GenAI in the Enterprise: Risks, Rewards, and Data Readiness
Five steps to trusted AI from Informatica World 2024
Welcome to the Cloud Database Report. I’m John Foley, a long-time tech journalist, including 18 years at InformationWeek, who then worked in strategic comms at Oracle, IBM, and MongoDB. I’m now a VP with Method Communications. Following is my report from Informatica World 2024 in Las Vegas. Informatica is a Method client.
Good AI requires good data.
Sounds simple, but few organizations can do it. Many don’t have all of the data-management pieces and processes in place to consistently produce the high quality data they need to be successful with artificial intelligence. Virtually everyone is racing to get there.
That was my No. 1 takeaway from Informatica World 2024 (May 19 - 23), where the company’s leaders, customers, and partners spent every minute of every session talking about how to achieve the sought-after state of data readiness. Gartner analyst Robert Thanaraj used the term “data fitness,” which is a good way…