Unlocking AI to Drive Efficiency and Customer Engagement


Sigli & Educational Solutions PROVIDER

OVERVIEW

Sigli upgraded the Educational Solutions Provider’s infrastructure with the latest AI functionality, leading to a sizable boost in backend efficiency, user engagement, and positive reviews.

Snapshot

15 % Uplift in User Engagement

20% More Active Users

40% Increase In Positive Testimonials

5X Boost to Core Backend Perfomance

About the Client:

Industry: 


Technology services for people with disabilities

Location: 


Belgium and the Netherlands

Size: 


Medium enterprise (100+ employees)

Client Overview

The client is a collection of companies driven by a mission to help people with disabilities and additional needs thrive through accessible digital platforms. Based in Belgium, it has over 1,000,000 users and employs 100 people.


The client has three brands. One of them focuses on mathematics teaching for young people, another provides tools for those with hearing and visual impairments, and the third is a school e-learning solution.

The Problem

Missing Out on the Opportunities of AI

Leadership at the Educational Solutions Provider was keen to take advantage of the latest AI and machine learning (ML) functionality. They saw its clear potential to drive internal efficiency and improve the customer experience across all of its solutions.



Equally, the client knew integrating AI into its services was essential from a competitive standpoint. Even in 2022, AI was being added to educational tools at a rapidly increasing rate. Ignoring this trend would have been a definite path to disgruntled users and a loss of market share.

Connected infrastructure with recording devices

The brief was ambitious in its scope. The client company wanted comprehensive AI integration across all of their companies and every product in their portfolio.

At Sigli, we knew this would require a comprehensive strategy. We needed to pave the way for both a complete technical solution and a new style of interacting with and thinking about AI-based workflows.

The client approached Sigli to build AI functionality in three areas:

Core backend functionality

AI-based customer features like personalization and smart tutoring

Customer service helpdesk

Services Provided by Sigli for the company

Custom Software Development
API Development
ML development
MLOps services
AI solution architecting
Data analysis services
DevOps managed service
Application quality assurance
Cloud engineering services

Technologies employed included

Project Team and Management Overview

The Development Team

The team was made up of four AI engineers, three full-stack engineers, three frontend engineers, and two quality assurance specialists, alongside a solutions Architect and Delivery Manager.

Communication

Communication was through a variety of regular in-person and virtual meetings. Email and messaging was ongoing throughout the project.

Project Management

We used the scrum framework for project management with a Product Owner (PO) for oversight and communication. Regular rituals in the form of daily meetings, sprint planning, and retrospectives were a key part of our approach.

The Results: Complete AI and ML Functionality

Here’s what the project looked like at completion:

Integrated business analytics: a central platform that combines data from multiple sources and provides a high-level overview of operational and customer activity. The platform stores, processes and analyses data, providing detail-rich insights that assist with decision making.

Full-feature ML solution: a multifaceted ML solution that includes predictive analytics, sentiment analysis, progress tracking, automation of manual tasks for teachers, and more.

Product ecosystem management: an integrated system that makes it possible for different products to work independently while sharing data.

AI enrichment: AI functionality for every product based on their roles in the customer ecosystem and an understanding of features that research showed  would best serve customers.

AI architecture: full software architecture that meets the best standards of educational systems in the Netherlands, Belgium, and internationally.

Quality assurance: testing of functionality and precision of ML outputs both throughout the development process and after deployment.

If I have just one Sigli developer on my project, I have all the intelligence I need in the company. Sigli’s deeply collaborative culture means mutual assistance and knowledge sharing is on hand whenever there’s a significant challenge.

William

Head of AI, Educational Solutions Company

Are You Looking for an Experienced Dev Team?

Whether you need an online portal or IAM system like the one we built for this accessibility solutions provider, or your project has a different scope, Sigli can help. We take on projects of all sizes and levels of complexity. Get in touch today to discuss your needs.

Say hi!

Hanna

Regional Business Lead, Benelux

Sigli Belgium

hanna.zakharava@sigli.com