Sep 11, 2023 | San Diego

The brand new pure language interface, now in non-public preview, delivers the convenience of use required to democratize cloud analytics for elevated agility, sooner innovation and higher decision-making

Teradata (NYSE: TDC) as we speak introduced ask.ai, a brand new generative AI functionality for VantageCloud Lake. The pure language interface is designed to permit anybody with authorized entry to ask questions of their firm’s information and obtain immediate responses from VantageCloud Lake, essentially the most full cloud analytics and information platform for AI. By lowering the necessity for advanced coding and querying, ask.ai can dramatically enhance productiveness, velocity and effectivity for technical customers and expands analytic use to non-technical roles, who can now additionally use Teradata’s highly effective, cloud-native platform to sift via mountains of information and draw insights. The elevated use of information and analytics by way of VantageCloud Lake can drive breakthrough improvements that positively influence enterprise outcomes. 

The mainstreaming of pure language interfaces has set new expectations for the flexibility to assemble, perceive and use info, even inside advanced enterprise environments and outdoors of conventional technical roles. Implementing these generative AI capabilities and increasing entry can save worker time and enhance productiveness.

Generative AI instruments are solely as helpful as an enterprise’s underlying analytic capabilities and high quality of the information units. The harmonized information method and wealthy in-database analytics that Teradata supplies in VantageCloud Lake is designed to make sure that ask.ai delivers correct and complete outcomes, enabling trusted cloud analytics for extra assured decision-making at each degree. 

“Teradata ask.ai for VantageCloud Lake permits enterprises to shortly get to the worth of their information, wherever it’s, and democratizes AI and ML” mentioned Hillary Ashton, Teradata’s Chief Product Officer. “Teradata was not too long ago known as out by Forrester for its sturdy imaginative and prescient and technique that features AI/ML at scale* and now Teradata ask.ai takes this even additional with a dramatic enchancment in productiveness and ease of use. Enterprises select Teradata’s open and linked platform which empowers AI and ML at large scale, harmonizes information, and delivers a price-per-query benefit.”

VantageCloud Lake’s generative AI capabilities in ask.ai allow workers with authorized entry, from any operate and at any degree, to investigate and visualize information, analyze metadata, map tables for becoming a member of, generate code and extra. Even technical consultants ought to expertise advantages: system directors can save time and enhance productiveness by merely asking questions, and information scientists might even see accelerated improvement and productiveness by eliminating the necessity to manually write code. For each state of affairs and function, Teradata’s sturdy governance capabilities are designed to make sure applicable entry and safety.

Key use instances embody: 

• Knowledge Insights: Teradata ask.ai permits faster information exploration and insights. Customers can ask questions in pure language and obtain immediate responses, eliminating the necessity to manually assemble queries and scripts.
• Mannequin and Code-generation: These with out intensive coding expertise can now create code snippets by expressing their intention in pure language, democratizing the method of information analytics. Knowledge scientists will see accelerated improvement by lowering the necessity to manually write code, which can be supposed to cut back syntax errors, enhance code consistency, and improve common productiveness as builders can concentrate on high-level logic and problem-solving. 
• System Administration: It turns into simpler and sooner to retrieve system info associated to VantageCloud Lake, resembling surroundings and compute teams. An administrator can login and easily ask questions in regards to the system (resembling, “What’s the state?” or “What’s the present consumption?”) as if talking to an knowledgeable colleague. 
• Metadata Evaluation: Teradata ask.ai can present info on desk design, making it simpler to discover datasets and schemas, serving to customers perceive the nuances in information attributes and current relationships between datasets. This makes it sooner to know the information out there for constructing analytics, offering deeper insights. 
• Assist: Any person can ask for assistance on all kinds of matters, together with common documentation, questions on what Teradata features exist in a specific database, detailed descriptions for a specific operate, SQL era for that operate, and extra.

Availability

Teradata ask.ai is at the moment out there for choose VantageCloud Lake on Azure prospects. Expanded entry, by way of non-public preview, to VantageCloud Lake on AWS is forthcoming and common availability for all VantageCloud Lake prospects is predicted within the first half of 2024. 

*The Forrester Wave™: Cloud Knowledge Warehouses, Q2 2023