Weaviate Podcast Weaviate and SAS with Saurabh Mishra and Bob van Luijt - Weaviate Podcast #129!
Oct 13, 2025
In this conversation, Saurabh Mishra, a Senior product/engineering leader at SAS, discusses the exciting partnership between SAS and Weaviate on the SAS Retrieval Agent Manager. He explores how retrieval-augmented generation is transforming enterprise AI, particularly for managing unstructured data. Saurabh highlights real-world use cases, including predictive maintenance in manufacturing, and addresses persistent challenges in data security and AI trustworthiness. He also shares insights on the evolving developer experience and the promising future of SAS RAM.
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RAG Is The Enterprise Bridge
- RAG emerged as the practical bridge to apply general LLMs to enterprise unstructured data.
- Preparing documents and embeddings is critical and often underestimated.
Manufacturer Inspired Convergence
- A large US manufacturer used ML on sensor data but relied on documents to turn alerts into actions.
- SAS combined telemetry ML alerts with RAG-driven prompts to produce actionable maintenance plans.
Simplify Data Prep And Deploy Where Data Lives
- Simplify data preparation with no-code pipelines and flexible deployment (cloud or on-prem).
- Use vector databases as a core part of the architecture to unlock enterprise RAG workflows.