Executive Vice President & Chief Product Officer, Microstrategy
Search every verified Saurabh Abhyankar interview, podcast appearance, and on-the-record quote — each transcript cross-checked by AI and human review to confirm speaker identity. At MicroStrategy World 2024, Saurabh Abhyankar introduced "Auto," a new product that he said represents the transformation of the company's platform. He described Auto as using generative AI to provide linguistic skills, allowing it to understand users in multiple languages and access data based on user identity and context. Abhyankar stated that the product combines MicroStrategy's semantic graph and computation with OpenAI's large language model, along with a vector database he called the "knowledge store," to give the system memory. He also highlighted the expansion of HyperIntelligence, a Chrome and Edge extension that injects contextual information into web applications, and new plugins for Microsoft Excel, PowerPoint, and Teams. Abhyankar discussed the company's multi-cloud strategy, noting that MicroStrategy added Google Cloud support in December 2023, joining existing support for AWS and Azure. He said this makes the company "maybe the only BI company to provide a managed Cloud solution on all three hyperscalers." He also announced a free trial called Auto Express, available at express.microstrategy.com, which allows users to build digital bots using sample or uploaded data. Abhyankar characterized MicroStrategy's core value as "freedom," including freedom of technology and freedom for frontline workers and visionaries to shape the future.
“We think there's a better way right that a better way is to actually let your data be where it is let your applications be where they are of course you'll still do digital transformation you will buy new ERP systems that's all good but in addition to doing that the better way is to kind of fly above and not have to dig...”
“Auto makes BI human for the first time ever we're able to use generative AI to give Auto linguistic skills so it can understand you and not just understand you in English and in French and in Spanish understand you in pretty much any language and it knows who you are because the MicroStrategy side of things knows who y...”
“Our goal is to inject intelligence into the applications that your users already use and let's face it most of our users use Microsoft Office right and so over the past year or so we've been enhancing our Excel connectivity we've introduced two new plugins a new PowerPoint plugin and a new Teams plugin as well to basic...”
“With MicroStrategy in our custom bots you literally bring data into MicroStrategy you already know how to do that you click like four buttons and build a bot and then you can take that bot to a number of different places very very quickly basically upleveling all the applications that you already have out there.”
“We invented a product called HyperIntelligence a few years ago and it was meant to solve this problem right how do we actually inject intelligence into web applications if we don't control them and so we did is we invented this extension for Chrome and for Edge and HyperIntelligence watches the things that your users a...”
“These Bots are little they're like little employees right they do things for you you could have a sales bot a marketing bot a supply chain bot or whatever bot you can build these things now by bringing them into Teams you can add them as teammates right so if you have a sales Channel or a finance Channel you can add th...”
“We took our semantic graph and our computation that's the analytic part of Auto right it's a left brain of Auto and then we took and we partnered you know Mel helped us partner with Microsoft and we got OpenAI and the LLM now the LLM is the linguistic part of Auto it understands language it can reason it can behave lik...”
“We also added a vector database and some other things we called that the knowledge store and we gave Auto a memory and we're really proud of this actually because we think that between these three things and some of the things that we've done from an engineering perspective it really sets us aside in the industry.”
“We challenged our engineering team we said Hey listen we've got this really powerful semantic graph and it's growing and you're giving it memory and we're giving it linguistic skills and all this stuff that you're doing but building one of these things is still a little bit tricky can we apply the same principles that...”
“We've always been open to multicloud and in fact that was a journey we started with AWS back in 2014 then we added Azure in roughly 2019 and just in December of 2023 we also added Google and I believe that makes us maybe the only BI company to provide a managed Cloud solution on all three hyperscalers which gives you b...”
Chief Product Officer Saurabh Abhyankar showcases the latest release of MicroStrategy ONE and its integration of generative AI.
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