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10 The SPiCE Magazine • January 2019
TECHNOLOGY WITH GUSTO
LEADING THE
CONTENT SPACE
THROUGH SMARTER
TECHNOLOGY
Data and information have been dubbed
the “new gold”. Clearly, it is inevitable for
content-driven businesses to develop
dynamic technologies that will expand the Jishnu Gupta
scope of their solutions and allow them to Chief Technology Officer
penetrate new markets.
SPi’s journey to success has always been The advantage of adopting such platforms is
powered by innovative technology solutions two-way: SPi Global significantly improves its
and process re-engineering. In the past year, cost efficiency and creates a sticky relationship
we have witnessed cutting edge web-based with clients.
products and workflows supported by AI-driven
automations, steering the company’s global “If it’s a purely service-based work, clients
business towards digital transformation. would just negotiate the price and turn to
another supplier if we don’t agree on pricing.
According to SPi Global Chief of Technology But, if we tie up through a platform relationship
Jishnu Gupta, the standardization of SPi’s tools and host these products for the clients, they
and processes, and the development of will be required to use it more as the volume
platform and product-based solutions, are key increases due to pricing benefits. It incentivizes
to transforming our business and to becoming clients to contract us for a longer term as we
our clients’ technology partner of choice. continue to improve the automation of the
products,” he explains.
In 2018, SPi Global’s Tech team introduced a
suite of cutting-edge, web-based platforms Integrating artificial intelligence
and products to improve greater operational
efficiencies. As automation becomes increasingly crucial in
today’s businesses, creating advanced solutions
“Books, journals, and higher education are a that integrate artificial intelligence (AI) becomes
huge volume of our business. Through a key focus for content transformation. Gone are
platform-based solutions, we can drive scale the days of manual typewritten work. With
and volume, minimize dependency on SPi Global’s intuitive and automated platforms,
operations, and ramp up more quickly. We are content teams can now perform and complete
also decommissioning a lot of legacy tools and tasks with less time and greater precision.
workflows and moving towards a standard
workflow and product-based solution.” Among these solutions are SPiZone™, one of SPi’s
content-extracting frontrunners that integrates
AI-based models to drive automation; and RAZOR,
