
Episode 142
Ep142: Transforming ISV Businesses Through Modern Data Platforms with Coveo, DTEX Systems and Honeycomb
AWS for Software Companies Podcast · Nate Goyer
September 8, 202544m 12s
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Show Notes
Three leading ISV executives from Coveo, DTEX Systems and Honeycomb, reveal how companies with proprietary datasets are gaining unbeatable competitive advantages in the AI era and share real-world strategies how you have similar outcomes.
Topics Include:
- Panel introduces three ISV leaders discussing data platform transformation for AI
- DTEX focuses on insider threats, Coveo on enterprise search, Honeycomb on observability
- Companies with proprietary datasets gain strongest competitive advantage in AI transformation
- Data gravity concept: LLMs learning from unique datasets create defensible business positions
- Coveo maintains unified enterprise index with real-time content and access rights sync
- Honeycomb enables subsecond queries for analyzing logs, traces, and metrics at scale
- Multi-tenant architectures balance shared infrastructure benefits with single-tenant data separation
- Coveo deployed 140,000 times last year using mostly multi-tenant, some single-tenant components
- DTEX scaled from thousands to hundreds of thousands endpoints after architectural transformation
- Capital One partnership taught DTEX how to break monolithic architecture into services
- Apache Iceberg and open table formats enable interoperability without data duplication
- Honeycomb built custom format following similar patterns with hot/cold storage tiers
- Business data catalogs become critical for AI agents understanding dataset context
- MCP servers allow AI systems to leverage structured cybersecurity datasets effectively
- DTEX used Cursor with their data to identify North Korean threat actors
- Real-time AI data needs balanced with costs using right models for jobs
- Caching strategies and precise context reduce expensive LLM inference calls unnecessarily
- Search remains essential for enterprise AI to prevent hallucination and access information
- ROI measurement focuses on cost reduction, analyst efficiency, and measurable business outcomes
- Key takeaway: invest in data structure early, context is king, AI is just software
Participants:
- Sebastien Paquet - Vice President of AI Strategy, Coveo
- Rajan Koo - CTO, DTEX Systems
- Patrick King - Head of Data, Honeycomb.io
- KP Bhat - Sr Solutions Architecture Leader- Analytics & AI, Amazon Web Services
Further Links:
- Coveo: Website – LinkedIn – AWS Marketplace
- DTEX Systems: Website – LinkedIn – AWS Marketplace
- Honeycomb.io: Website – LinkedIn – AWS Marketplace
See how Amazon Web Services gives you the freedom to migrate, innovate, and scale your software company at https://aws.amazon.com/isv/
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