CEO and Co-Founder of Alation, the pioneer of the data catalog market and the leader in enterprise data intelligence solutions.
My company, Alation, partnered with Wakefield Research to survey senior enterprise data leaders about AI. We wanted to understand how prevalent AI projects are, to understand what drives success and to more generally understand trends. Not surprisingly, we found that almost every enterprise is deploying or has plans to deploy AI.
Organizations have copious data — data that continues to grow daily — and they have a ton of business problems that they could apply that data to. We’ve all seen the case studies about how AI helps drive innovation in products and services and improves operational efficiencies and customer experience. Far more interesting than intent, Wakefield also found that incomplete data is cited as one of the reasons why AI fails.
Every day, organizations are gathering information about…