77% of data management leader prioritize AI-ready data initiatives. It’s the clear #1 investment trend for the next 2-3 years.
But without the right data architecture, the majority of AI projects is destined to fail before production.

There are free fundamental challenges:
Cloud, SaaS, on-premise. Your data lives everywhere, making it impossible to get complete answers without complete access.
Metadata is scattered across systems. Business definitions are lost in tribal knowledge. AI lacks the right context to know what the data means.
Business teams and AI agents need instant access. But traditional approaches for them to wait on pipelines and IT.
Data fabric creates a unified layer across all your systems — query data where it lives while providing the context AI needs.
What it enables:
Connect every source. Cloud, SaaS, on-premise without moving data first.
Assemble metadata, definitions, and lineage automatically
Enable all agents, users, and tools instantly across domains
– Quest Diagnostics, VP of Data
What you will find in this report:
✓ Step-by-step journey from fragmented data to AI-ready foundation
✓ How to assess your data readiness for AI
✓ Technologies and architectures needed to support AI-ready data
✓ Building the business case and securing executive buy-in
✓ Governance strategies that scale AI while mitigating risks
