Data Velocity: The Key To Turning AI Hype Into Enterprise Advantage
eWEEK, Monday, August 25th, 2025
The outlook for digital transformation appears bleak, and there's no indication it's improving. While 90% of C-level leaders surveyed by McKinsey say their companies have undergone a digital transformation in the last two years, the risk of failure falls as high as 95%, according to Bain & Company. For most organizations, becoming truly data-driven remains an aspiration rather than a reality.
Meanwhile, the rise of agentic AI has created fresh excitement-and fresh confusion. While AI tools offer the promise of automation, prediction, and optimization, they can't fix the root cause behind stalled digital and AI initiatives: fragmented, siloed data.
AI + data intelligence = A symbiotic relationship
AI is now at the heart of modern enterprise strategy, but it cannot succeed in isolation. AI is the brain, analyzing, learning, and making decisions. Digital transformation is the body-modernizing systems, workflows, and customer experiences. The lifeblood flowing between them? Unified, real-time intelligent data.