Automating the Enterprise with Foundation Models

Summary: ECLAIR uses multimodal foundation models to automate enterprise workflows end-to-end, replacing brittle RPA by interpreting natural-language workflow descriptions for instant setup. Experiments report 93% workflow-understanding accuracy and 40% zero-shot completion; highlights human-AI validation, monitoring, and self-improvement as core data-management research problems. (summarized by gpt-5-mini on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 13690
Venue: VLDB
Year: 2024
Pagerank: 5.2422003e-05
Overall Rank: 9,654 | 33.77%
DOI: 10.14778/3681954.3681964

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Authors

1. Michael Wornow (Stanford University)
2. Avanika Narayan (Stanford University)
3. Krista Opsahl-Ong (Stanford University)
4. Quinn McIntyre (Stanford University)
5. Nigam Shah (Stanford University)
6. Christopher Ré (Stanford University)

BibTeX Citation

@article{wornow_vldb24,
        title = {{Automating the Enterprise with Foundation Models}},
        author = {Wornow, Michael and Narayan, Avanika and Opsahl-Ong, Krista and McIntyre, Quinn and Shah, Nigam and Ré, Christopher},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '24},
        volume = {17},
        number = {11},
        pages = {2805--2812},
        doi = {10.14778/3681954.3681964},
        url = {https://doi.org/10.14778/3681954.3681964},
        year = {2024}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 1 of 1 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
8,906	Unveiling Challenges for LLMs in Enterprise Data Engineering	2026	VLDB	5.3483178e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 13 of 13 cited papers.

Citations counted here include only citations to other VLDB/SIGMOD/CIDR/PODS papers in this database.

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
234	Self-Driving Database Management Systems	2017	CIDR	0.00023810722
420	Can Foundation Models Wrangle Your Data?	2023	VLDB	0.00018789852
461	Query-based Workload Forecasting for Self-Driving Database Management Systems	2018	SIGMOD	0.00018068441
2,242	CHORUS: Foundation Models for Unified Data Discovery and Exploration	2024	VLDB	8.8823802e-05
2,891	Business Process Cockpit	2002	VLDB	7.9864174e-05
2,947	Querying with Access Patterns and Integrity Constraints	2015	VLDB	7.9325276e-05
3,402	Collaborative Data Analytics with DataHub	2015	VLDB	7.4418927e-05
3,586	Make Your Database System Dream of Electric Sheep: Towards Self-Driving Operation	2021	VLDB	7.2834069e-05
6,311	Worker Skill Estimation in Team-Based Tasks	2015	VLDB	5.9175619e-05
6,726	Data Management Perspectives on Business Process Management (Tutorial Overview)	2013	SIGMOD	5.790221e-05
6,897	Process Automation as the Foundation for E-Business	2000	VLDB	5.7440319e-05
9,361	Demonstration of Collaborative and Interactive Workflow-Based Data Analytics in Texera	2022	VLDB	5.2808574e-05
9,362	AgFlow: Agent-based Cross-Enterprise Workflow Management System	2001	VLDB	5.2808574e-05

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