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Keeping agentic confidence in check - why Alation has launched the AIOS operating system

Since 2012, Alation has built a business around its enterprise Data Intelligence platform that provides tools to support metadata management, data governance, data lineage and data quality. A year ago, it acquired Numbers Station which has an agentic AI approach, honed at Stanford, to automate complex data workflows and generate SQL queries from natural language.

Just over a year of R&D later the combination of Alation’s metadata foundation with Number Station’s agents has led to the launch of AIOS as a system to allow agents to access data and apps that also ensures accuracy and counteracts issues such as drift, essentially a new operating system for enterprise AI.

An operating system for agents

Understandably enterprises are cautious about deploying production level AI because it involves unleashing non-deterministic software on enterprise data in a dynamic business context. What could possibly go wrong? As enterprises are increasingly aware, a lot could go...

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From cost centres to AI engines: How GCCs are driving enterprise reinvention

As GCCs move beyond their traditional role as cost and delivery hubs, they are increasingly becoming strategic engines for enterprise-wide transformation. The rise of AI and Agentic AI is accelerating this shift, pushing GCCs to rethink operating models, talent, data, governance and the very way work gets done. In this

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