It all sounds pretty exciting, doesn’t it? The promises of generative AI to transform business operations and efficiency across industries via automation, workflow co-pilots, and even autonomous agents.
Unfortunately just getting started has proven to be somewhat tricky. Successfully implementing and activating GenAI is a significant challenge for many companies. Despite its transformative potential, enterprises often need help with fragmented data, siloed applications, and complex workflows. These obstacles hinder the ability to harness GenAI’s full scope of capabilities, leading to suboptimal performance and missed opportunities.
So what’s the secret recipe for success? In a word: integration. The seamless connection of applications and data is crucial to overcoming these challenges and unlocking the true power of GenAI. Let’s explore how integration is driving the AI revolution.
Keys to GenAI Success
The foundation of a successful GenAI project is the effective integration of both applications and data to maximize its potential across the business ecosystem. The key benefits that a well-integrated system provides include:
- Unified data for smarter AI
- Connected applications for action
- Automated workflows
- Scalability and flexibility
Unified, quality data: GenAI relies on data to fuel everything from predictions to decision-making. With data scattered across systems, integration ensures GenAI models can access complete, real-time information, driving smarter, more actionable insights.
Connected applications: For GenAI systems to add value, they need to be embedded into existing enterprise workflows and applications. This involves integrating GenAI with business-critical systems like ERP, CRM, etc. Application integration ensures these systems communicate, enabling GenAI to provide real-time recommendations and automate tasks across the enterprise.
Autonomous workflows: GenAI agents work best when integrated into workflows, automating tasks from beginning to end. When data and applications are unified, GenAI agents can then drive end-to-end automation across both legacy systems and modern cloud apps.
Scalability and flexibility: As your AI capabilities expand, so will the need to integrate more applications and data sources. A flexible, low-code integration platform allows enterprises to quickly integrate new systems and ensure the ability to scale with confidence.
These pieces create the foundation for experimentation with GenAI, no matter how it evolves.
How the integrator’s role will evolve with GenAI
As GenAI becomes central to enterprise operations, the role of integrators will shift from connecting isolated systems to orchestrating intelligent ecosystems. Integrators will play a pivotal role as:
AI workflow architects: In the GenAI era, integrators won’t just connect systems—they’ll design and orchestrate intelligent workflows that allow AI-powered apps, assistants, and agents to operate seamlessly, across a variety of environments.
Real-time AI activators: Integrators will ensure that data and application integration happen in real time, which is crucial for the speed and agility that GenAI requires. They’ll play a critical role in ensuring that GenAI systems can react instantly to new information.
Strategic AI enablers: Moving forward, integrators will be the strategic partners in helping enterprises unlock the full potential of GenAI by integrating new data sources, platforms, and applications that can fuel innovation and growth.
One platform to meet the moment
SnapLogic integrates both data and applications in one platform, breaking down silos and ensuring GenAI systems have the real-time access they need. Our AI-powered, low-code platform helps integrators rapidly connect systems, to help their organizations accelerate GenAI deployments and stay ahead of the competition.
Learn more about our generative integration platform, and how it can empower your business to reach new heights with the support of unified systems and opportunities to activate GenAI.
Join us at Integreat 2024 to continue the discussion
Ready to hear more? Join us for the SnapLogic Integreat Tour 2024 and get firsthand advice from companies that have leveraged integration as the jumpoff point for successful deployments of GenAI-powered apps, assistants and agents.
San Francisco, October 23
Session: Ready, Set, AI: Deploying GenAI Applications into Production with Spirent
Spirent Communications, a multinational provider of automated test and assurance solutions, will share how they successfully launched their automated GenAI business intelligence application, seamlessly and promptly integrating it with their CRM using SnapLogic. Learn best practices for deploying GenAI applications into production and discover the transformative power of GenAI.
Session: Best Practices for Building an Agentic Enterprise
Discover how Independent Bank has transformed IT operations by leveraging the SnapLogic integration platform and GenAI. In this session, you’ll learn how Independent Bank is setting new standards in innovation with AI-powered agents orchestrating multiple LLMs, driving operational efficiency like never before. Learn how their help desk agent slashed IT tickets by 60% and voice calls by 20% within just weeks of deployment. With over a dozen AI agents already in production and more than 40 in the pipeline, Independent Bank is not just adopting technology but redefining the future of enterprise IT.
London, November 7
Session: AI Changes Everything – How AstraZeneca is Revolutionising Their Data, IT & Every Enterprise Business Operation to Deliver Leading Innovation in Healthcare
Brian Dummann, VP IT & Chief Data Officer at AstraZeneca, will share how the global, science-led pharmaceutical company is transforming the enterprise with AI innovation impacting their data, developers and every IT touchpoint. Sharing key insights into how AI is reshaping everything, Brian will discuss industry-leading AI use cases and share how accurate data management is key to unlocking AI’s full potential for their business.You’ll gain practical takeaways on the innovative applications of Generative AI, data readiness, and the evolving role of the IT organisation.
Session: Turning the Tedious into Seamless: Automating End-to-End Business Processes at Dentsu
Join Mark Clare, Head of Architecture at Dentsu, as he shares how they tackled the massive challenge of integrating 600+ entities into a cohesive, efficient model. Discover how Dentsu partnered with SnapLogic to deliver an end-to-end solution that streamlined operations, broke down silos, and drove business value. Mark will also explore how Dentsu is leveraging AI, automation, and cutting-edge data management to enhance operational efficiency and elevate their business processes.
All this and more at Integreat 2024. See you there!
