We are introducing a new approach for building, deploying, and managing AI applications. This approach features a visual, drag-and-drop model for building AI apps and supports deep integration with enterprise data and application infrastructure.

Our customers believe AI adoption is critical to staying competitive in the rapidly changing business environment. Many have teams working on experimental AI projects. However, as these projects move past the prototype stage, it becomes apparent that building scalable and maintainable AI applications is hard and requires mastery of a multitude of tools, patterns, and technologies. There is also a skill gap where people who understand the enterprise data, applications, business, and culture often do not have expertise in AI tools, and the AI developers lack the requisite business understanding.

Given the strategic importance of AI for businesses, the development of AI applications cannot be confined to a small group of developers. There is a need for a toolset that makes AI development approachable to almost anyone in the company. We have seen that when AI tools are designed for business experts, the entire culture of the team changes, and AI becomes a core part of the team’s thinking process. This facilitates bottom-up bubbling of ideas from deep within the organization. That is the key to successful AI adoption in the enterprise.

Astera AI Agent Builder brings a new approach to building AI applications and agents. By integrating your enterprise data, applications, cloud resources, and services, Astera enables you to build, test, and deploy powerful AI applications. These can be agents, knowledge systems (RAG), analytics dashboards, and more. These tools are designed to empower business, data, and systems experts to build and test AI-driven applications. A growing library of sample apps and agents provides a running start to newcomers to the tool and AI in general.

Over the next few weeks, we’ll be rolling out content that explores the product’s core features and what they mean for you. The key mission is to enable enterprises to build, deploy, and manage powerful AI applications.

Stay tuned for a closer look at how you can build, deploy, and scale with AI.