Defining Business Documents in ESM

Objective

After completing this lesson, you will be able to describe what business documents are and their purpose in ESM

Business Documents in ESM

Business Documents offer a semantic representation of backend records, allowing for their creation, updating, or viewing. Table values can be either auto-populated through AI services or input manually.

These documents are adept at capturing data from various sources, including email messages, case subjects, descriptions, and attachments across multiple file types, as well as through manual entry. Generative AI, utilizing large language models, is employed to extract data from attachments and entities.

As an administrator, you have the capability to design business document schemas tailored to represent data patterns for various scenarios. Schemas define the data to be included in your business documents and dictate the desired formatting within your solution. Once business documents are activated for a specific case type, you'll find a Business Documents tab in the case detail view. Conditions can be applied to make certain fields in business documents required, read-only, or hidden.

The business document will be visible in a case as an additional tab, that has to be added via adaptation.

The Business Documents interface in ESM is displayed. It shows an example with one document listed under the Business Documents section, with the source as Document Extraction and a status of Posted to Backend. The document number is 0425050519. There is a yellow box around the eye icon to display the business document.

The following image shows the ‘Document Extraction’ preview interface where you can see the extracted data such as invoice number and invoice date. On the right side the extracted fields can be seen. At the top the header fields and below the line items. The extracted data has been marked with squares on the document and displayed with different colors on the right to showcase the confidence score of the AI.

The Document Extraction preview interface is displayed. In the upper-left corner, the document Payment_Advice-2528042_ESM_AG.pdf is visible with extracted data overlaid on the PDF, showing document details such as Document Number 200087928 and Date 04/02/2023. On the right panel, an extraction confidence range chart highlights the confidence levels in red, orange, and green. Below that, header fields show key information, including currencyCode: EUR, documentDate: 2023-02-04, documentNumber: 200087928, and grossAmount: 2500.0. Line items underneath list data for two entries, with details such as discountAmount: 0.0, documentDate: 2023-01-02, netAmount: 2000.0, and documentNumber: 190002301. The second line item mirrors this structure with netAmount: 500.0.

Viewing a Payment Advice Business Document in ESM

The following video will demonstrate how to view a ‘Payment Advice’ business document and the extracted data in ESM.

Lesson Summary

In this lesson you have learned what business documents are, what they are used for as well as how they are depicted inside of ESM. It is an efficient method to extract data out of attachments by using the document extraction feature or extracting out of cases by using the information extraction feature.