# Why Vectara

## The Enterprise AI Agent Platform

Vectara is an agent platform built to meet enterprise requirements for security, accuracy, scalability, and observability. It is available as a service on-premises, within your VPC, or via SaaS.

## Talk of the town

> Vectara just made generative AI development a piece of cake.

[VentureBeat, Aug. 2024](https://venturebeat.com/data-infrastructure/vectara-portal-helps-non-developers-build-ai-apps-to-chat-with-data-heres-how-to-use-it/)

## Why enterprises choose Vectara

Unlike other agent platforms on the market, Vectara is focused on high-accuracy and tightly governed agentic workloads. Vectara is also built to handle siloed and messy data sets, the kind that are inherent in many modern organizations. Vectara agents are unique in that they are able to operate in production without a major investment in additional engineering and without the high cost of DIY projects.

### Operate Your Way

**On-premises, SaaS, or customer-managed VPC**. Choose the right balance of data control, security, and configurability. **Model-agnostic with BYOM** and delivered as a **fully hosted service** regardless of environment.

### Multiple Deployment Models

On-premises, SaaS, or managed VPC.

### Air-gapped Hosted Service

Deploy on-premise with centralized command and control.

### Bring Your Own Model

Support for common LLM models.

## Context Accuracy

Deliver **context-relevant retrieval** using advanced context-engineering techniques to ensure responses are **grounded in the most relevant information**.

### Multi-modal Ingest

Across text, tables, charts and images.

### MCP Support

Provide dynamic context to your agents.

### Session Artifacts

Retrieve a specific artifact including metadata and encoded file content.

> Solutions powered by Vectara's Revenue Digital Assistant™ platform demonstrated significant improvements, with an 18-point increase in precision, a 30-point boost in recall, and a 25-point rise in the F1 score.

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### Policy-Led Enforcement

Provides **always-on governance** that actively **detects and corrects hallucinations**, ensuring agents operate reliably and as intended.

### Always-on AI Governance

Full observability for AI agent management.

### Backed by citations

Full inline citations for discovery and audit.

### Agent Tool Validation

Validate the entire agent chain of command.

> Integrating Vectara's technology has allowed us to vastly improve how we connect our users with the information they need. This is more than an upgrade; it's a transformation in how we interact with our users, empowering them to make faster, better-informed decisions.

Michael Khmelnitsky  
– Principal Technical Writer at Qumulo

### Scale Without Friction

Built to take you from **pilot to production** at **enterprise scale**, supporting growth across **multiple use cases**. Scale easily **without re-engineering** and meet production requirements.

### Avoid Agent Sprawl

Centralized control and management to streamline agent scaling.

### Enterprise Support

Guidance, development, and fixes for your production AI agents.

### Administrator observability

Full system control for modern agent management.

> We are committed to leveraging cutting-edge AI technologies to transform the real estate experience. Vectara's Enterprise AI Agent platform not only gives us the intelligence and efficiency to streamline title creation, but critically, it protects us from the risk of Agent sprawl by delivering a unified, governed, and secure AI foundation.

Jeff Hummel  
– SVP of Engineering at Anywhere Real Estate

## Start building groundbreaking AI agents with Vectara

Vectara is the agent platform built to meet enterprise requirements for security, accuracy, scalability, and observability.