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Syngenta ' s Traceable Sourcing Programme is giving a boost to farmers
“ It promised to do all of the correlation and the deduplication of alerts and we turned it on and our alerts went to almost zero. We reduced alerts by 95 % to the point where we thought we’ d broken the monitoring. But we actually saw between 90 % and 95 % reduction of tickets based on the AI that was built into the tool, which subsequently only gave us the tickets we needed for action.”
The experience cemented Kris’ s confidence in AI for AIOps, spotting anomalies, predictive upkeep and security: areas where sifting through massive datasets is key. He believes
AI is helping to make the field exciting again:“ I think that we’ re going to start seeing networks starting to be cool again, which is really good to see.”
Beyond just connecting: getting business value from modern wireless Syngenta is not just thinking about providing wireless connections anymore. Kris explains that much of what we do is expected, or‘ table stakes’ as his CIO often mentions.
A“ wireless first” mindset is taking hold, cutting back on costly traditional cables and switches, which Kris points out are
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