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Background
C3 AI is a company that provides enterprise AI software and applications to help businesses, governments, and other organizations with digital transformation. It is a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) company that enables enterprise-scale AI applications with the goal of offering “significant social and economic benefit.”
If that seems like an unusually broad description, that’s because it is. Whether through its core group of pre-built SaaS applications in the C3 AI Suite, or a low- to no-code custom solution made by the customer using the C3 AI Ex Machina product, C3.ai’s clients can make the most of its flexible AI platform in countless ways. But more broadly speaking, C3.ai has four primary categories of software solutions: The C3 AI Suite, a comprehensive platform for rapid custom development and operation of Enterprise AI applications.
C3 AI Applications, comprised of pre-built SaaS applications available for rapid deployment in previously identified high-value use cases, including applications for anti-money laundering, energy management, fraud detection, inventory optimization, intelligence analysis, predictive maintenance, workforce analytics, and yield optimization.
C3 AI CRM: An industry-specific AI customer relationship management (CRM) solution built through a partnership with Microsoft and Adobe — and an unmistakable challenge to Salesforce’s dominance in the CRM industry.
C3 AI Ex Machina, a low- to no-code AI analytics and data science platform aimed at both small and large enterprises alike. As of last month, C3 AI Ex Machina already has more than 25 organizations and companies using it, including Con Edison, Stanford Medicine, and the HIVE Lab at George Washington University.
C3.ai’s “special sauce,” so to speak, lies not so much with the cutting-edge AI algorithms contained in the products above, but more in the extensible platform it has built to help enterprises achieve digital transformation using AI whether at small, medium, or massive scale.
These are systems that are both easy and timely to set up for enterprise clients relative to custom-programmed alternatives — taking as little as four weeks rather than several months — and also which have already proved capable of effectively processing and generating actionable insight from petabytes (or millions of gigabytes) of data on a daily basis if need be.
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