The Business Challenge
The business situation the organisation faced before the project began.
Some companies like to congratulate their staff who have birthday, so they ask the HR department to make the birthday card everyday and send it out to all departments. Which takes around 30-60 minutes depending on the amount of people who have birthdays.
How the Solution Was Delivered
Discovery, design, development, testing and rollout — the journey, not the tooling.
- 1Setting up a subdomain within a server domain
- 2Setting up a Rest API between the database server and my app
- 3Retrieving and organizing the data
- 4Putting all the names and departments into the birthday card
- 5Set up an email sender with SMTP
- 6Developing send to all departments the cards
Business Outcomes & Impact
The measurable outcomes from the underlying AI Deployment — with the story behind them.
Reduced the amount of work for HR department and saved their time by 12.5% daily.
Business Outcome Categories
The story behind the numbers
HR department saves significant amount of time on generating and sending out those birthday cards, and focuses on other more important tasks.
Lessons Learned
What surprised the team, what worked well, and what would be done differently.
- Learn how to code.
- Learned how important is for business to automate even some really simple tasks.
- Learned what I can do to improve this system even further with AI.