TopQuadrant How to Build an AI-Ready Data Foundation

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thank you everyone for joining us this afternoon um we are very excited

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to be here and joined with all of you with all of you guys um to

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chat about this topic it's something that we've been spending a lot of time thinking

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about um working with all with our customers and um

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really rethinking um you

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know uh

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Thinking about a lot of how we do work based around this

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topic. So anyway,

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excited to talk about how to build an AI -ready data foundation.

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And I'm Amar Doshi.

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I'm the chief product officer here at Top Quadrant.

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I'm joined here with Steve Hedden,

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who is our product manager.

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And to talk a little bit about,

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first, introduce our company a little bit.

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For those of you who may not know,

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we are at Top Quadrant.

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We work with mostly large organizations.

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We serve some of the largest organizations in the world and help them solve

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pretty complex data problems.

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That's kind of been our history.

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We've been in this space as thinking about the

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evolution of the data stack from various iterations,

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from data fabric,

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data mesh, data,

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all of these things.

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And really seeing this moment in terms of AI as

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one where we're

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were not that different from others but also simultaneously like very very different and

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um

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And really thinking about the work that we do is foundational and fundamental to that.

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And so we'll talk a little bit more about what that actually is,

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but wanted to kind of give you a bit of background

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about who we are and what we do.

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Also excited to see some of the recognition of the work that we do with

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our customers and how that shows up in the marketplace.

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And recently we were recognized as in the Gartner

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Magic Quadrant for metadata solutions.

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a little bit about our background we come from a rich history and kind of the semantic web

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and um in semantics as as a

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as a practice.

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Some of our foundational engineers were some of the earliest kind of engineers

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that helped build Protege,

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as well as some of the other kind of core semantic tooling in this space.

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We've been part of the W3C since 2001,

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and we've had multiple different kind of iterations of our product.

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TopRate Composer was kind of an individual ontology modeling tool,

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which I still think is one of the best ontology modeling tools in

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the market.

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that still gets used.

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And then we've shifted over time to more of an enterprise product called Operate

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Edge.

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That was a core flagship product for a number of years that really

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was focused on our enterprise customers that were trying to leverage semantics in their

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broader data stack.

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over the last kind of six months to a year we've been working on that next iteration of that

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product which is called the tq data foundation and it really brings all of the knowledge

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that we've accumulated through kind of the last um you know 25 years or

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so um and brings it and and and brings

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it and builds a product that meets this moment today with the backdrop of ai and

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um what the the kind of the core problem that we

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are all are solving with the tq data foundation is

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How do we help enterprises make the most out of the data that they have?

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And why we're here talking about it today is that

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You know, we are seeing that AI is,

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you know, across our customer base.

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And as everyone knows,

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everyone's investing heavily in AI and the importance of getting,

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you know, getting AI into production can't be understated,

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right? There's a lot of pressure across all organizations to be able to start

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thinking about this and doing this well.

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And we're seeing the tremendous investment that's happening in it.

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But what the thing that we're also seeing is that customers are struggling to

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get.

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value out of these investments that they're making.

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If you look at kind of the chart on the right here,

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we're seeing customers,

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and this is not just our customer base,

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but broader market,

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that really only about 10 % of customers are getting the,

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are seeing kind of the cost or revenue benefits that they were hoping to

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get when they were building,

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when they started investing in AI.

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And one of the core reasons that we see this being

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the case is we drill into some of the...

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kind of the root causes is around inaccuracy,

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right?

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And we see that inaccuracy being a great kind of something that's holding customers

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back from putting things into production.

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And the reason that they're doing that is because they're seeing as AI solutions

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are inaccurate,

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they're not getting the adoption that they would want.

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And they realize that if they lose kind of trusted stakeholders in the process,

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it's going to be kind of harder and harder to put AI into production.

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And on the flip side,

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we work with a lot of

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highly regulated industries where just putting something that's inaccurate into production is

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just not um you know is not necessarily um you

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know it's just not really an option and we spent a lot of time thinking about

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kind of what are some of the root causes of this inaccurate

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And one of the core ones

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that we focus on is the fact that the historical data stack was not necessarily focused

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on, you know,

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it was not built for this moment,

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right?

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We had a storage layer and there were a lot of ETL tools that helped

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kind of build,

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that helped kind of power the application layer.

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And those ETL tools required a lot of manual manipulation,

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manual intervention,

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required,

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you know, a lot of humans.

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kind of scripting and doing wrangling in between to make these

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applications work.

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Over time,

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we saw, you know,

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there's a whole other category of data solutions that came into place.

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Things that help,

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you know, help you help data discovery,

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mastering your data,

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governing your data,

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making sure that you're using it compliantly.

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But all of these things still kind of were point solutions in this

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stack. And if you think about,

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you know, kind of some of the challenges that still exist with this stack,

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where that, you know,

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we had customers that have spent a lot of...

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time and effort and and dollars building kind of you know their data warehouses and

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the data data lakes but you still end up with

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you know you it stores your data but it doesn't

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necessarily explain

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what that data means or how it should be used,

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right? So it's still missing a lot of that metadata in that context.

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Customers invested heavily in data catalogs and the data catalogs were great

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in terms of discovery and to a limited extent,

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helping identify what resources

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um you know what resources you might want to be using things like that but

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it didn't do it doesn't fully solve the problem how does some how does all the

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data i have in the enterprise relate to each other or how should i be using it how does it relate

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to my policy um and what we still see in you know in

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in a lot of organizations is that humans are still the super glue right they're still

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the folks that we still need a lot of human intervention to be able to to

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to to

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reconcile things on the fly,

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reconcile definitions on the fly,

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or kind of be able to bring in some knowledge that's going to ultimately make these applications

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sing.

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And the challenge is that with AI,

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it's just put a huge magnifying glass on all of these cracks.

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And AI essentially has a whole new set of requirements that

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don't necessarily fit into the modern

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stack.

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First,

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it needs kind of explicit machine -readable context,

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right?

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It needs to be able to understand things that potentially are all

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over your enterprise.

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It needs that context in association with...

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with understanding all of the structured and unstructured data your organization has

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um it needs to understand how your organization operates how do the different departments

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or domains interact with each other um and and lastly

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it needs that context to stay accurate for it to be for for a current

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for it to stay accurate right you're

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organization is constantly evolving and um while a lot of the solutions

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that you know um you know a lot of ai can can

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can bridge some of those gaps how do you make sure that as the organization is evolving it is aware

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of those things as well um and these

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gaps in kind of in the in you know when that context does when ai doesn't have

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that those particular things

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One of the things that we're all seeing is that it does guess,

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right? It fills in those gaps and more and more,

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it's filling in those gaps better,

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but it is still gaps that when you're bringing AI

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to your organization,

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it doesn't know your organization and it does need to kind of build,

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it does build some assumptions in there.

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When we think about those gaps,

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it's like, well, why do those gaps exist?

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And we see that those gaps in context exist in a

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few different places.

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One, a lot of that knowledge is tribal knowledge.

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It's in people's heads in your organizations.

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It's things that are not necessarily formally documented anywhere.

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They're not written down.

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And they're subject matter experts that really own that.

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Another area that we see it is it's in hard -coded logic,

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in workflows,

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in scripts,

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in...

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a number of different areas around,

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you know,

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in your organization where you

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build point solutions or point applications where it's kind of embedded.

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And the last place is it's in unstructured formats,

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right?

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Decision traces that are in documents and PDFs and emails and other

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places where you don't actually have it connected to maybe where the source system that

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has recorded that decision.

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And all of that together is the missing context that AI needs to understand your

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organization to be able to fully reason over all of the data

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that you have.

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And that's kind of what we see the next evolution of that

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data stack being,

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where there is a layer in between that is really powering that context.

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It's abstracting a level above your storage

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and your applications to think about what are the core concepts of your organization and

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building.

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a model around them.

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It's thinking about kind of core entities and components

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of your organization and making sure that they're in a single source,

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then they're referenceable.

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Taking the metadata around all of your structured and unstructured

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data and making it and connecting it to those two previous pillars.

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And then layering on top of it all of the different types

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of things, all of the different implicit and explicit policies.

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rules, strategies,

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guardrails that you want so that it makes decisions according

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to a certain set of parameters.

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And this layer is something that we think is fundamentally missing

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in the data stack right now.

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To drill a little bit deeper about when we're talking about that context layer

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and that AI Ready Data Foundation,

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we see it as four pillars.

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It's models,

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and this is something that we think is conceptual models,

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domain models,

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ontologies.

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Really,

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what are the core concepts in your business and how do they relate to each other?

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references.

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So what are kind of core referential data for

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your organization,

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taxonomies,

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glossaries,

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reference data,

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governed data products that can be served up to

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that can be aligned so that there is a consistent set of references for

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teams and AI.

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The third pillar here is metadata.

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And one of the things that we think about when we think about metadata is actually

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not just connecting structured data in and of itself,

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unstructured data in and of itself,

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but also connecting those together and as it relates to the models and

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the references that you have.

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bridging not just kind of the semantic layer of bi or kind of thinking about

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um you know retrieval for for unstructured content but what

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about scenarios where you need both unstructured content contracts um you

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know glossaries things like that but also need that in the context of your structured data to

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be able to really make an actionable decision and the last is

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kind of business logic and being able to machine being able to

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uh create a machine readable version of your rules policies and card rails

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um that's kind of the the core

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um the you know the core four pillars that we that that

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we see as you know are helping customers you know build it

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build this air ready data foundation um how that

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shows up for our customers and where we where we see that and here's four examples that we're currently

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um working with customers on and

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The first,

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you know,

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the first is around coding.

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We've all seen kind of the possibility of what happens when,

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you know,

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what coding agents like Cloud or Cursor can do,

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and they're really able to build fantastic tooling,

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fantastic applications pretty quickly.

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And one of the things that we've seen with some of the customers that we've been working

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on is, while that is the case,

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a lot of what they are,

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when they're using these,

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when they're building agents or using agents to build applications that

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are related to their broader suite of tools,

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they're embedding a lot of context into the prompts themselves.

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They're,

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you know, information about how a,

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you know,

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for this particular customer,

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if they...

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um it's a software customer they have a suite of products and they're trying to understand

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an internal use case of how they can um stave off churn or think

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about upsells things like that they are still embedding a

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lot of context into those problems about where does customer information live does it live in these six

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systems and so every time they're building one of these things and it's been it's really effective they're

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actually they're hard coding this information in and that is a problem it's

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problematic in two ways one is that you know

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You're doing it again and again and again.

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After you built the churn app,

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you might build an upsell app or you might build a renegotiation app.

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And these are things that you're going to duplicate that.

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The second is that it's hard -coded.

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And you have to think of a way of actually managing that context over time.

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So as things change,

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how do you make sure that you're able to kind of reuse those components?

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The context layer that this offers them is a quick,

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referenceable layer that helps them build,

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not only power a whole set of agents,

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but also continue to build things quicker that doesn't require

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all of the work of getting every detail right.

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The second is,

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you know, an R &D use case that I'll chat through,

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which is,

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you know, organizations,

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large pharma companies that want to,

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that are, that are,

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that were helping think about regulatory submission and report authoring.

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And the problem has been,

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you know, a problem that we're helping,

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I mean, we've been working with pharmaceutical companies for year solving is you have multiple products.

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They might have multiple different product names.

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different chemical names over time um compound names they they're they have different

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active ingredients themes and different you know um

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in different geographies.

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All of this information is sitting often in unstructured formats

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in different places,

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and there's no single source of truth to say this is all the same.

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And when you're thinking about some of the challenges

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in terms of regulatory reporting,

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being able to have that single source of truth or being able to have the

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preferred way an organization wants to talk about a particular set

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of products is really important to make sure that

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the reporting that's generated then is comprehensive.

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Additionally,

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you might have internal standards compared to the regulatory external

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standards that are being used.

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There needs to be a mapping between those,

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and that needs to be managed in a way that allows interoperability between kind

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of the reporting that goes out as well as your internal systems.

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And that's something that requires a lot of subject matter expertise,

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and it's not something that is going to easily be given away to.

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to ai to do and so building those artifacts and managing them in

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kind of a context layer allows a human in the loop to be able to kind

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of give this really important context to ai to then be able to unlock

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use cases that previously were not um achievable um

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A third scenario here that we're working with customers on,

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I want a customer on is an optimization kind

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of challenge, which is if you want,

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the organization wants to be able to deploy agents to be able to start making decisions

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around how you might change a project plan,

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for example, depending on various different outcomes or changes

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in

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and how you might change a project plan depending on variables

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that might impact it.

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You know, a shortage of labor,

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a shortage of a particular good,

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a weather events,

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things like that.

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And how can you actually change the project plan in a way that you're going to stay

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within risk parameters of delivering,

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you know, on time and at budget.

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The challenge that you have there is you have multiple different systems that go into this,

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right? You have an inventory system that has kind of your trade goods.

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You have a planning system,

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a designing system,

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estimation system.

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And they all kind of talk

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differently.

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They might have a different set of parts,

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things like that.

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When all of that can come together,

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you're able to...

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so we're helping them kind of think of this in two ways one is stitching those systems together and

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creating kind of a metadata you know a mapping

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across those systems but also a single set of referenceable trade products that can

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help

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that AI can then say,

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hey, in this system,

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this product is the same as this system and this product in this system.

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And therefore,

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you can start making decisions on how a particular

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change might impact a product and the parameters around that.

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The last here is just one around

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kind of a credit line optimization.

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Question ends up working with the top 10 bank who's trying to think of how can they expand some

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of the offerings that they can give to a customer and kind of a classic example of,

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you know, they want to be able to run AI over a

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more intelligent process over how they extend new

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products to existing customers.

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How do they make sure that they're doing that in a compliant way?

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And obviously.

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a highly regulated industry such as financial services that could be fraught with challenges

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in terms of what you can and cannot do and being able to

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make sure that you are doing that in an effective way while abiding

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by kind of all of the safety parameters and risk parameters that you want to be and

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so these are just kind of three or four examples and they're not exhaustive

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but they're just places where we are seeing

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the investment in a context layer actually is able to unlock

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much higher ROI and much more complicated

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use cases.

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The last and the additional piece on that is it's

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a reusable foundation where you can build new agents faster

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on them.

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And the last is that you can kind of,

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as

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the context changes and your business strategy changes,

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you're able to capture it in a single place and deploy it again and again,

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deploy that change everywhere so all of your agents are kind of abiding

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by that new reality that you're living in.

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So with that,

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you know,

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we'll hop into just like a brief demo or pop into

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our product and kind of show you how we've actually built this for a particular example.

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Right before I do that,

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just the TQ Data Foundation,

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I mentioned it a few times,

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but the TQ Data Foundation,

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it's a foundational infrastructure.

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It's a new product that we've launched.

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It is foundational infrastructure that translates enterprise data,

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policy,

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implicit knowledge into machine -readable context that scales across teams,

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applications,

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and AI agents.

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The way we think about the product is that

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it does three things.

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It captures your business context.

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delivers it to wherever you are building AI,

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so activates it,

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and then it evolves it and it grows with you and your organization.

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So as things change,

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it makes sure that it is capturing that information and keeping your context

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current and relevant so that your AI applications

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don't degrade in performance,

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your agents don't degrade in performance.

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On each of these pillars,

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we're investing in from a product perspective,

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a few things that

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a few things that actually make it really easy for you to deploy.

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First,

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on the capture side,

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historically,

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building with knowledge graphs or building in semantics has been a really hard and tedious

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task.

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We've invested a lot in our product so that you can use AI to build

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this context layer pretty efficiently and quickly.

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The idea is that you're able to

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leverage kind of

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AI to extract entities and build taxonomies,

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glossaries,

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things like that pretty quickly.

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We've also invested in a conceptual diagramming tool that helps bring

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in external stakeholders,

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not external stakeholders,

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but non -technical stakeholders who often have a lot to contribute,

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but have often been a difficult stakeholder to kind of get into bringing

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and helping build knowledge graphs given some of the technical nature.

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We also have...

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invested in a product marketplace.

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So to bring external standards and ontologies and vocabularies and

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models that already exist into the TQ data foundation to help customers

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that don't, not have to start from scratch.

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The second pillar here is activate.

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We're trying to, you know,

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we're trying to, once you build the context layer,

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we want to make sure that it is everywhere you are trying to build AI.

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So that's,

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we've invested in an MCP server,

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making it enter,

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making sure that we can integrate into agent frameworks,

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as well as where your data already lives in terms of data warehouses,

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data lakes like Snowflake,

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Databricks,

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and various graph databases.

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And then the last thing is,

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how can we make sure that it's easy for you to keep this information

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current?

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And we spend a lot of time thinking about how do we leverage AI there as well,

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sense things in your organization to bring that back to your context layer,

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to suggest changes,

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making sure that humans have a role in that to say,

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yep, this is a valid change to the business and to the context

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layer, and it'll be accepted and disseminated.

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And ultimately,

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that leads to being able to stand up fast,

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deploy it everywhere,

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and then kind of update it centrally.

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With that,

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I'll hand it over to Steve on our product

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side to kind of give a quick demo or walkthrough of how you actually would do this.

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Thank

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you, Amr.

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And I've shared my screen.

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Can everyone hear me and see the screen?

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Looks good.

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Yep,

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so thanks for that.

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I think Amr went through really well,

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you know, why AI needs context.

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I hope that all...

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make sense.

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Hopefully I don't have to convince you of that.

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It's more now we could show you exactly how to build that

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context layer,

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that data foundation to ensure your AI has a context it needs

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and doesn't create its own context or go off the rails and do its own thing.

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So I'm going to start with an example of what it would look like for

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AI to have context.

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And then what it would look like without.

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And then we'll go through the steps of how I got there.

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So for this example,

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this is I'm asking a question,

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which customers can I market a credit card to?

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