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Snowflake Buys Crunchy Data for $250m, Databricks Buys Neon for $1B. The New AI Database Battle.

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The Neon team engineered a new database architecture that offers speed, elastic scaling, and branching and forking. ” Snowflake’s Enterprise-Focused Approach Snowflake’s strategy targets enterprise customers and government agencies. .”

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RAG Explained: What Is Retrieval-Augmented Generation?

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By avoiding constant fine-tuning, RAG saves engineering effort and computing resources while still delivering accurate outputs. (An Haystack is known for being enterprise-ready and scalable its written in Python and has support for REST API deployment, streaming, and batching.

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The Playbook for Going Upmarket with Stripe’s CRO and Checkr’s COO

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Thinking enterprise is just a go-to-market play. Enterprise buyers: Need predictability in pricing Want to buy solutions, not features Require modularity and customization Have completely different procurement processes The key is to repackage your components into enterprise-ready solutions. It’s not.

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LangChain vs LlamaIndex vs Flowise: Top LLM Frameworks Compared

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Prompt Management : Handling prompt templates, examples, few-shot engineering, and variable substitution in a structured way. Orchestration frameworks may provide agent patterns where the model can decide to call a calculator, search engine, or CRM API as part of its reasoning. However, it is not a fully independent engine.

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Best Applicant Tracking Systems for 2025

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Pros AI Recommendations Engine: Manatals AI helps surface the best candidates for a role by analyzing data patterns, which is incredibly useful for HR teams overwhelmed by large applicant volumes. Just be ready to invest a little time in training your team on the systems nuances.

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The Wild Ride of Informatica: 32 Years, 2 IPOs, to $8 Billion Acquisition by Salesforce

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Market conditions: Informatica’s stock had dropped 59% since failed talks Strategic necessity: AI agents need data governance to be enterprise-ready Competitive pressure: Microsoft, Google, and others are building similar stacks Financial discipline: $2B+ savings from previous asking price Classic patient capital strategy.

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What’s New At WorkOS and What It Takes To Be “Enterprise-Ready” in SaaS with WorkOS CEO and Founder Michael Grinich

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In this new SaaStr series called “What’s new at…,” Jason Lemkin chats with WorkOS CEO and founder Michael Grinich about what it takes to be Enterprise ready in SaaS, building vs. buying, and who the stakeholders are in a B2D motion. They offer all the features you need to sell to Enterprise customers.