I.A. for companies made in Italy, IGOR was born from Brianza

Not just Silicon Valley. Part of the race for artificial intelligence also passes through the fabric of Italian companies and, in this case, Brianza. In Meda, in the province of Monza and Brianza, Enplin, a company founded in 1996, has developed IGOR, an artificial intelligence solution designed to allow companies to query their information assets using natural language. The idea is to make content often distributed across catalogues, technical sheets, manuals, price lists, documents and management systems more easily accessible, transforming them into answers that can be used in daily activities. An approach that looks in particular at a very Italian theme: bringing the potential of A.I. within small and medium-sized companies that have a large wealth of knowledge, which is not always easy to organize and consult quickly.

It all starts with company data

Unlike a generalist chatbot, IGOR is designed to work on company-specific sources: it can be used, for example, to search for a product within complex catalogues, check its characteristics and compatibility or retrieve information to support commercial and operational activities. According to what the founder of Enplin, Marco Martinoli, explains, the project was also born from the need to allow companies to use artificial intelligence without necessarily entrusting their confidential information to generalist platforms. For organizations with greater control needs, an Enterprise version based on dedicated infrastructures is also provided. The interesting point, beyond the single solution, therefore concerns one of the central issues in the adoption of AI. in businesses: being able to exploit conversational models and interfaces while maintaining attention to the provenance, relevance and management of company data.

The Italian challenge: bringing A.I. in SMEs

The project is part of a broader debate on the possible impact of artificial intelligence on the competitiveness of the Italian production system, which took place during the presentation of IGOR, in which the thirtieth anniversary of Enplin was celebrated. For Federico Romani, president of the Council of the Lombardy Region, "AI is a support tool" but must always be "subjected to human control and responsibility". While Matteo Parravicini, president of the Monza and Brianza territorial Presidium of Assolombarda, indicated in the integration of the A.I. in factories and production processes, especially in small and medium-sized enterprises, a possible lever for increasing productivity. Perspectives therefore that shift attention from the technology "in itself" to concrete applications: the most correct method to exploit artificial intelligence today is to produce tools capable not so much of replacing skills and people, but of making access to the knowledge accumulated by companies easier. It is also here that the game of "made in Italy" artificial intelligence is being played: not necessarily in the construction of competitors of the large global models, but in the development of applications closer to the characteristics and needs of the national production system.