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Executive perspectivesEvery deploy needs a way back: rollback for AI-built appsAI-built apps ship more often, so more releases go wrong. Why a fast way back matters now, and how to roll back a deployment on Tray Helix.
Executive perspectivesThree questions to settle before your Workato renewal reaches numbersYour integration platform now answers for three kinds of work. The contract was scoped against one of them. Three questions to put to your account team before anyone quotes a figure.
Executive perspectives5 surprises from Gartner App Summit EMEATwo days on the Tray.ai booth at Gartner Application Innovation Summit EMEA surfaced what enterprises really want from vibe-coded app governance.
Executive perspectives7 questions every vibe-coded app must answerWho is actually allowed to say yes to a vibe-coded app? Most teams can name who built it faster than they can name who approved it. Settle that first.
Executive perspectivesWhen to start your Workato renewal review, and what to do at each stageProcurement forwards the renewal ninety days out. By then the scope of the next term is set, and the work that would change it takes longer than that.
Executive perspectivesThree things stop your app from shippingAI-built apps stall on credentials, hosting, and access control. Here is what it takes to get past them.
Executive perspectivesThe biggest MCP upgrade yet makes MCP harder to depend onThe new spec is a real step up for MCP. It also deepens the split across the thousands of servers already in use, so what you can rely on barely improves.
Executive perspectivesFable 5 is back, shining a light on a much bigger problemWhen Fable 5 vanished overnight, everything built on it stopped. Orchestration keeps models swappable, so availability is not one vendor's call.
Executive perspectivesiPaaS migration has always been a time and cost problem. It just got 95% faster.Rebuilding workflows is what kept teams on the wrong integration platform. One migration sample ran 95% faster with Tray Headless. Here is how.
Executive perspectivesGartner® Just Defined a New AI Category. Here's Where Tray.ai Stands.Gartner named Tray.ai a Pioneer in its first Emerging Market Quadrant for No-Code Agent Builders. What the new category says about enterprise AI.
Executive perspectivesBack from Gartner App Summit. Here's your MCP checklist.A community npm package quietly shipped an MCP server that exfiltrated email data. That pattern is the MCP work now waiting on every IT leader's desk.
Executive perspectives6 takeaways from SaaSpocalypse Now: what NYC said that SF didn'tBraze's AI vendor moved it from seat pricing to tokens mid-rollout. What the NYC practitioner panel said about consolidation that San Francisco did not.
Executive perspectives5 hard truths from the first-ever Agentic AI Hype CycleGartner found 17% of enterprises have deployed AI agents and 42% more plan to within a year. What its first Agentic AI Hype Cycle says about that gap.
Executive perspectivesSeven takeaways from SaaSpocalypse NowSpeed and velocity are not the same thing. What heads of business technology at Notion, Zuora and Yext said about making AI work on systems that are messy.
Executive perspectivesThe last Magic Quadrant: iPaaS has entered its AI reckoningTray.ai is a Visionary in the 2026 Gartner Magic Quadrant for iPaaS. The more interesting story is what the quadrant says about the integration era.
Executive perspectivesWhat AI will really change at work in 2026AI will change work in 2026, but not the way most teams expect. Learn how agents, orchestration, and governance reshape specific roles across the enterprise.
Executive perspectivesHow to think about measuring agent performanceYour agent is live. Is it doing anything that matters? Counting tokens and conversations tells you something happened, not whether it got you anywhere.
Executive perspectivesAI architecture is why most AI agent projects fail95% of enterprise AI pilots fail because teams skip foundational AI architecture decisions. Learn how the right architecture helps AI agents scale.
Executive perspectivesHow to scale AI agents after the first oneBuilding the first agent is the easy part. What breaks between the first and the tenth is operational rather than technical, and nobody planned for it.
Executive perspectivesWhy AI agent orchestration is key to enterprise AIAI agents are everywhere, but without AI orchestration they create chaos. Learn why enterprises need unified platforms to govern and scale AI agents.
Executive perspectivesThe four blockers to AI agent adoption (and how to fix them)AI agent adoption is harder than building agents. Learn the four biggest challenges preventing enterprise AI agent adoption and how to fix them.
Executive perspectivesAI agent management: Why your first agent is easy and your fifth one breaks everythingAI agent management becomes critical as organizations scale beyond their first AI agent. Learn how enterprise teams avoid agent sprawl.
Executive perspectivesWhat it really takes to build for the AI-native eraAn HR tool flags a risk and the compliance system ignores it. Fragmented AI is a governance problem first, and IT ends up refereeing the contradictions.
Executive perspectivesAI agent sprawl: How to stay in control as teams build more AI agentsSales wants a forecasting agent. Marketing wants a campaign agent. Finance wants approvals. Without orchestration every one of them becomes a new silo.
Executive perspectivesFour paths to AI agents (and the one that scales)Learn how to build AI agents that scale across the enterprise. Compare prebuilt agents, DIY builds, domain tools, and AI orchestration platforms.
Executive perspectivesHow to build AI agents that actually work (not just chat)An agent that only answers questions is a search box. Getting one to reset MFA or provision access takes knowledge grounding, guardrails and real tools.
Executive perspectivesAI orchestration for CIOs who don’t want to be AI refereesTray CEO Rich Waldron on how CIOs end up refereeing between siloed AI systems, and what orchestration puts back under their control.
Executive perspectivesTop 5 must-haves to successfully build and deploy AI agentsIn a survey of more than a thousand enterprise leaders, 79% expected data problems to slow their agent rollout. What a platform needs to reach production.
Executive perspectivesSetting the right pace for AI: Insight from Gartner IT SymposiumTray.ai CEO Rich Waldron shares strategic insights from the Gartner IT Symposium on pacing AI adaption, balancing innovation and driving business results.
Executive perspectivesiPaaS in an AI-driven worldIntegration platforms built for a static pre-cloud world are the wrong foundation for AI work. What a CIO should demand from a modern iPaaS instead.
Executive perspectivesThe next tech stack challenge: Combatting AI misalignmentAI misalignment is emerging as a major challenge for enterprises adopting AI across SaaS tools. Learn how to align AI systems, governance, and workflows.
Executive perspectivesTray named a Visionary in the 2024 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for iPaaSIn the 2024 Gartner Magic Quadrant for iPaaS, Gartner highlighted Tray’s Market Responsiveness and Innovation.
Executive perspectivesAt the forefront of a tectonic shift in automationGartner® Names Tray.ai as a Sole Challenger in the 2023 iPaaS Magic Quadrant™. Learn why we're at the forefront of a tectonic shift in automation.
Executive perspectivesAutomation maturity: Your company’s secret weaponLearn how organizations build a sustained competitive advantage with automation maturity.
Executive perspectivesFrom IT decentralization to end-user innovationBusinesses that empower teams to learn new technical skills drive efficiencies and flip from being cost driven to being value driven.
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