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NIKKEI KAI launched in under one year on 200M+ document corpus
Constrained on-premises infrastructure to AI-ready cloud platform
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The story earns the New Capability tag because NIKKEI KAI, a generative AI answer service built on RAG and vector search, did not exist before and could not have been built on the old on-premises stack. The 22.5% cost reduction and small-team scalability are real wins, but they are framed as the foundation that made the new service possible, not the headline achievement. There is a mild coin-flip between New Capability and Efficiency given how much space the cost and operational workload gains receive, and that tension is worth noting.
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The case study links each infrastructure decision directly to what it unlocked next, showing a clear cause-and-effect chain from cloud migration to managed service to AI product launch. This staged narrative makes the vendor feel like a long-term platform partner rather than a point solution.
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