The Most Expensive Line in Your Data Budget Is the One You Can't See

Every data platform decision has a default setting, and the default is wait. Not because leaders think the current stack is great. Because “we’ll modernize next year” feels responsible. It sounds like discipline. It reads like you’re protecting the budget. Here’s the part that never makes it into that conversation: waiting is not the free option. It’s a spending decision, and it renews every month whether or not anyone signs off on it.

Why Your AI Strategy Is Failing

Every leadership team is arguing about which AI model is best, but that debate is a distraction from the real problem. In this episode, Jeff McMillan, founder of McMillanAI and former head of firmwide AI at Morgan Stanley, breaks down the real bottlenecks behind enterprise AI strategy. He shares why fixing your data matters more than picking a model, why your best AI leader is probably already inside your company, and why AI eliminates tasks rather than entire jobs.

Snowflake Cortex AI for Cybersecurity: How Sophos Built Real-Time Threat Monitoring

Looking to scale your cybersecurity and threat monitoring using generative AI? Learn how Sophos leverages Snowflake Cortex AI to analyze massive security telemetry datasets. Jason Mullin, Director of Enterprise Data and Analytics at Sophos, shares how his team modernised their security analytics pipeline on the Snowflake Data Cloud. By integrating Cortex AI alongside tools like CoWork and CoCo, Sophos cut security analysis times and enabled AI-driven insights across their organization.

Why Your AI Agent Is Only As Good As the Tools It Can Reach

Imagine hiring the sharpest analyst you have ever met. They know the industry cold. They reason like nobody else on the team. They write like a Nobel laureate. Then you realize you never gave them a badge, a laptop, or a login to the CRM. And a week later, nothing has shipped. Every task still routes back through you, because the analyst can think but can’t touch anything. You’ve just hired a very expensive conversation partner. That is most people's experience with AI agents today.

From BI to Agentic AI: Why the Dashboards You Built Are the Foundation for Agents

Two questions stall almost every agentic AI rollout: Is it secure? And what is this going to cost us? Both get harder to answer the longer you wait to ask them, and easier to answer than most teams assume. If you've already invested in a robust data analytics platform like Qlik, you're closer to a secure, governed, and cost-effective agentic AI deployment than the market's “rip and replace” narrative suggests.

How to Build a Self-Service AI Platform Without Losing Control of GPUs, Data, or Security

Most enterprise AI infrastructure conversations land on the same tension. Builders want self-service: instant access to GPUs, a stable endpoint for a model, a notebook, or a fine-tuning run that starts without a ticket. Platform teams want per-team quotas, identity-aware access, audit trails, tenant isolation, and cost attribution they can defend. Both sides are right, and most platforms make you choose between them because self-service and control get layered onto a base that was designed for neither.

Ep 93 | When Everyone Has AI, Your Data Sets You Apart

After 23 years in machine learning and data science, Cao Hong has seen plenty of AI projects come and go. His measure of success is simple: did it create value for the business? Recorded at *EVOLVE26* Singapore, this episode of The AI Forecast brings Paul Muller together with Cao Hong, Principal Director of Data Apps at NCS, to explore how organizations can turn AI experimentation into measurable business impact.

AI Literacy Starts at the Top

AI literacy across 60,000 people starts with the C-suite. In this clip from podcast, Bethany Miles, Chief AI Officer at Advantage Solutions, shares how she built enterprise-wide AI fluency, starting with 10+ hours of hands-on executive training and a CEO coding workshop. What you'll learn in the full episode:→ Why AI literacy has to start at the top before it can scale anywhere else→ How Advantage Solutions redesigned broken processes before automating them→ What to measure beyond adoption (service excellence and time-to-complete)

Scanned PDF Processing in Astera ReportMiner

Watch Astera ReportMiner's Text Converter object automatically pick the right OCR engine for a creased fax, a skewed bill of lading, and a handwritten log, then turn each one into structured, exportable data. This demo walks through intelligent character recognition (ICR) in practice: a business receiving a mix of degraded scanned documents that would break a single fixed OCR engine.