One area I think that we will see move away from the chatter and hype towards real , viable , profit-making deployments is AI . A recent Forrester research report predicted that enterprises this year will finally start to tap into the real value of AI as they understand the complexity of the planning , deployment and management of the technology . This is starting to happen because the key tenets of enabling AI and real-time analytics – giving employees the ability to access data whenever and wherever they need it – is now a reality . With more data in the cloud than ever before , the adoption of cloud-based data management has led to an increase in the deployment of selfservice , cloud-based data access , data preparation and data integration in an environment that enables businesses to unlock the power of the data . As AI matures further , we will see it being used to unleash the value of unstructured , text-based data – a format that has challenged data analysts and businesses over the years . Considering the huge amount of unstructured data out there , the doors that AI-based analytics open could make 2018 a really exciting year in this space .

48 March 2018