Enterprise Generative AI: From Pilot to Production on AWS
Key takeaways Most backlogs hold one or two real candidates. The insurer in this guide has 12 pilots, and the one it should ship scores 15 out of 18 on the readiness scorecard. The…
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Key takeaways Most backlogs hold one or two real candidates. The insurer in this guide has 12 pilots, and the one it should ship scores 15 out of 18 on the readiness scorecard. The…
Key takeaways Total program cost is the build plus the cutover. At the bank in this guide, the cutover adds about $2.6 million to a $6.0 million build, and most proposals would lea…
Key takeaways Progress is a workload live in production with its legacy version switched off. Servers assessed and waves planned are inputs, and the lender in this guide wouldn't c…
Key takeaways The model is rarely what holds these programs up. At the foods company in this guide, the first real problem would be two warehouses that count stock differently, and…
Key takeaways Picking a table format is really picking who controls your data. You'll probably swap query engines a few times over the next decade, but the data will still be sitti…
Key takeaways System age is a weak readiness signal. Rising change latency, a one-engineer dependency, and a renewal bigger than the rebuild say far more. The binding constraint pi…
Key takeaways The extra money buys judgment. In the health plan example, that's the agent noticing a missing therapy record and going back for it before it recommends anything. Run…
Key takeaways Most pilots won't make it as built. Gartner thinks more than 40% of agentic AI projects will be scrapped by the end of 2027, and only about two in ten McKinsey respon…
Key takeaways Redshift fits AWS-first estates best. If your data is already governed through IAM, KMS, and Lake Formation, you avoid signing a second contract and running a second …
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