Vernon Keenan
Senior Industry Analyst · SalesforceDevops.net
Vernon Keenan is a Senior Industry Analyst at SalesforceDevops.net and a veteran entrepreneur and technologist who has built companies at the intersection of enterprise software and emerging technology. He tracks the Salesforce ecosystem closely and helps enterprises cut through AI vendor hype to make sound build vs. buy decisions grounded in real TCO and risk analysis.
Build vs. buy AI decisions: independent analysis of Salesforce AI options, when to build on the platform vs. adopt third-party models.
Build or Buy AI: Make the Right Call for Your Enterprise
Should your enterprise build or buy AI capabilities? This session cuts through the hype to explore the strategic, financial, and technical factors driving the decision. Expert panelists share real frameworks used by Fortune 500 companies facing this critical choice.
Vernon Keenan & Preetam Joshi · 10 min watch
Govern AI Risk Without Killing Innovation: An Enterprise Security Framework
The Samsung engineer incident—code leaked into ChatGPT training data—sparked CISOs to block OpenAI. But fear is outpacing knowledge. Enterprise versions of generative AI with non-training data policies exist. The real challenge: there's no turnkey solution yet. Five security principles (data protection, explainability, access controls, compliance mapping, vendor evaluation) form the foundation ...
Doug Merrett & Vernon Keenan · 12 min watch
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