VAST InsightEngine: One Search. All the Answers

The answer usually exists somewhere in your organization — nobody can find it. Enterprise knowledge is scattered across Confluence, SharePoint, Drive, object stores, ticketing and chat, so engineers re-derive answers that already exist and onboarding drags on for months. The usual fixes don't fit regulated environments: SaaS search copies your document estate into someone else's cloud index, and a DIY RAG stack is a permanent platform commitment. Join Rakshith Venkatesh, Director of Product Management, for a look at VAST InsightEngine: a permission-aware retrieval layer that runs where your data already lives, inherits your existing access controls, and returns cited answers with no second copy and no second permission model.

Session Takeaways:

• Three constraints rule out most of the market: the data can't move, permissions must be inherited exactly, and an index rebuilt nightly is wrong all day

• Permission-aware retrieval can't be bolted on. InsightEngine inherits your ACLs natively and checks every request, per user, in real time

• Retrieval belongs in the data platform. Vectors persist alongside the source files: no second copy, no governance gap, one governed layer for every agent you build