DATEV AI Workshop – Shaping the future. Together.
Creation of an experimental online platform for testing generative AI and developing prototypes
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The DATEV AI workshop heralds a new era in tax consulting.
DATEV, a leading IT cooperative for the tax, accounting and legal professions, offers software solutions for tax firms, their clients, public authorities and banks.
Under the motto “Shaping the future. Together.”, DATEV develops innovative solutions together with customers and partners, such as the DATEV AI workshop.
The free online platform is used for the experimental testing and development of generative artificial intelligence, provides insights into the future of tax consulting and enables direct user feedback.
This allows the prototypes on the platform to be continuously improved.
MISSION (IM)POSSIBLE:
A tight timeframe for the development of the DATEV AI workshop
The requirement was to create responsive prototypes in a very short time.for the AI workshop.
The aim was to create a functioning platform in the DATEV cloud on which the applications could be tested and further developed at an early stage of development. In addition, a central requirement of DATEV was to ensure compliance with the company-specific design guidelines for the UX (user experience) design.
The solution:
The development of experimental prototypes of QualityMinds
QualityMinds was able to provide a cross-knowledge competence team of experienced development, DevOps, testing, AI and UX experts for the implementation.
Further development of the prototypes based on user feedback.
As part of an agile project approach based on Scrum with sprints, the focus in the first phase of development was on developing functional prototypes and iteratively improving them based on user feedback.
User feedback is crucial for adding new functions to the platform and deciding whether prototypes could leave the AI workshop to be further developed as a finished product. On the other hand, regular communication with daily scrum meetings, regular sprint reviews and feedback loops accelerated collaboration enormously.
AI applications at a glance
Objection generator: creates an objection to a tax assessment notice according to formal criteria and standards
Summarizer: summarizes texts with a selectable writing style
Jobinator: creates meaningful job advertisements for law firms
Social Media Assistant: creates appealing social media posts
DATEV-GPT: allows you to try out the GPT technology in the familiar DATEV look and feel
Ask LEA: uses generative AI to answer tax questions based on the LEXinform knowledge database
“The way the QualityMinds team works, which also carried out and interpreted comprehensive load tests, for example, has convinced us in the long term.
After just five weeks, a platform has been created for DATEV customers that allows the integration and utilisation of further DATEV prototypes and runs within the DATEV Cloud Native infrastructure.”
Domink Henkel, DATEV
Chief Product Owner Generative AI
“When the platform could already be used by hundreds of customers shortly before Christmas, that was a milestone!
The AI applications show the way for what can be done with generative AI in productive operation and are constantly being developed further based on user feedback.
One of QualityMinds’ great strengths is that we can quickly familiarize ourselves with new projects and deliver creative and high-quality solutions even under time pressure.”
Tobias Varlemann
Head of IT | QualityMinds
“The user experience of the generative AI platform needed to be fast and pleasant.
Thanks to DATEV’s trust in our multidisciplinary team and the support of their UX community and IT infrastructure, we were able to work together successfully.
An important step was the choice of the Lean UX approach and the regular feedback cycle. QualityMinds always pursues a consistent focus on the user, which was another decisive success factor for the UX design of this project.”
Rani Sinkh
UX/UI Designer