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Why the semantic layer is becoming the foundation for trusted agentic AI
Agentic AI is making the semantic layer an essential enterprise priority because headless agents asking thousands of questions simultaneously have zero tolerance for inconsistent data definitions. This change is a core principle of a new partnership announced at the Snowflake Summit, according to Dave Mariani (pictured, right), chief technology officer of AtScale Inc. The company, ...
AI-driven financial analysis compresses investment research from days to minutes
Historically, investment research involved human analysts spending days reading and evaluating massive financial reports. Now, AI-driven financial analysis is covering all of that work in just a few minutes. The catalyst was a 2020 academic paper titled “Lazy Prices,” published by Harvard professor Lauren Cohen, which found that changes in the risk sections of SEC Form 10-K ...
Becoming an AI-native company is existential for every business, says Dell CMO
Becoming an AI-native company is no longer the competitive advantage it was five minutes ago. Now, it’s an empirical obligation, and Dell Technologies Inc. made that case to customers at its annual flagship event. This message was hammered home during Dell Technologies World in Las Vegas, featuring a roster of enterprise customers that set the ...
‘Slay the dragon’: Appian says process orchestration is the fix enterprise AI keeps skipping
The enthusiasm for enterprise AI is outpacing strategic thinking — and process automation, not more AI tools, is the fix most organizations might be missing. The wall that most enterprises face is an overabundance of unmanaged “white space”, not a lack of AI tools, according to Marc Wilson (pictured), co-founder and chief executive ambassador at Appian ...
No more waiting: Enterprise AI transformation has become the top CEO mandate
Enterprise AI transformation is clearing the proof-of-concept stage for many organizations, with execution at scale becoming the new challenge that IT departments alone can’t handle. Governance, talent and organizational structure are required to meet C-suite mandates, according to Daniel Prager (pictured, right), global partner development lead for Google Cloud at Slalom Consulting LLC, a global ...
With agents on the rise, is the ‘modern’ data stack already legacy infrastructure?
The modern data stack might already be the new legacy. In response, Google Cloud is rebuilding for a world where AI agents — not humans — are the primary users of data infrastructure, unveiling an agentic data platform called Agentic Data Cloud designed for that new era. This is a fundamentally different architecture, according to ...
‘You can’t make great decisions without good data’: How fragmented data blocks enterprise AI success
Without trusted data as the foundation, even the most sophisticated models will produce outcomes that enterprises can’t act on with confidence. As a matter of fact, enterprises are paying a steep price because of fragmented, problematic data stores, according to Alyson Welch (pictured), chief revenue officer at Reltio Inc., a cloud-native master management company. Organizations ...
Enterprises are leaving major AI customer experience gains on the table
Enterprises are investing heavily in AI customer experience, but many experiments are stalling out before ever going live. The culprit is a confidence gap, according to Chris Mina (pictured), chief product and technology officer at LivePerson Inc. Organizations build compelling proof-of-concept workflows and run successful demos, but freeze up when edge cases materialize or legal ...
Why virtualization modernization remains enterprise IT’s hardest leap
Enterprises are locked in a long-term standoff with legacy infrastructure, with growing demand for virtualization modernization that doesn’t require a full rebuild. SUSE S.A. has positioned itself to help customers bridge that gap, but the challenge is less technical than psychological, according to Imran Khan (pictured), chief customer officer of SUSE. Organizations with imposing, decades-old ...
‘Nobody wants to be a news story,’ but bad data is making that a real risk factor for enterprise AI
Data quality is emerging as the critical gating factor separating enterprise AI projects that produce results from those that fizzle out. However, leadership pressure to move fast on AI is running into a difficult reality at many organizations, according to Matt Hayes (pictured), general manager of the data business unit at Qlik Technologies Inc. Companies ...