Integrating Generative AI helps Ataccama become a leader in the 2024 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™

Challenge: Enriching Ataccama’s platform with Generative AI - strategically, with customer centricity, and with an agile AI team. 

In an era where digital-first strategies dictate market success, mastering data has become the cornerstone for growth and innovation. Ataccama prides itself on an AI-powered data management platform designed to empower data leaders to streamline, optimize, and effectively manage data. 

With the ambition to stay ahead in the data management domain, Ataccama was driven to explore cutting-edge technological advancements to:

• Enhance customer experiences,
• Expand the limits of automation,
• Minimize manual efforts in data maintenance.

Recognizing the potential of generative AI, Ataccama aimed to strategically integrate this technology into their platform, enhancing the user experience significantly and swiftly.

To achieve this, Ataccama sought to partner with AI experts who could enhance its internal AI team, provide agility, and bring new perspectives. 

Solution: Disruptive innovation with the agile support of Blindspot

By partnering up with Blindspot, Ataccama gained access to a broad spectrum of GenAI experts and our track record in deploying experimental technologies.

Over the course of 9 months, we supported Ataccama’s team in leveraging Large Language Models to streamline customer experience of their platform. 

This included leveraging GenAI in data management to: 

1) Enhance the user experience and reduce technical proficiency needed to set data quality rules:

Previously, many data quality and management tasks required expertise in SQL and domain-specific languages. We developed a natural language interface, which now allows even non-technical staff to handle various tasks like creating and assigning data quality rules, exploring data, and extracting metadata automatically. As a result, more people within the organization can contribute to data management, and the tasks are easier to complete.  

2) Boost users’ operational efficiency with an AI co-pilot:

We supported Ataccama in developing a GenAI co-pilot to automate data quality maintenance by automating complex data assessments and user-defined bulk operations. For example, the copilot can analyze a large set of data quality rules defined in natural language, automatically create them, and apply them to the client's data. As a result, key technical users can oversee and verify task outputs instead of being involved in each step, saving valuable time and increasing productivity.

Both innovations not only streamline operations but also reduce the time and effort required by users of the platform.

Results: Securing a Leading Position in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Augmented Data Quality Solutions 2024

Leveraging GenAI technologies helped Ataccama to secure its position at the forefront of the industry and rank among the leaders in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Augmented Data Quality Solutions 2024. 

By working with the team of Blindspot, Ataccama could flexibly leverage strategic GenAI experts to enrich their internal team with experience beyond their own business environment. This helped Ataccama with:

• Accelerating Innovation: Ataccama swiftly introduced new generative AI functionalities to its customers, staying ahead of market demands and expectations.
• Expanding Capacity Flexibly: By augmenting its internal AI team with external GenAI experts from Blindspot, Ataccama effectively increased its capacity to innovate without the immediate need for expanding the internal team.
• Minimizing Deployment Risks: Working with a partner specialized in AI helped Ataccama to navigate the complexities of the new technology while mitigating risks.

The partnership not only affirmed Ataccama's commitment to innovation but also demonstrated the tangible benefits of integrating generative AI into data management practices, setting a new standard for operational efficiency and customer engagement.

Client quote

“Our partnership with Blindspot has accelerated our path to integrating cutting-edge generative AI technologies into our platform and helped us to fundamentally innovate our services and bring additional value to our customers. Augmenting our internal AI team with external Blindspot experts broadened our perspective beyond our domain, enabling us to deliver solutions that truly stand apart in the market.”

- Roman Kučera, CTO, Ataccama