Tag: fde
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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…
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