An enterprise AI foundation depends on more than models and agents. It also requires governed operational data and infrastructure that can carry AI into production, a foundation-first approach emerging among Brazilian companies.

Technology company TOTVS S.A. is building that foundation from its position inside thousands of Brazilian businesses. About 25% of the country’s gross domestic product passes through its systems, while more than 70,000 clients use its large-enterprise software, according to Mara Maehara (pictured, left), chief information officer of TOTVS.

“Recently we launched our AI foundation with the name LYNN,” she said. “We are prepared to use this foundation to enable our clients to prepare agents or use our agents and AI using their data connected to their system to bring advantage to [their] business.”

Maehara and Diego Puerta (right), Brasil general manager at Dell Technologies Inc., spoke with theCUBE Research’s John Furrier during theCUBE + NYSE Wired: AI Factories – Data Centers of the Future interview series on theCUBE, SiliconANGLE Media’s livestreaming studio. They discussed TOTVS’ AI strategy, its infrastructure expansion and Dell’s role in supporting both.

Enterprise AI foundation extends toward infrastructure services

TOTVS describes LYNN as a technology layer that brings together assets and capabilities for the development of Artificial Intelligence agents focused on solving real business demands, rather than a generic AI. That strategy reflects a broader effort to turn operational data into differentiated business capabilities. General AI is increasingly commoditized, but value comes from applying it to a specific use case and proprietary data that can improve operations or generate revenue, according to Maehara. TOTVS now plans to carry that approach beyond its traditional software portfolio. The new offering would support more of a customer’s environment within the same infrastructure.

“We have another offering going to the market right now,” she said. “It’s infrastructure as a service. It’s a new offering that we can deliver to our clients — not just in the products that TOTVS used to provide, but also in all of our clients’ environments inside the same infrastructure — to provide performance, security and scalability.”

Partnership under evaluation to bring (more) AI to market

Dell and TOTVS are testing new technologies, evaluating the most suitable products and exploring how they could bring a solution to market together, according to Maehara. The approach reflects Dell’s work with other Brazilian customers, starting with business priorities before determining the infrastructure needed to scale artificial intelligence.

For TOTVS, the work moves the company into infrastructure decisions beyond its traditional software domain. Dell’s broader AI solutions span compute, storage and networking, providing technical breadth as the service takes shape, according to Puerta.

“At the beginning, it was not an easy conversation,” he said. “It was a very challenging one — less supply, more costs and everything else. But we work together in order to make sure that [they’re] going to have the supply, and most important, our teamwork, then to go into the very last details to understand if we have the right products, the right offering.”

Here’s the complete video interview, part of SiliconANGLE’s and theCUBE’s coverage of theCUBE + NYSE Wired: AI Factories – Data Centers of the Future interview series:

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