-making.

    It is majorly found that insurers are collecting the data in the form of paper like paper-based form, printed documents, and ID cards. At the top levels, it becomes a prominent issue in the management of these papers. In this scenario, OCR can be the game changer and provide high operational efficiencies. Also, OCR can reduce efforts of re-typing information and human mistakes.

    This not only enhances the accuracy of work but also allows the human workforce to engage in productive tasks. Furthermore, the management issues with papers are resolved because OCR can extract information, and after translating them into digital form, it goes into the databases in a managed way.

    In one of our articles, we have seen that such processes enhance the new customer onboarding and the KYC processes. It only takes a very low to record all the mandatory information of humans from the documents using the AI systems.

    According to a report published by EY Insurance Industry Outlook 2021:

    • 69% of existing users want to buy insurance online.
    • 58% of users consider the online process of buying life insurance, and
    • 61% of users consider the online process of buying health insurance.

    AXA CZ/SK is one of the significant examples which uses deep learning models to improve the data ecosystems and efficiency and reduce the cost of human labour.

    Accurate Underwriting Risk Management

    In the insurance sector, underwriting stands for risk evaluation of insuring people or assets. When someone is applying for insurance, underwriters need to make different risk analysis strategies and policies precisely. These processes become very complex for a human to perform.

    As we know, AI models can be trained to perform more accurate decision-making when billions of data points are collected and fed to them. In addition, these systems can assess insurance applications against these training data points. They may also help the underwriters to get more clarity on relevant risk factors associated with a customer profile.

    Again a large amount of paperwork is required for underwriting that can be reduced using computer vision models with IoT devices. This way, we can record assets more carefully and faster or in real-time. This can also be utilised for eliminating in-person inspections over time.

    For example, by connecting a GIS data stream to analysis systems, we can enhance over-time inspection of properties while no in-person meetings are required. Also, we can adjust policies accordingly.

    All collected data can also be utilised in the following predictive analysis:

    • levels of degradation,
    • automatic defect inspections,
    • predict potential failure rates

    ICICI Lombard is one such application that helps in the cashless claims settlement process and insurance underwriting.

    Insurance Fraud Detection and Prevention

    According to a report on the official website of the united states government, the total cost of fraudulent activities in the insurance sector is more than $40 billion per year. And as we know, more than 7000 companies are serving insurance facilities in the USA. this amount of fraudulent activities can be compared to the plague.

    Looking at the figures one can estimate, it becomes necessary to apply such systems to the traditional techniques that can detect and prevent fraudulent activities. Nowadays, AI systems are developed to complete this necessity and augment human analysts’ judgement by providing them with highly optimised information.

    Since machine learning models can identify and optimise patterns from the information, they can be considered strong contenders for extracting out-of-the-ordinary behaviours.

    AI systems specially developed for fraud detection help in a quick and automatic background check of the customers either in the onboarding stages or in claim processing. They can also help estimate associated risk with any person or their assets.

    AXA is one of those examples of insurance companies that applied AI-enabled applications to prevent fraudulent activities. The applied software can detect distinct patterns based on computer behaviour and employee network.

    Customer Services

    Nowadays, AI has become one of the most valuable tools for representing a company’s competitive nature in the industry. Of course, that directly belongs to the marketing purposes, and for this also, AI can be utilised in any domain, not only in the insurance domain.

    Since the insurance domain is the top data holding domain, AI for customer services and marketing in the insurance domain can work better than in the other domain. AI is a crucial player in customer onboarding in the BFIS sectors. As AI has the power to optimise data, it can be used to predict more competitive prices or offers to enhance business models as per consumer demands.

    The only need to apply for the AI program here is to understand the trends with customers; for this, we may require to streamline the data collection and analysis on different channels. The outcome insights can be used for customer onboarding and product and policy designing.

    ZhongAn is a Chinese insurance company which utilises AI models and analytics to introduce innovative products and policies. For example, one of their policy insures against cracked mobile screens and shipping return products.

    Final words

    One thing which has been optimised in many reports is that COVID-19 has put this industry under pressure. AI has managed to hold the industry’s potential by improving operational efficiency, cost management and decision-making accuracy. Also, as the size of this industry is increasing, it won’t be surprising to see AI resolving many more use-cases of it. We have seen how this industry uses AI from enhancing operational efficiencies to increasing customer satisfaction.