Technology

A focused review of enterprise AI technologies and architectures, from language models, RAG and AI agents to MCP, A2A, on-premise deployment, security and controlled connections to organizational data and systems.

Technology topics

Reranking RAG search results

Understand two-stage retrieval, Cross-Encoder reranking and the practical trade-off between evidence quality, candidate coverage, latency and cost.

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Incremental indexing and document deletion

Track document changes, stable identifiers, obsolete chunks and access updates so your RAG index stays aligned with its source throughout the content lifecycle.

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Enterprise language-model routing

Route requests by data policy, task quality, latency and cost, with measurable acceptance criteria and fallback paths that preserve the same access boundaries.

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What is a computer-use agent?

How agents interact with software and which enterprise controls they need.

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What is an AI sandbox?

An isolated environment for AI agents, generated code and controlled tool execution.

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Agent observability: monitoring AI agents

Tracing tool calls, tokens, latency and errors across production agent tasks.

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What is A2UI? Interfaces for AI agents

Structured, interactive and controlled interfaces generated by AI agents.

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What is Agentic RAG? Multi-step search

Multi-step Retrieval, Agent decisions and enterprise knowledge use cases.

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What is MCP? AI and enterprise tools

An open standard for controlled AI-agent access to organizational tools, data and services.

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What is A2A? Communication between AI agents

A protocol for agent collaboration, task delegation and result exchange.

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What is On-Premise AI?

Deploying models internally for greater control over processing, networks and data flows.

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Connect AI to your organization’s knowledge and workflows

With Aivan, approved documents, data and systems can power intelligent assistants and workflows.