How DataOps can accelerate your journey to AI

Artificial intelligence (AI) technology has the potential to unlock new value from data and reveal new avenues of innovation for businesses. In fact, Gartner forecasts AI-derived value will reach USD 3.9 trillion
in 2022,1 as enterprises apply AI to build more intelligent and automated workflows, predict and shape future outcomes, and empower employees to do higher-value work.

However, there’s no AI without good information architecture (IA). AI needs data to be interconnected, accurate and fast; these requirements will expose any weaknesses in your information architecture. If your data is low-quality, inaccessible, siloed or untrustworthy, you won’t be able to realize the potential of AI and maximize the value of data-driven insight or operations. That’s why IBM developed the AI Ladder (see Figure 1)— it presents a unique perspective on how organizations can prepare for, and implement, AI technology. Organizations must modernize their data platform; collect, organize and analyze their data; and finally infuse AI throughout their business. These capabilities should leverage a scalable platform such as IBM Cloud Pak® for Data that can run on any cloud.