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Key takeaways Four agent behaviours break analytics-era assumptions: many narrow reads, traffic in bursts, reads that turn into proposed writes, and callers that are service identi…
Key takeaways Pick a path per workload, not per estate. Rehost, Babelfish, refactor, and re-architect each leave a different license bill behind, and most estates end up using two …
Key takeaways Most “hallucinations” are retrieval failures. In 70 percent of the engagements Mactores reviewed, the correct passage was never retrieved. Pipeline quality decides ac…
For most enterprises running on AWS, data modernization has stopped being discretionary. Regulatory reporting, customer-facing AI agents, and forecasting models all depend on datas…
Key takeaways Governance and architecture decide whether a lake succeeds. Gartner expects 80% of D&A governance initiatives to fail by 2027, so design for governance from day o…
Key takeaways Each path reaches a governed dataset on a different timeline: rehost takes 4 to 6 months and often needs a follow-on project, replatform takes 6 to 10 weeks, and rede…
Key takeaways A forward-deployed engineer (FDE) is an engineer who works directly inside a customer’s environment to solve real production problems, write and deploy code, and rema…
Key takeaways Three pillars divide the work by responsibility: the evidence layer (what systems may read), the action layer (what they may change), and the execution layer (what de…
Key takeaways Four model properties set the cost curve: tool-calling reliability, output token verbosity, p95 latency across chained calls, and instruction adherence as the context…
Key takeaways Production is rare, not impossible. 30 percent are exploring agentic options, 38 percent piloting, 14 percent ready to deploy, 11 percent running in production. The b…
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