If you’ve ever wished enterprise search could feel as intuitive as asking an expert (or even ChatGPT), Glean is leading the way. The platform’s focus is simple: empower every employee in an organization to leverage generative AI without sacrificing one byte of security or confidentiality.
Security at the Core
Glean’s magic starts with strict permission controls. Employees see only the content they’d normally be allowed to access; Glean mirrors existing permissions, whether your source is SharePoint, Jira, or something else entirely. This means generative AI’s power isn’t a potential risk it’s a well-governed advantage. The platform’s enterprise search, boosted by AI, lets users pinpoint knowledge, documents, and context in seconds, rather than hours spent paging through different systems or silos.
This level of governance matters because one of the biggest concerns businesses face with generative AI is trust. It’s not enough for a system to deliver fast results. It has to deliver the right results, to the right people, at the right time. By aligning to existing access frameworks, Glean ensures that leaders don’t have to choose between innovation and control.
Seamless Integrations Across the Enterprise
Out-of-the-box, Glean connects with more than 100 platforms. Whether you’re gathering data across internal wikis, external CRM tools, or cloud-based project management suites, Glean’s connectors ensure that the search experience is seamless, and that integration work is invisible to users. And for those rare tools not on the list, custom connector builds are straightforward, further minimizing data friction and ensuring that no valuable information is left behind.
This breadth of integrations eliminates one of the most frustrating aspects of modern work: hopping between apps and systems to track down an answer. Instead, employees can trust a single search bar to surface relevant insights from across the entire enterprise ecosystem. When information flows this smoothly, collaboration accelerates and teams spend less time hunting for context and more time applying it.
Real Impact on Daily Work
How does this impact the everyday reality of work? Employees save tangible time, reduce frustration, and see the collaborative promise of AI play out in action. Security isn’t a compromise it’s embedded in every search, suggestion, and generative response.
Consider the ripple effects. Faster access to knowledge means new employees ramp up more quickly. Teams tackling complex projects don’t stall out waiting on missing documents or institutional knowledge. Leaders make better-informed decisions because the insights they need are instantly at hand. By embedding generative AI in a way that feels natural and safe, Glean turns what might otherwise be a source of risk into a source of advantage.
The next article will confront one of modern business’s trickiest hurdles: the silos that can keep generative AI’s full power locked away. We’ll explore how Glean helps break them down and why that matters.
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