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Sage Intacct is developing a digital assistant and bot. The cloud software company previewed the tool at its recent Advantage conference but had no date for its introduction.
Intacct has named the artificial intelligence-based assistant Pacioli, Luca Pacioli (1445-1517), the monk who invented double-entry bookkeeping.
"Pacioli is the first digital assistant designed for CFOs," Aaron Harris, Intacct's chief technology officer, said during the opening keynotes. Robert Reid, EVP of the Sage unit, later described the technology's status as being between the estimating and forecasting states of development.
Pacioli will respond to spoken questions and during his presentation Harris provided an example in which a user asked for the amount of sales to a particular customer and Pacioli located that number and posted it to a conversation chain. "As Pacioli learns from usage, it will make it easier to perform common tasks," Harris said.
Bob Scott has provided information to the tax and accounting community since 1991, first as technology editor of Accounting Today, and from 1997 through 2009 as editor of its sister publication, Accounting Technology. He is known throughout the industry for his depth of knowledge and for his high journalistic standards. Scott has made frequent appearances as a speaker, moderator and panelist and events serving tax and accounting professionals. He has a strong background in computer journalism as an editor with two former trade publications, Computer+Software News and MIS Week and spent several years with weekly and daily newspapers in Morris County New Jersey prior to that. A graduate of Indiana University with a degree in journalism, Bob is a native of Madison, Ind
