Future-Proofing Your AEC Firm: Why AI Readiness Starts with Data, Not Budget
AI is here, and it’s reshaping how AEC firms design, build, and operate. But before you can unlock its transformative power, your data needs to be ready.
For business owners driving innovation and IT leaders tasked with security, the challenge is preparing massive amounts of unstructured project data without costly overhauls.
In this blog, we’ll highlight how solutions from ATG and Panzura offer secure, cost-effective, and future-proof methods to make your firm’s data AI-ready.
AI-Ready Data Architecture
Panzura transforms your unstructured data into assets AI tools can use, eliminating the headache of prepping your project files.
- Zero Data Migration: Keep files exactly where they are. Panzura converts data to the AI-preferred Native S3 Object Storage format, eliminating the time and cost of moving or transforming data.
- Instant Historical Insights: Years of project files become immediately usable for AI training, analytics, and generating insights.
The Impact
Your firm can start leveraging AI insights immediately, accelerating projects and boosting profitability without a massive re-architecture of your environment.
Secure AI Access
In AEC, security and compliance are non-negotiable, especially when feeding proprietary project data to AI models.
Panzura Symphony acts as a Zero Trust Data Broker, ensuring that innovation never compromises compliance.
- Granular Access Control: Enforce strict policies that align with regulations like GDPR, HIPAA, and ITAR.
- Intelligent Filtering: Only the specific, relevant data is exposed to AI models, significantly reducing risk exposure.
- Audit-Ready Peace of Mind: Maintain full visibility and a clean audit trail, giving IT leaders complete control over how data is accessed and used.
Optimized for Maximum Performance & Cost Savings
Large Language Models (LLMs) and specialized AI tools thrive on clean, well-structured data. Panzura ensures your data is primed for peak performance, optimizing both speed and cost.
- Prepares Complex Files: Panzura handles the heavy lifting, efficiently converting and segmenting complex files (PDFs, CAD, BIM) for seamless AI ingestion.
- Reduces Cloud Compute Costs: Optimized data means faster processing times, which directly translates to significantly lower cloud bills.
- Improves AI Accuracy: Clean, structured inputs lead to higher-quality, more reliable outputs, whether you’re training a proprietary model or using a third-party tool.
Lead the Industry with AI Readiness
Firms that are prepared for AI will be the ones that dominate the next decade. Don’t let your data architecture be the bottleneck.
- Zero AI Prep Costs: No need for expensive data engineering projects.
- Faster Time-to-Insight: Get answers in days, not months.
- Innovation Without Compromise: Stay secure and compliant while pushing the envelope.
