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Hi! My name is Brian Bliss, I'm a Client Partner with Valorem Reply and I cover the manufacturing sector here in the US. I just want to talk to you about a couple things that I consistently see within the manufacturing sector. One will be data security and the other will be data governance and both of these are significantly impacted by AI. It's going to be something in the future but the ability to take advantage of that is very important with both of these topics. So data security is paramount as a manufacturer, it impacts your essential services, it impacts your supply chain. It has impact sometimes on businesses employees, services and even product disruption across the globe, not just here in the US. So we want to make sure that we have data security in place and solutions to give you as a manufacturer peace of mind as you approach using Ai and going forward with your business. 

The second point was the data governance. I think we're seeing more and more companies realize they have such a disparity in their data sources and so forth and to get to a single source of truth and try and take advantage of AI like we were talking about and a data governance strategy is critical to being able to move forward with that. It's important to have a cohesive plan on how to access secure report on and then accurately distribute that data that you want to get to the right teams, the right folks, the right people in your business and the right teams and people that are outside of your business and so data governance and having a strategy around that is very important. I want to give one just real quick example specific to what we see in manufacturing space. SAP is obviously a huge massive player as an ERP provider and we have a solution. We see this consistently within companies that have SAP in their environment where the data they feel is kind of locked in the SAP environment. So we have a solution called ERP Nitro that runs a tool to access and transform that data, unlock that out of SAP and put that into an Azure or a fabric environment. It's a really cool tool. It gives you additional resources and just abilities to do what you want to do with the data that you've got that's so valuable.

And then I would just kind of close with this final note. We have workshops that we can run and sometimes these are funded by Microsoft. So if you want to reach out, I can check for you to see if these workshops are available for you as an organization. We have workshops that cover threat protection, data security and other areas as well and so I'd be happy to run that check for you and see if that's something that we could help your manufacturing company with. Thanks for your time, look forward to talking again!