NASDAQ-listed Cisco on Monday announced the deployment of Motific, Cisco’s first software-as-a-service, or SaaS, product that allows for trustworthy and compliant generative artificial intelligence, or GenAI, in organizations.
Developed by Outshift, Cisco’s incubation business, Motific provides a central view across the entire GenAI journey, empowering central information technology and security teams to rapidly deliver trustworthy GenAI capabilities across their organizations with control over sensitive data, security, responsible AI, and cost.
Cisco said that since the expansion and breadth of access to GenAI, 97 percent of companies have reported that the urgency to deploy AI-powered technology has increased.
Businesses need to be AI-ready in a way that is flexible, scalable, and provides industry-wide interoperability.
However, many organizations face challenges in ensuring the AI being utilized includes trustworthy, use-case-specific data that complies with organizational policies.
The company noted that one of the biggest hurdles facing organizations is the ability to tailor GenAI applications and solutions on knowledge bases and data sources that are custom to their specific use cases. Current and clean data are critical to operating effectively and can be achieved via techniques such as Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG).
Cisco said it is time-consuming for companies to provision and manage GenAI assistants and application program interfaces, or APIs, integrate models across providers, and hire the talent to manage the process. Instead, they look for a product that can accelerate their AI deployments with minimal investment.
Motific, a model and vendor-agnostic product, supports the entire GenAI journey from assessment, through experimentation, to production. Motific allows customers to deploy GenAI faster and more effectively; reduce risk and ensure continual compliance because of its built-in policy controls; and track return on investments and business insights while controlling costs.
“Cisco is rapidly accelerating its product offerings for customers in the Generative AI space to meet the growing artificial intelligence and security compliance demands of enterprises,” said Vijoy Pandey, Senior Vice President, Outshift by Cisco. “Motific accelerates the time to value an enterprise organization spends on GenAI usage and deployment by mitigating the risk up-front and enabling teams to innovate faster.”
