By Willo van der Merwe - Technical Competency Lead. Recently we ran an internal session where we explored a fairly simple-sounding problem: How do you let someone query a relational database using nothing but natural language? In other words, instead of writing SQL, a user could ask something like: “Tell me how many hours were...
By Willo van der Merwe. When it comes to Agentic AI, the last two years have been predominantly about exploration. We’ve tested models, prototyped ideas, broken things, and learned where generative AI genuinely helps, where it doesn’t, and where it simply adds noise. This year feels different. We’re moving out of the demo...
Artificial intelligence (AI) has become the loudest conversation in boardrooms, tech teams, and strategy sessions across the world. Every business feels the pressure to “do something with AI.” Whether it’s generative tools, automation, or agentic AI, the message often sounds the same: adopt AI immediately, or get left behind. But here’s...
By Anton Schaffer - Principal Data Engineer. Artificial Intelligence (AI) is changing the way we all work, and for Data Engineers the shift is especially noticeable. The role of a Data Engineer has always been about building and maintaining the pipelines that move data reliably from source to destination. With AI becoming...
By Anton Schaffer - Principal Data Engineer. AI-assisted development has become a game changer across many fields, but in data engineering it’s particularly disruptive. After all, data engineers spend half their lives untangling JSON, arguing with SQL about GROUP BYs, and trying to remember if it’s left join or left outer join...
Agentic AI - the software systems that pursue objectives independently through reasoned decision-making, judgment, and the use of tools and resources - is at the forefront of artificial intelligence’s (AI) evolution. In financial services, it offers the ideal way to handle complex and variable data. Which is why, at Saratoga, we are happy to share how...
As a CIO in 2025, you're steering the business through one of the most transformative shifts in decades. AI has moved from experimental to operational in the blink of an eye. The pressure to show how AI drives tangible value has never been higher. At Saratoga, we’ve been at the coalface of this transformation. We’ve...
If 2024 was the year AI models went from powerful to pervasive, 2025 has emerged as the year they’ve become… agentic. From one-off prompt engineering to multi-step, autonomous goal-chasing AI systems, we’re now entering a fascinating and fast-moving phase: the era of AI Agents. At Saratoga, we’ve always had our eyes on the road ahead,...
Artificial intelligence (AI) agents are set to bring significant disruption to financial services in 2025. According to Gartner’s top tech trends, agentic AI is the one to watch. And for good reason—these autonomous, decision-making AI systems are transforming financial operations in ways that were not previously possible. Let's explore AI agents for financial services...
Artificial intelligence (AI) agents are the leading trend for 2025 according to Gartner’s 2025 top tech trends. AI agents are bringing the power of generative AI to the coalface and are allowing businesses to realise a return on the significant investment that has been poured into advancing AI technology in the past few years....
