Data Platforms
Data Observability
Stop Cleaning Up Your Clickstream Data. Let Claude Ship It Clean.
Every product team has the same recurring nightmare. A PM opens Mixpanel to answer a simple question — how many users completed onboarding last week — and finds three events that could plausibly mean “completed onboarding”: Onboarding Complete, onboarding_finished, and Completed Setup. None of them is documented. Two of them stopped firing in March. The …
Data Platforms
Built for the enterprise, ready for AI: Under the hood of Monte Carlo’s platform updates
The enterprise data and AI stack is heterogeneous by design Enterprise data stacks don’t fit into one cloud, one network, or one security review template — and they’re not going to start. Monte Carlo has 400+ enterprise customers — Nasdaq, Salesforce, and American Airlines among them — and few share the same architecture: multiple public …
Data Observability
How to make Claude a trusted analyst for your whole company
Every data leader is being asked the same question right now: “Can’t we just point Claude at our warehouse and let everyone ask their own questions?” The naive version works for about a week. Then two execs ask the same question and get two different numbers, Claude joins the wrong tables and answers confidently anyway, …
Data Platforms
What is a Data Platform and How Do You Build One?
A data platform is a central repository and processing house for all of an organization's data. Here's how to build an awesome data platform.
Data Platforms
Open Source Business Intelligence Tools
Typically, an open-source BI tool is a limited version of another commercial product, or there may be additional, complementary tools to purchase.
AI Observability
What Is Model Context Protocol (MCP)? A Quick Start Guide.
You might not consider scalability a critical limitation of enterprise AI—but development velocity is undoubtedly at the top of executive agendas this year. Nearly every SaaS tool today comes with some sort of AI feature to expedite something or other—and that’s mostly a good thing. AI is unlocking new capabilities for teams of all sizes, …
Data Platforms
Data Warehouse vs Data Lake vs Data Lakehouse: Definitions, Similarities, and Differences
Struggling to decide whether to invest in a data warehouse vs. data lake vs. lakehouse? Here's everything you need to know to make this decision.
Data Platforms
Data Warehousing Guide: Fundamentals & Key Concepts
Data warehouses centralize all data within a company's data ecosystem and enable downstream consumers to drive analytical insights with it.
Data Platforms
The Future Of Business Intelligence: 5 Trends To Watch In 2026
As big data gets bigger, the pressure is on for modern business intelligence practices to keep pace. Is your company ready to take advantage?
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Agent Trust
What Is Agent Orchestration? A Practical Breakdown
Agent orchestration is the practice of coordinating multiple AI agents so they function as a single system. It governs the order agents act in, what information they share, when one agent hands a task to the next, and what rules apply across the whole group. In the last two years, AI agents have become increasingly …
Agent Trust
Building autonomous agent trust: RL, an agent fleet, and comprehensive observability
For many organizations, getting agents to successfully run in production, particularly to the extent that they can be trusted to be completely autonomous, seems like an insurmountable challenge. Agents look great in pilots, but once they are deployed live, issues inevitably emerge. Production is unpredictable; agents have to operate in conditions that cannot be anticipated …
Agent Trust
RAG vs Agentic AI: What’s the Difference and When to Use Each
Quick answer: RAG (retrieval-augmented generation) gives a language model better information to answer a single question, retrieving relevant data from an external source before it responds. Agentic AI gives a model the ability to act, planning multiple steps, using tools, and looping until a task is complete. In short: RAG improves what a model knows; …
AI Culture
Monte Carlo’s Enterprise Platform Updates: Coverage and Control Below the Agent Layer
Our enterprise customers are shipping agents in production at scale, and that raises the bar on everything underneath them. An agent is only as reliable as the data it reads and the guardrails on what it’s allowed to do with it. That’s why we continue to strengthen and expand the capabilities of our platform. Read …
AI Observability
The 17 Best AI Observability Tools in Aug 2026
Whether you're monitoring a handful of models or managing AI at enterprise scale, you need AI observability tools. Let's dive into it.
AI Observability
Prompt Versioning: Why Your AI Prompts Need the Same Rigor as Your Code
If your team is building anything powered by LLMs, there’s a good chance your prompts have already changed a dozen times since launch. Maybe someone tweaked a system message to fix a tone problem, or maybe an engineer added a new instruction to stop the model from hallucinating a feature that doesn’t exist. Perhaps even …