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The Strategic Divide: Salesforce vs. SAP on AI Agent Access
For decades, the user interface was the product. When an association purchased an enterprise software system, the implicit agreement was that staff...
Data Management
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Enterprise Platforms Prepare for AI Agents & Diffusion LLMs Prove Their Production Value | [Sidecar Sync Episode 134]
Mallory Mejias: May 21, 2026 5:06:53 PM
Summary: In this episode of Sidecar Sync, Amith Nagarajan and Mallory Mejias dig into two major shifts happening beneath the surface of AI: how...
5 min read
Stop Fearing Your 'Dark Databases': A New Way to Map Your Data
Imagine you want to answer a seemingly simple question about your association's membership: Are there geographic trends in your year-over-year...
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32 min read
Dark Databases & the State of AI Video | [Sidecar Sync Episode 133]
Mallory Mejias: May 12, 2026 10:38:21 AM
Summary: In this episode of the Sidecar Sync, Amith Nagarajan and Mallory Mejias dig into the hidden world of “dark databases”—messy, undocumented...
4 min read
The Two Problems Holding Your Association Back From AI Agents (And Neither One Is the Technology)
Mallory Mejias: Mar 13, 2026 11:38:01 AM
Eighty percent of organizations surveyed in Anthropic's 2026 State of AI Agents Report say agents have already delivered measurable financial impact....
5 min read
Data Warehouses, Data Lakes, AI Data Platforms — What's the Difference and Why Should You Care?
Mallory Mejias: Mar 4, 2026 6:30:00 AM
When association leaders hear the term "AI data platform," there's usually a familiar response: "Oh, so it's like a data warehouse?" Not quite.
6 min read
The Infrastructure Gap Holding Your AI Strategy Back
Mallory Mejias: Feb 12, 2026 6:30:00 AM
Associations are adopting AI at a pace that would have been hard to imagine even two years ago. Content generation, member service tools, internal...
3 min read
From Pain to Gain: Practical Applications of AI-Powered Data Analysis for Associations
As recently discussed on the Sidecar Sync podcast, for many associations, data is abundant but achieving real insights from it is not without...
3 min read
Unlocking the Power of Unstructured Data: How AI is Revolutionizing Association Management
One of the key value propositions of an association is its knowledge repository, which has usually been built up collaboratively over many years. As...