What it is
Glean Assistant connects to enterprise applications and knowledge so users can search, ask questions, create content, and initiate supported work from one interface. Its value depends on the quality and permissions of the connected sources.
Evaluate retrieval and authorization together. Build a permission-aware test set, check every cited answer against the source, include stale and conflicting documents, and verify that generated actions cannot exceed the user's intended authority.
Worth evaluating for
- Organizations with knowledge distributed across approved enterprise systems
- Permission-aware internal search and question-answering pilots
- Workflows that connect retrieval to reviewed cross-system actions
What to measure
- Retrieval relevance, citations, freshness, and conflicting-source handling
- Source-level permissions, identity sync, indexing, and deletion behavior
- Action scope, confirmation, audit trail, error recovery, and administrator controls
Decision cautions
- An assistant cannot correct weak ownership, stale documents, or inconsistent permissions by itself.
- Connected applications expand the security and data-governance boundary.
- Generated answers and actions still need task-appropriate human review.
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