Gartner® Report: A Journey Guide to Deliver AI Success Through AI-Ready Data
Learn why AI-ready data initiatives are the top investment priority for 77% of organizations and how data fabric architecture provides the foundational capabilities needed to support both traditional analytics and emerging AI use cases.
Building an AI-Ready Data Foundation
The new Gartner research reveals that “use of AI-ready data to support AI initiatives (including GenAI applications) requires evolutionary changes to data management and urgent upgrades to data architecture, platforms, skills and processes.”
From our point of view, this report helps D&A leaders navigate the changes needed to enable and operationalize AI-ready data as an iterative and agile discipline through architecture, technology and skills.
What we think you’ll learn:
- Why AI-ready data initiatives are the top investment priority for 77% of organizations — and what makes data “AI-ready”
- How data fabric is the key foundational data management technology to enable AI
- Why metadata management and semantic context become essential for GenAI accuracy and reducing bias in AI models
The research provides practical steps for building on existing data investments while creating the flexible, federated foundation that AI initiatives require.
Gartner, A Journey Guide to Deliver AI Success Through AI-Ready Data, By Ehtisham Zaidi, Roxane Edjlali, 11 July 2025.
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