There is evidence that in repetitive tasks, speech recognition systems make fewer errors than humans do. Call centre automation also cuts queuing time. The call centre automation market is leading the take-up of speech recognition services.
IBM is embedding automation features across its existing products, including servers, databases, middleware and systems management software. But IT providers use different labels for this automation and are addressing various aspects of the overall...
The NHS' £6bn IT programme will merely provide the kind of bog standard automation familiar to the private sector for a decade by excluding innovative small and medium sized IT vendors, according to new research.
He warned: "With so many parties involved and such aggressive implementation timescales, the risks for the international community and individual companies are substantial - systems errors could affect revenues and costs for banks, and...
The report said: "The increased use of electronic messaging, automated confirmation generation, affirmation at the point-of-trade and electronic matching will be large factors in not only lowering processing costs but minimisng operational risks...
The DWP said while many benefits are linked to each other, business processes are not fully automated so errors can creep in as staff have to make calculations offline. In the 2005/06 financial year roughly £1.9bn was overpaid by the Department for...