Published Dec 2, 2024

Celigo as the foundation for AI-driven workflows: Solving business problems in new ways

Kim Loughead

Vice President, Product Marketing

Kim Loughead
Celigo as the foundation for AI-driven workflows

AI is redefining how businesses achieve efficiency and innovation. However, to unlock its full potential, companies must integrate data from diverse applications, ensuring both accuracy and accessibility. These integrations eliminate data silos, enabling AI to access comprehensive, reliable information.

By leveraging AI-powered automation across various departments, including sales, marketing, customer experience, and customer success, Celigo demonstrates the powerful potential of AI when data from multiple applications is connected to power innovative GPT models, whether fine-tuned or proprietary.

In this article, we explore Celigo’s AI use cases, focusing on how data from various applications can be fed into advanced language models to create insights and innovate processes, driving unprecedented efficiency in sales, marketing, customer experience, and customer success.

There is no AI without connecting APIs

AI’s true potential relies on seamless connectivity. Models become significantly more powerful when they can access diverse, high-quality data. While application-specific AI offers value, it is constrained by the limited scope of its internal data. No single system contains the comprehensive organizational data needed to train a GPT model capable of driving large-scale business transformation.

Realizing this potential requires access to varied data types—customer interactions, sales records, support tickets, and operational metrics—to provide AI with the context and insights necessary for meaningful impact.

By integrating platforms like Slack, Zendesk, JIRA, and Snowflake, Celigo enables AI to break free from the limitations of individual applications and deliver transformative results.

Celigo iPaaS serves as the foundational platform that enables AI to connect the dots between interactions occurring across various systems, generating impactful insights. By unifying data from multiple sources, Celigo ensures that AI solutions can draw from a complete organizational context, ultimately delivering more actionable intelligence.

The role of AI in revolutionizing customer engagement

Effectively engaging customers and providing valuable information can be challenging. Teams often struggle to process and leverage the vast amounts of data generated from customer interactions, intent data, and call recordings. AI offers a powerful solution, enabling teams to transform diverse data sources into actionable insights.

Below are some of the use cases Celigo has implemented to enhance its ability to effectively support customers and prospects.

AI for meeting transcript analysis: A key sales enabler

Meeting recordings can be an untapped source of customer insights, key buying criteria, and competitive information, but manual analysis is time-consuming and error-prone.

By using AI to analyze meeting transcripts, Celigo achieves the following:

  • Effectively identifies and summarizes key topics, customer challenges, and solutions discussed for the sales team.
  • Automatically crafts a personalized follow-up email and recommends content for sales reps to review and send.
  • Updates the Salesforce opportunity with the call summary, including updating key fields like the application endpoints the customer wants to connect.

These AI-powered capabilities enable Celigo’s sales teams to focus on building meaningful customer relationships instead of spending hours sifting through transcripts. The extracted data also assists in strategizing future engagement by aligning outreach efforts with customer needs and their position in the buying journey.

Celigo measures the success of these efforts through increased engagement, reduced sales cycles, and increased win rates.

AI in customer success: Personalized engagement at scale

AI-driven personalization is another critical aspect of Celigo’s strategy. By using Celigo iPaaS to feed customer usage data, customer profile data, and user behaviors into a Customer Engagement GPT, Account Managers can create highly personalized messages.

For instance:

  • Targeted emails are sent to customers based on their engagement levels and usage patterns, encouraging them to explore new automations, relevant product features, or join training programs.
  • Personalized Customer Success Newsletters are generated, offering tailored insights, updates, and recommendations for each customer account.

These efforts have significantly boosted engagement by ensuring customers receive information relevant to their unique journey with the platform.

AI in customer experience: Enhancing support efficiency

Celigo leverages AI, including natural language processing (NLP), to enhance customer experience by improving the efficiency of customer support teams. One notable use case is the AI Support Ticket Assistance, where AI helps Customer Support Representatives (CSRs) handle tickets more effectively.

When a CSR receives a support ticket, they can submit the ticket link to an AI-powered Slack channel, which then:

  • Summarizes the ticket.
  • Suggests solutions from past cases.
  • Provides relevant knowledge base articles.

This process reduces the time CSRs spend searching for solutions and enables them to respond to customers faster and more accurately. A feedback loop allows CSRs to indicate whether the proposed solution was helpful, refining the AI model over time.

By connecting data from platforms like Zendesk, Slack, and Confluence, Celigo iPaaS ensures AI-generated responses are comprehensive and contextually relevant, while maintaining data quality through validation, normalization, and governance practices.

Benefits of Celigo iPaaS for AI in sales, marketing, customer experience, and customer success

The power of AI lies not only in the algorithms but also in the data it consumes. High-quality, diverse data is crucial for effective AI implementations, ensuring models can learn from a broad range of scenarios and produce reliable, context-aware insights.

Key benefits include:

  • Rapid access to insights: Consolidated data sources enable Celigo’s AI to respond to queries and generate customer insights quickly, enhancing the speed and agility of marketing, sales, and support efforts.
  • Data democratization: Team members across departments can interact with AI via natural language through common platforms like Slack, eliminating bottlenecks in accessing data.
  • Improved personalization: Data from multiple customer touchpoints allows GPT to customize marketing content, support responses, and customer success initiatives, ensuring shared information is relevant and useful.
  • Proactive customer engagement: AI-generated insights help sales and customer success teams anticipate customer needs, facilitating proactive outreach.

By combining Celigo iPaaS with cutting-edge AI technologies, Celigo automates routine processes, enhances non-technical team members’ capabilities, and personalizes customer engagement campaigns.

This approach unifies data across applications, eliminating the need for manual data gathering and enhancing customer relationships.

Why you need an iPaaS at the center of your AI strategy

You need an iPaaS at the core of your AI strategy because it provides the essential infrastructure to integrate and optimize AI technologies across your organization.

Celigo’s advanced iPaaS seamlessly connects AI tools, large language models (LLMs), and diverse data sources, enabling powerful capabilities that enhance decision-making, streamline operations, and improve customer experiences.

  • Integration of diverse data sources: Celigo integrates data from various applications and databases, ensuring comprehensive, multi-sourced data for effective AI training.
  • Scalability and flexibility: Celigo’s architecture scales to handle large data volumes and adapts to evolving data sources.
  • Low-code development: Celigo’s low-code environment simplifies AI development, enabling efficient creation and deployment for developers at all expertise levels.
  • Comprehensive data governance: Robust governance features ensure compliance, security, and data quality for reliable AI models.
  • Orchestration of AI workflows: Celigo integrates and automates processes for seamless AI application development and deployment.

To learn more about how Celigo iPaaS can accelerate your AI strategy and deploy similar AI business solutions, schedule a demo with our AI experts.

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