The twenty-first episode of the podcast you know and love as "We Love Ugly Data!" is out. It's available in audio form everywhere you get your podcasts from and additionally in video form via YouTube (which we've embedded below). This time, the format is different, as Alan and Dan join Matt to discuss the five winners of this year's Deep Analysis Innovation Awards.

In this month's special episode:

Winner: Hyperscience

First up, Dan talks about Hyperscience and its Hypercell for GenAI, which helps organizations process large volumes of data ready for use in GenAI applications.

Winner: ai12z

Next, Matt outlines why AI12z is among this year's winners. Their approach to generative AI enables not only mid-market customers but also the systems integrators that service them to deliver AI assistants and agents.

Winner: Rossum

Dan's back to introduce Rossum's award and discuss its T-LLM (Transactional LLM) model, which it built from millions of transactional business documents.

Winner: Composable

Matt introduces Composable as the next award winner, explaining how the company focuses on organizations that have outgrown the available tooling for their AI application development and need Composable's help managing the plethora of models and inference suppliers that those heavily invested in developing GenAI applications in-house need to work with.

Winner: UiPath

Finally, Dan explains why UiPath won this year's awards for its DocPath and CommPath AI models, which were launched earlier this year.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nT0RtYNIFGQ

Show notes for Series 3, Episode 11.

Innovations Awards Related Links!
Download the full Innovation Awards report.

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The twentieth episode of the podcast that you know and love as "We Love Ugly Data!" is out; available in audio form everywhere you get your podcasts from and additionally 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 just below the embedded video. Matt and Alan are back again, this time discussing; the latest vendor research reports on DRUID, M-Files and Writer, how automation and AI agents are friends forever and the (really positive) state of the automation software market in Brazil.

In this month's episode:

Topic 1: New Vendor Research!

First up, Matt and Alan discuss the recently published set of vendor profiles (or whatever it is we're supposed to call them these days). DRUID is up first; an all-in-one platform for the development of conversational AI assistants and agents, which can be embedded into business processes. M-Files is a Microsoft-focused knowledge work automation that provides an innovative “no-folders” approach to document and knowledge management. Finally, Writer enables enterprises to create custom GenAI applications to assist workers in producing precise, detailed, and compliant content which can be plugged into routine tasks to help streamline processes (it's also out there raising an apparently huge funding round right now and - as Alan notes - is also an acquisition target right now too). Matt also mention Writer is one of a host of vendors now using synthetic data to speed up development new models (with all the potential issues that creates).

Topic 2: AI Agents and Automation; forever friends

Following on from last month's discussion about AI Agents in the run-up to Salesforce's Dreamforce conference, Matt's published something wrapping up how integral automation (think workflow, RPA etc) is to the success of any AI Agent exercise and the pair discuss their takes on how those efforts might play out for those looking to adopt. There's a chance to have a look at the Agentforce announcements in the rear-view mirror, reviewing the takes from Matt in his home office at the east Kent seaside and Alan on the ground in San Francisco.

Topic 3: Automation in Brazil

Back in August Alan visited Brazil to speak and catch-up with the state of the automation software market in the country (the world's 8th or 9th biggest economy, depending on whether you're using the IMF of the World Bank's numbers). Turns out that it is thriving and in the context of the other discussions about AI Agents, this puts the country in a potentially advantageous position.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fkvWyu0e1s4

Show notes for Series 3, Episode 10.

Topic 1: New Vendor Research!
"New Research Dropping Today" blog post (with summaries of the three profiles).
The Deep Analysis vendor research database; links to all the vendor research we've published (you can browse as a non subscriber, but you'll need to be a subscriber to get the full reports).
The CNBC report "AI startup Writer, currently fundraising at a $1.9

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The nineteenth 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 a new research report we've just released on AI and unstructured data, how AI agents are coming and how they might be after your wallet, and the dos and don'ts of storytelling when you're presenting your software product.

In this month's episode:

Topic 1: AI & Unstructured Data, Survey Out Now

First up, Matt and Alan discuss the brand new report that Deep Analysis has collaborated on with AIIM and MFiles; "Market Momentum Index: AI and Unstructured Data Management". The report - which you can download from AIIM or MFiles directly - provides insight into the adoption and use of AI in organizations and provides information on how those same organizations manage unstructured data for AI and their view of its importance. They pick up on a couple of data points on AI adoption and how vast the sprawl of unstructured data is across IT estates (as well as mentioning that there's more related research already in the works).

Topic 2: Agents and Cash

In the second topic this month, Matt has recently posted a new blog post, "Here are the agents. They've come to collect," about a shift in how AI is likely to be paid for as the generative wave moves from assistants to agents. With Salesforce's "Dreamforce" conference only days away at the time of recording (and neatly avoiding saying anything that will break any news embargos), the pair chat about how the economics had shifted from when we first predicted a metered future for generative AI a year ago and the company's announcement of its "hard pivot" to AI agents with Agentforce. Matt also tries to extend an analogy about buffets far too far for its own good.

Topic 3: Analyst Briefings, Dos and Don'ts (Pt 2)

Over recent podcasts, Matt, Alan, and Dan discussed their dos and don'ts for analyst briefings (which we recently rounded up here, so you don't have to search through old podcasts to find them). It turned out to be quite popular, so to try and help further - and inspired by Dan's suggestion that good storytelling was a definite do - here Matt and Alan suggest their suggestions for dos and don'ts. It sadly quickly heads off-piste, and you end up with further conference recommendations (that we covered in part previously).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iaU_jlchk1M

Show notes for Series 3, Episode 9.

Topic 1: AI & Unstructured Data, Survey Out Now
Our Market Mome

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