AI Technology Archives

Artefact White Paper “The Agentic AI Advantage in Healthcare: Accelerating Pharma’s HCP-Centric Marketing from Insight to Outcome”

Artefact’s new ebook, The Agentic AI Advantage in Healthcare: Accelerating Pharma’s HCP-Centric Marketing from Insight to Outcome, demonstrates that agentic AI represents a major step forward in solving these challenges. While traditional generative AI focuses on creating content, agentic AI can take action. It receives goals and constraints, reasons strategically, and executes tasks autonomously within the guardrails of compliance and approved data sources. Agentic AI elevates AI from a productivity tool to a business performance engine.

Artefact White Paper “ESG in action: Turning sustainability data into business intelligence”

Over the past decade, sustainability shifted from the periphery of corporate reputation to the core of business performance. Artefact’s new ebook, ESG in Action, How to convert Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) data into business intelligence, documents this transition through semi-structured interviews with C-suite leaders from global companies such as Accor, Legrand, Tarkett, Ardian, Heineken, Siplec and Schenker, as well as insights from the OECD and Artefact’s sustainability and data experts.

Will the Future of Agentic AI rely on Knowledge Graphs?

As enterprises rush to operationalize AI, most discover that their data infrastructure was never designed for autonomous reasoning. Today, up to 80% of AI implementation time is spent on data wrangling and schema alignment, a symptom of infrastructures built for storage, not understanding. Without a foundation that captures relationships and meaning, agents will remain powerful, but blind. With AI agents becoming active participants in enterprise workflows, the nature and scale of data querying are evolving.

Shaping AI strategy in Energy & Industry

For the last 18 months, 'Generative AI' has dominated every C-level strategy session. But what if that's already the old conversation? In the energy and industry sectors, the discussion is rapidly shifting from GenAI to Agentic AI. This isn't just an incremental update; it's a new paradigm, one that moves from simply augmenting tasks to completely reinventing core industrial processes.

AI-Controlled Ads: The Future of Advertising

When OpenAI announced Atlas, its new ChatGPT-powered browser, it didn’t just launch another product. It opened a door, one that leads into the next era of human-computer interaction, and, inevitably, into a new frontier for advertising.

Data Platforms for the Agentic Era

Most companies are not ready to replace a dashboard era data stack with an AI stack. Salesforce's latest State of Data & Analytics indicates that 84% of data and analytics leaders say their strategies require a complete overhaul before AI ambitions can succeed. Leaders estimate that 26% of their data is untrustworthy, only 43% report formal data governance frameworks, and around 50% are not confident in their ability to generate and deliver timely insights. At the same time 70% believe the most valuable insights are locked in unstructured data. The conclusion is straightforward: the obstacle is not enthusiasm but foundation, and that foundation must change before agentic systems can scale.

Enriching the DIY experience: How ADEO uses AI to connect content and knowledge

Assortment optimization is a critical process in retail that involves curating the ideal mix of products to meet consumer demand while taking into account the many logistics constraints involved. The retailers need to make sure that they offer the right products, in the right quantities, at the right time. By leveraging data and consumer insights, retailers can make informed decisions on which items to stock, how to manage inventory, and what products to prioritize based on customer preferences, seasonal trends, and sales patterns.

MotherDuck Explained: How the Next-Gen AI & Analytics Solution Fits Into Your Data Stack

MotherDuck extends DuckDB's analytical performance to the cloud with collaborative features, delivering 4x faster performance than BigQuery and cost savings over traditional data warehouses through serverless, pay-per-use pricing. Following the announcement of MotherDuck’s new European cloud region, we were impressed by its performance and attractive pricing. MotherDuck can already be integrated into your gold layers in order to accelerate the serving of data use cases while saving costs at the same time. See performance benchmark.

How AI is changing search and what it means for customers, marketers and brands

AI is transforming search, shifting it from ranking and retrieval towards reasoning and synthesis. This whitepaper charts this evolution, explains the mechanics of large language models (LLMs), and sets out the implications for marketers and brands. At the center of the new measurement landscape is the golden triangle of MROI: Marketing mix modeling (MMM) provides the strategic view, quantifying the impact of marketing on sales and offering optimizers and simulators to guide budget allocation. Incrementality testing validates whether campaigns truly drive additional outcomes, using test-versus-control experiments to establish causality. It also calibrates both MMM and attribution models. Attribution informs in-flight optimization by assigning credit across customer journeys. In 2025, advanced models use deep learning and attention mechanisms to capture channel interactions more effectively. These methodologies are most powerful when used together: MMM for long-term planning, incrementality for ground truth, and attribution for real-time agility. Companies also face the decision of in-housing vs. SaaS solutions. In-housing brings customization and control but requires talent and investment, while SaaS offers speed and expertise. The right choice depends on resources and data maturity. Real-world examples highlight best practices: Google’s Meridian introduces an open-source MMM toolkit to improve calibration, upper-funnel measurement, and bias correction. Accor uses incrementality testing to question assumptions and optimize budget allocation. Nike demonstrates the power of persistence and cultural change, embedding measurement into processes and democratizing insights. Artefact stresses the 95-5 rule, showing how brand equity measurement links long-term growth with short-term performance efficiency. Looking forward, five trends will shape measurement: improved data quality, new frameworks for retail media and connected TV, in-housed MMM with testing, privacy-first approaches, and attention-based metrics. The conclusion is clear: marketing measurement is now a strategic enabler. By integrating methodologies, embedding them in culture, and focusing on both performance and brand, CMOs can defend their budgets and unlock sustainable growth.