Data strategy trends for 2025 reflect a growing paradox: While organizations race to adopt generative AI and automation, their disconnected data initiatives are creating new silos rather than breaking them down. DATAVERSITY’s® 2024 Trends in Data Management survey highlights this growing challenge, with 68% of respondents citing data silos as their top concern – up 7% from […]
Answering the Build vs. Buy Question for Generative AI
Building custom generative AI (GenAI) technology solutions is the best way to gain a competitive edge by leveraging GenAI tools and services tailored to your business. On the other hand, building GenAI models from scratch is a costly and complicated endeavor – which is why many businesses instead settle for a genAI strategy wherein they […]
Ask a Data Ethicist: How Can We Set Realistic Expectations About AI?
One of the most important questions about using AI responsibly has very little to do with data, models, or anything technical. It has to do with the power of a captivating story about magical thinking. There’s a set of beliefs driven by over-exuberant AI hype – that AI is going to revolutionize everything! How can […]
From AI Hype to Adoption: What’s Holding AI Back in 2024?
When generative AI exploded onto the tech scene in 2022, companies scrambled to adopt the “Next Big Thing.” Now, everyone from the smallest startups to the biggest banks and retailers wants to reap the benefits it has to offer. GenAI promised a workforce revolution – let the computer take care of your busywork so you […]
A Deep Dive into Data Strategy: Accelerating AI Adoption for Businesses
In today’s digital age, vast amounts of business data are gathered from different sources. Even when organizations strategically invest in analytics tools, they still face challenges in the form of data silos, unstructured data management, and failure of business-driven insights from tools. To combat these challenges, more businesses are revamping with data strategy to seamlessly […]
How to Assess GenAI’s Impact on Your Business
Since the beginning of 2023, generative AI (GenAI) has quickly made a significant impact across an expanding range of industries and applications. In just over a year since its groundbreaking debut, there’s much to celebrate about GenAI – and even more to still uncover and understand. Today, 79% of employees report at least some exposure to AI, […]
Maximizing Business Value with Generative AI
Have we ever seen something get adopted so quickly as generative AI (GenAI) compared to the past? Think about it: ChatGPT launched in 2022 and gained 100 million users in two months. In comparison, we have been hearing about AI for a few years, but the adoption rates of AI have varied from 25% to […]
IT leaders Need to Invest in AI – Could ITAM and FinOps Be the Solution?
Artificial intelligence is the top investment area for CIOs in 2024. IT leaders see in generative AI an opportunity to accelerate innovation, improve employee productivity, and gain competitive advantage. Unfortunately, investing in AI is not cheap. CIOs will need to find significant budget to make traction in their AI roadmap and we believe IT asset […]
Unleashing the Power of AI in Life Sciences
The life sciences industry is generating an increasing number of data points a day. While this data is essential to helping organizations make insight-informed decisions about critical operations, such as in clinical trial development, it is also proving to be a complex and daunting task, taking a significant toll on sponsors and clinical sites. In their quest […]
Don’t Dawdle, Don’t Dabble – Scale AI, Now
Most enterprises suffer from spotty deployment and management of artificial intelligence (AI) initiatives. As different parts of the organization experiment with AI in silos, they waste both resources and the opportunity to learn from the experience of others. When my company commissioned an independent third-party survey of more than 2,500 AI practitioners across industries and geographies, […]