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Back in the ’80s, sales reps migrated their Rolodexes to DOS programs to keep tabs on their top customers and most exciting prospects. Fast-forward 30 years later, and Complexica aims to leapfrog the likes of Salesforce with "Larry", a ‘Digital Analyst’ in the cloud that is already helping the like of Bunzl, DuluxGroup and PFD Foods to sift through datasets to match the right offers at the right time to the right customers. 

Dulux Group partnered with Complexica for its Customer Opportunity Profiler to make its in-field salespeople more efficient. “[It is] a key tool for sales staff to optimise their daily activities, personalise conversations and interactions with customers, and analyse data to generate actionable insights,” 
says Stephen Mooney,
 the paint maker’s Group Sales
 Capability Manager.

Bunzl Group is a distributor of products such as food packaging and cleaning supplies for businesses. For Bunzl, ensuring its 300 account managers spent less time in front of screens and more in face-to-face meetings was a key factor in deploying Larry. “Complexica’s Order Management System and Larry… empower decision making and enhanced support
," says Kim Hetherington, Managing Director of Bunzl Australasia.

The hype around artificial intelligence (AI) is at an all-time high, with the AI technology market forecasted to reach $37 billion by 2025. Indeed, there has also been a great deal of discussion around the opportunities and threats to business management and workforce in general. When it comes to AI, there’s a reason for the hype – the potential payoff of embracing it is enormous. In this article, you will gain insight into how companies are already using AI, and find out what can be accomplished with AI in business management.

Now let’s look at how AI can help your business today. Better analysis of insights can improve your business’ return on investment by 10 to 20%, and drive average profit growth of 14%, according to McKinsey & Company. However, in an age of information overload, the human brain is incapable of processing the vast amounts of data to translate that information into knowledge – to make better decisions in business processes optimisation.

Complexica Pty Ltd, a leading provider of Artificial Intelligence software for optimising sales and marketing decisions, announced today that Bunzl has gone live with Complexica's Order Management System (OMS) for in-field sales reps and customer service staff. Complexica’s Order Management System (OMS) is powered by Larry, the Digital Analyst®, and provides sales, telesales, and customer service staff with advanced capabilities for intelligent quoting, order processing, and guided selling.

Bunzl is an international distribution and outsourcing company headquartered in the United Kingdom with revenues in excess of AU$10 billion and operations spanning across 29 countries. The company supports businesses all over the world with a diverse range of non-food consumable products that are essential for their customers to successfully operate their businesses. Its customers include healthcare, caterers, facility managers, retailers, food processors and industry. Bunzl is listed on the London Stock Exchange FTSE100 Index and employs more than 15,000 staff globally. For more information about Bunzl, please visit: www.bunzl.com

Complexica Pty Ltd, a leading provider of Artificial Intelligence software for optimising sales and marketing activities, announced today that it has signed a contract with DuluxGroup for the deployment of a next-generation Customer Opportunity Profiler (COP) system, powered by Larry, the Digital Analyst®. DuluxGroup will deploy the software within its trade paints, texture coatings, and protective coatings businesses to reduce the non-selling time of sales staff, personalise customer interactions and conversations, and automate the manual research undertaken by sales staff.

“After an evaluation process and successful proof-of-concept in 2016, we have chosen to partner with Complexica to upgrade the technological capability of our in-field sales force,” said Stephen Mooney, Group Sales Capability Manager for DuluxGroup. “The next-generation Customer Opportunity Profiler provided by Complexica will serve as a key tool for sales staff to optimise their daily activities, personalise conversations and interactions with customers, and analyse data to generate actionable insights.”

Complexica's CEO, Matthew Michalewicz, joins Marty Switzer on Sky News to dispel some common myths about the rise of Artificial Intelligence, and explain why jobs are not in danger, yet.