July 2026
Intermediate
35 pages
52m
English
Overview
Are you letting one of your most critical assets go unmanaged? While many organizations have sophisticated platforms for managing customer data, their source code remains ungoverned, causing a host of issues—technical debt, security exposure, stalled modernization, and unreliable AI automation. Code as Data introduces the framework you need to overcome these challenges: treating source code as structured, queryable knowledge.
This essential report shows how semantic representation transforms repositories into unified datasets, enabling system-wide reasoning that's been impossible until now. You'll discover how to leverage AI agents with authoritative context, automate governance at scale, and turn code intelligence into deterministic action.
- Query code composition across your entire portfolio like a database
- Detect vulnerabilities through semantic flow analysis, not just signatures
- Govern AI-generated code with automated, policy-driven guardrails
- Transform modernization from guesswork to data-driven execution
- Bridge understanding and action with lossless code representation
- Build continuous security posture beyond traditional scanning
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