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Avoid AI budget waste in 2026. Use this practical guide to plan investments that produce measurable business impact.
Nick Chase
December 30, 2025

Planning AI Investments That Actually Pay Off in 2026

In 2026, AI spending scrutiny will rise. This guide helps organizations plan AI investments that survive CFO review, avoid pilot purgatory, and deliver compounding ROI through clear outcomes, defined metrics, and scalable foundations.

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AI won’t reward hype in 2026. Learn how to avoid pilot purgatory, vendor failures, and data misuse with this field guide.
Nick Chase
December 28, 2025

What Companies Will Get Wrong About AI in 2026

This guide outlines seven key mistakes enterprises will make with AI in 2026—from overvaluing tools to skipping governance—and offers practical, operations-first advice to help teams turn AI from a buzzword into sustained business value.

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Organizations are investing millions in fast dashboards, yet data science insights are slowing down. Discover why rigid infrastructure constrains discovery and how flexible data platforms can drive true innovation.
Nick Chase
June 27, 2025

Why Your Data Scientist Needs a "Flexible Data Canvas," Not Just an Optimized Dashboard

Faster dashboards don’t mean faster discoveries. Discover why the key to true data science innovation is flexible, discovery-driven infrastructure—not just optimized reporting tools.

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Discover how anti-fragile AI systems turn market chaos into opportunity. Learn key principles, architecture, and business strategies for building AI that improves during disruption—transforming uncertainty into a sustainable competitive advantage.
Nick Chase
June 25, 2025

The "Anti-Fragile" AI Agent: Building Systems That Thrive on Disruption, Not Just Efficiency

Unlock the power of anti-fragile AI: Build intelligent systems that grow stronger with disruption, not just survive it. Explore strategies, principles, and a roadmap for deploying adaptive AI in your organization.

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Unlock the full value of your Databricks investment with a pragmatic, at-a-glance guide to optimizing infrastructure, streamlining workflows, and aligning teams for maximum ROI.
David Fishman
June 2, 2025

Leaning in for Databricks ROI: A Practical Guide for Data-Driven Leadership

This article provides a practical, strategic framework for maximizing ROI from Databricks. It outlines how to avoid the mistakes many organizations make with the platform and offers a 3-pillar approach -- optimizing infrastructure, accelerating workflows, and aligning teams -- to transform Databricks from a high-cost tool into a high-impact business asset.

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Understanding Amazon Elastic VMware Service (EVS) and Its Practical Applications
David Fishman
June 1, 2025

Understanding Amazon Elastic VMware Service (EVS) and Its Practical Applications

As these organizations explore cloud options, a key consideration is how to integrate their existing VMware environments with cloud services without undergoing extensive re-platforming. Amazon Elastic VMware Service (EVS) is designed to address this need by allowing users to run their VMware workloads natively on AWS.

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AI Agents: How MCP is Standardizing Tool Use and Collaboration
Nick Chase
May 30, 2025

The API for AI Agents: How MCP is Standardizing Tool Use and Collaboration

This blog introduces the Model Context Protocol (MCP), a new standard for enabling seamless collaboration between AI agents by unifying how they access tools and context. It explains how MCP breaks down integration silos, supports dynamic workflows, and fits into the growing ecosystem of AI interoperability protocols—paving the way for truly intelligent, multi-agent systems.

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A Business Leader’s Guide to AWS App Modernization
Nick Chase
May 28, 2025

From Legacy to Leading Edge: A Business Leader’s Guide to AWS App Modernization

In today's relentlessly evolving business landscape, technology has decisively shifted from a mere support function to the very engine of business strategy and competitive differentiation. The pressure is immense: deliver value faster, pivot with market dynamics, and satisfy ever-increasing customer expectations. Businesses that can harness technology effectively will lead, while those that don't risk falling behind. This is where the concept of application modernization becomes not just relevant, but critical.

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AI adoption is booming—but so are the risks. Discover how C-level leaders can align AI innovation with security, compliance, and long-term resilience
Valery Levchenko
May 12, 2025

AI Security is Business Security: How to Future-Proof Your AI Investments

AI is transforming business—but unsecured AI introduces major risks. Learn how to future-proof your AI investments with strategic security, governance, and compliance.

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Discover how data accessibility transforms AI process agents from basic bots to powerful business assets. Learn practical integration strategies for real impact.
Nick Chase
April 25, 2025

How the Right Data Makes AI Process Agents Effective

Unlock the full potential of AI process agents with strategic data access. No rip-and-replace needed—just smarter integrations and cross-functional visibility.

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AI Crash Course
Nick Chase
March 28, 2025

AI Crash Course Recap

AI agents are becoming practical tools that autonomously perform tasks, support decision-making, and adapt to business needs. By starting with focused, high-value use cases and ensuring strong data governance and human oversight, organizations can unlock real value while building long-term capability.

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Discover the four foundational pillars of a data-centric approach to AI—quality data, robust pipelines, continuous feedback, and data governance—to build scalable, high-performing AI systems.
Nick Chase
March 26, 2025

Four Key Pillars of a Data-Centric Approach to AI

A data-centric approach to AI prioritizes improving data quality over tweaking models or code. As AI shifts toward unstructured data like text and images, traditional tools fall short. Data and analytics architects can address these challenges using four key pillars: data preparation and exploratory analysis, feature engineering, data labeling and annotation, and data augmentation. These pillars enable the creation of high-quality, AI-ready datasets, enhanced by modern tools like automation, low-code platforms, and synthetic data generation for scalable, intelligent systems.

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Discover the differences between AI agents and RPA, their strengths, limitations, and how combining them can unlock smarter automation, improve efficiency, and drive innovation across business operations.
Nick Chase
March 20, 2025

AI Agents vs. RPA: Decoding the Automation Revolution

Explore the critical differences between AI agents and RPA. Learn their strengths, limitations, and how businesses can combine both to drive intelligent, scalable, and future-ready automation strategies.

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Explore key layers of AI architecture—Data, Model, and Deployment. Learn about their roles, open-source tools, and commercial solutions that power AI agents in real-world applications
Nick Chase
March 17, 2025

Architecting AI Agents: A Developer's View

AI agents rely on a layered architecture: Data (storage & retrieval), Model (learning & decision-making), and Deployment (scalability & reliability). Developers must choose between open-source tools (flexibility) and commercial solutions (support & integration).

Key considerations include context management, prompt engineering, error handling, security, and scalability. AI agents are transforming customer service, sales, and software development, with future trends pointing toward specialized AI, proactive automation, and AI-assisted coding.

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Balancing Kubernetes Reliability vs. Cost Optimization in the Real World  

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Is it true that artificial intelligence can make business intelligence a little bit more... well, intelligent? The challenge: Get system data from one business process to tell you more about your other systems and business processes — using reports and dashboards you already have (even unstructured data). Rewatch experts Rob Giardina of Claritype Founder and Nick Chase of Cloudgeometry in a deep dive unlock the power of LLMs with a Standardized Data Model.
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AI for Better BI with the Data you Already Have

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This three-part series introduces the principles of securing AI systems. It covers foundational AI security concepts, provides a strategic overview of secure GenAI system deployment, and addresses future-proofing techniques to ensure safe and resilient AI architectures.
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