Tag: fde
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Lock-in by FDE
”The FDE engagement, generally, is that a company has an AI product and goes to the end user site, and part of the deal is they’re going to be learning things as they implement. They’re going to take back certain knowledge that makes the product better. But there’s a fine line." There is a risk…
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Gartner is not a fan of FDEs
By 2028, 70% of enterprises will abandon agentic AI built by vendor forward-deployed engineering (FDE), trapped by soaring costs and unable to evolve it on their own according to Gartner, Inc., a business and technology insights company. Vendor FDE is a model in which vendor engineers work directly with customers to build and deploy solutions.…
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FDEs help one customer solve problems, then kick that back into the platform for all customers
The FDE is a developer who ‘sits with’ their users, applies customizations – but importantly – feeds these changes back to the core platform to decide whether the platform should be enhanced for everyone else. And, from the OP: Keeping the customer happy is a real job and a good one. It belongs to solutions…
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Relative to your interests, Tuesday
I have been on vacation for a little while, in Finland for the third time. Finland feels different than the other parts of Europe I have been to. Perhaps it’s because I spent my time there in rural Finland. But it also feels like most of Finland is rural. In that way, it feels a…
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Elusive Enterprise AI ROI: bring in the FDEs
Enterprise AI needs a lot of custom fitting and one off integration, so you need a lot of post-sales engineering. On the one hand, this is lock-in in the making, but lock-in to your own, stack. You build a stack that is unique to you. On the other hand, it means you get exactly what…