Q: Can you elaborate on the strong consumption trends among larger enterprise customers and whether there was any commonality driving this trend? A: Janesh Moorjani, CFO and COO, explained that overall consumption was strong across Q2, with notable acceleration among larger customers using the Elasticsearch AI platform for new and expanded workloads. While there was no specific commonality, the strength was broad-based across geographies and solutions. The guidance for Q3 was built prudently, considering potential fluctuations in consumption patterns.
Q: What drove the improved sales execution in Q2, and is there potential for continued improvement? A: Ashutosh Kulkarni, CEO, attributed the improved sales execution to the changes made at the start of the fiscal year, focusing on enterprise and high-potential mid-market segments. The pace of pipeline creation and progression returned to normal levels, and the benefits of these changes are starting to take hold, giving confidence for future quarters.
Q: How is Elastic differentiating itself with binary quantization in vector databases, and what is its impact on GenAI use cases? A: Ashutosh Kulkarni highlighted that Elastic's better binary quantization offers significant efficiency improvements with minimal impact on accuracy, making it a game changer for vector search. This innovation is expected to drive adoption across various GenAI use cases, as it addresses the trade-off between accuracy and performance.
Q: Can you provide insights into the GenAI use cases and how Elastic is standardizing its go-to-market strategy for these opportunities? A: Ashutosh Kulkarni explained that Elastic aims to be the runtime platform for retrieval augmented generation, supporting applications that automate business processes using unstructured data. The sales force focuses on semantic search and vector databases, leading to opportunities in semantic search, hybrid search, and retrieval augmented generation.
Q: How is Elastic addressing the competitive landscape in SIEM and GenAI, and what are the key displacement opportunities? A: Ashutosh Kulkarni noted that Elastic positions itself as a modern, AI-driven security analytics solution, differentiating through flexibility and AI capabilities. In GenAI, Elastic partners with various large language model providers and focuses on being the vector database of choice for unstructured data, competing with both pure-play vector databases and other data platforms.
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