We Love Ugly Data! The Deep Analysis Podcast - Episode 18 August 2024

The eighteenth episode of the podcast that you know and love as “We Love Ugly Data!” is out; available everywhere you get your podcasts from and, of course, in video form via YouTube (which we’ve embedded below). As always, it’s three topics in (just a touch over) 30 minutes, and the show notes are, as usual, included in the embedded video below. This time around, Matt and Alan are in the chairs, discussing 4 new Vendor Profiles (Tungsten Automation, Cognaize, Composable, and iGrafx), catching up on how the meeting of unstructured data and generative AI is working out, and – our second edition of – Analyst Briefings; Do’s and Don’ts.

In this month’s episode:

Topic 1: New Research!

We recently published the latest batch of profiles for our Vendor Analysis research (the artist formerly known as Vendor Vignettes, although we often forget that that’s supposed to be the former title and still use the phrase all the time). Here, Matt and Alan discuss the new profiles on Tungsten Automation, Cognaize, Composable, and iGrafx (a real mix of the old and the brand new here).

Topic 2: GenAI and Data: an update

Matt has just begun his third year with Deep Analysis, and to celebrate, he and Alan look at the path that generative AI and its intersection with unstructured data have taken over the last few years: from the first flush of “isn’t it amazing/scary!” to “here’s a complicated way to avoid asking it anything much” and onto the exciting world of agents and large action models.

Topic 3: Analyst Briefings, Do’s and Don’ts (Pt 2)

As analysts, we spend much of our time briefed by software vendors. Last month, Dan and Matt discussed the dos and don’ts of presenting your company and products to analysts, and now, it’s Alan’s turn to pitch in with his free advice on the subject.

Show notes for Series 3, Episode 7.

Topic 1: New Research!
Here’s the intro blog for the new vendor research: New Research.
Subscribers have access to all the vendor research, but you can browse the catalog here.
Dan’s blog post heavily features Cognaize, as discussed in the previous pod.
If you’d like access to the Composable profile, you can download it for free!

Topic 2: GenAI and Data: an update
Matt’s first blog post from (almost)2 years ago; “AI-Enabled BizApps driving the next wave of adoption.”
“The AI with a two-track mind” (AI without access to business data is a “parlor trick”).
“Models and the RAG trade” (the 5 micro ages of massive models).