AI meets practice - Presentation of the GENIUS project group at abat

On March 27, 2025, everything at abat revolved around the question of how generative AI can be meaningfully integrated into business processes. t a final event, the GENIUS project group (Generative AI in company-specific applications) from the University of Oldenburg, consisting of nine students from the Master's degree programs in Computer Science and Business Informatics, presented their results - and impressively demonstrated how theoretical knowledge can be turned into practical innovation.

The aim of the project was to develop a digital assistant that not only processes public knowledge, but also integrates internal abat information in compliance with data protection regulations. Using modern AI methods such as Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG), the assistant enables simple and comprehensible answers to complex questions - from technical documentation to travel guidelines.

In addition to the technical components such as connectors, embedding models, LLMs and prompting, the final presentation also focused on evaluating the system. How do agents work in practice? What role does reranking play in the quality of the answers? And how can all this be securely integrated into existing IT landscapes?

The interest was great, the exchange lively and the enthusiasm for the topic clearly palpable. For abat, the collaboration with the University of Oldenburg was a further step towards translating innovations from research into concrete applications - and making the potential of AI tangible in practice.