We are back from San Francisco and still buzzing with excitement from our first stop on the SnapLogic Integreat Tour in 2024. The event was a melting pot of innovation, where industry leaders, tech enthusiasts, and SnapLogic customers gathered to explore the future of enterprise technology. From hands-on workshops creating GenAI applications to insightful talks about a new kind of enterprise enhanced with autonomous, LLM-enabled agents, the day was packed with learning and inspiration.
Let’s dive into the top five takeaways from Integreat 24, where we explore how organizations are overcoming data and technology challenges, leveraging GenAI in practical ways, and transforming into agentic enterprises.
1. The agents are upon us
The keynote sessions set the stage for what is possible with GenAI in the enterprise. Not just possible in the future, but right now. However, as pointed out by SnapLogic’s CEO, Gaurav Dhillon, for many organizations there are persistent data and technology issues to overcome before being “AI-ready,” specifically the modernization of legacy systems and migration to cloud-based environments. 54% of AI projects are not deployed and those that are take at least 8 months to make it to production.
So how does a company go from getting data AI-ready to becoming an agentic enterprise? As introduced by SnapLogic CTO Jeremiah Smith, there are 4 essential components to this alchemy:
- Data integration
- Integration platform as a service (iPaaS)
- Artificial intelligence
- API management
Even better if you could manage these elements through one platform, which set up the biggest announcement of the day, the launch of SnapLogic’s newest, most powerful GenAI companion. SnapLogic Agent Creator is an innovative solution that empowers enterprises to design, deploy, and manage autonomous AI agents that seamlessly integrate into existing workflows.
Learn more in the latest blog: Say Hello to Your Autonomous Workforce With SnapLogic Agent Creator
2. The importance of legacy modernization for GenAI
Getting AI-ready is a concern across all industries and business functions. Presentations from SnapLogic customers Amerisure and Arizona State University touched on the foundational importance of modernizing legacy systems and taking advantage of cloud solutions to improve data operations and user experiences.
Christopher Lowe, Vice President of Application Engineering, and Michael Fortuna, Director of Engineering at Amerisure, discussed how the insurance giant leveraged SnapLogic’s integration platform to support the company’s ambitious revenue and innovation growth. Faced with mounting technical debt and fragile integrations, the team at Amerisure was able to quickly and significantly expand their integration footprint using 90% out of the box Snap integrations and 5 new integration patterns, ultimately tripling the number of real-time integrations in production.
Todd Petersen, Director of Data Analytics, Data Analysis & Visualization at Arizona State University (ASU) spoke to the university’s data-driven transformation, enabled by integration and business process automation, to support personalized, innovative student experiences.
3. GenAI trailblazers are seeing results, today
SnapLogic customers and partners were on hand with real-life success stories of using the AI-enabled platform to streamline processes, cut costs, and make strides toward an agentic future.
Enabling IT to reduce backlog and focus on innovative solutions with AI
In the technical breakout, Patrick Alpers, VP, IT Solution Architect from Independent Bank explained how they used the SnapLogic Platform for Generative Integration to:
- Reduce the time to build, test and deploy integrations from months to days
- Scale the number of active integrations by leaps and bounds
- Cut IT help desk tickets significantly and deploy multiple AI agents
Get the whole story in the case study: From Faster IT to an Army of AI Agents at Independent Bank
Modernizing integration, reducing compounding data costs, and activating AI for sales intelligence
Spirent’s business breakout session, led by Matt Bostrom, VP of Enterprise Technology & Strategy highlighted how the global technology provider has seen a number of positive results, including:
- 25% increase in business intelligence worker productivity
- 5% increase in sales productivity
- 90% reduction in integration platform maintenance costs
- Saving an annual $144,000 on AI subscription feeds for the sales team
Learn more about AI-powered business intelligence in the case study: Spirent Modernizes Integration, Cuts Costs, and Activates GenAI With SnapLogic’s Unified Platform
Transforming data processing and translation with tailored GenAI applications
A SnapLogic technology administration partner for health benefits and pensions, Aptia announced how used the Agent Creator to:
- Automate lengthy data entra processes by streamlining resource intensive and time-consuming work into minutes
- Develop LLM-powered services to accelerate customer delivery
- Future-proof its AI strategy and expand AI-driven offerings
Dive into the details in the announcement: Aptia Streamlines Customer Claims With New Enterprise GenAI Applications Created With SnapLogic
4. Support from expert technology partners is critical
As enterprises scale their operations and move to the cloud, providing seamless connectivity and unlocking actionable insights from vast data reserves becomes critical for driving revenue growth and capturing market share. And it takes a village. SnapLogic’s thriving ecosystem implementation, data migration and cloud services partners offered their voices to the conversation as well.
In a panel session on practical advice for implementing GenAI, Bear Douglas, Director of Developer Relations at Pinecone, Arni Raghvender, Director of Cloud & AI Innovation at AWS, Eldad Chai, CEO at Satori Cyber and Satish Hegde, Sr. Director, AI & Analytics at Cognizant, discussed foundational considerations, covering:
- Strategy
- Architecture
- Operations
- Security
- Seamless integration
A panel with Sheila Daly, VP, Delivery Services at CLEAResult and Murali Muddana, VP, Software Engineering at Consilio, featured the SnapLogic partners discussing how their customer analytics teams at are utilizing the platform to:
- Easily source data from a variety of endpoints
- Harness the power of the cloud
- Gain game-changing insights that are propelling their businesses forward
The latest from on Agent Creator from AWS: Unlocking Generative AI for enterprises: How SnapLogic powers their low-code Agent Creator Using Amazon Bedrock
5. Seeing is believing
There’s no substitute for hands-on learning, live product demos and in-person discussions. Luckily, the show continues in London next week, featuring speakers from Lego, the Olympic Channel, Spotify, AstraZeneca, Dentsu, Syngenta, Siemens Healthineers and more. Want to join us and take your organization into the agentic future? Register for Integreat 2024 in London.
Let SnapLogic enable your Agentic Enterprise. Book a demo today.
