It’s go-time for enterprise AI. A PagerDuty global survey of 1,000 IT and business executives found that 62% of companies using agentic AI expect a return of 171% on average. But getting to ROI is no easy task. Recent surveys show mixed results on efforts thus far, with “getting strategies right” and “making data ‘AI-ready’” […]| TDAN.com
Most people cringe when they hear the word politics in the workplace. It brings to mind backroom deals, favoritism, turf wars, and decision-making that feels more about power than about progress. In the world of data, politics often gets blamed for blocking change — departments hoarding information, leaders fighting over priorities, and executives struggling to […]| TDAN.com
Compliance today isn’t just about keeping pace with rules and regulations; it’s about keeping pace with culture. Globalization, geopolitical uncertainty, and rapid shifts in technology mean the risks companies face are more complex than ever. Yet too many organizations are still relying on legacy systems, outdated processes, and once-a-year, check-a-box training to protect their people […]| TDAN.com
Marketers missed the real story while they scrambled to rebuild audience targeting without cookies: LLMs weren’t just changing how we write. They were rewriting the rules of how we understand consumer behavior online. The death of the third-party cookie was supposed to kill behavioral targeting. Instead, it’s about to become a lot smarter. The New […]| TDAN.com
A new survey of 1,250 data governance executives commissioned by OneTrust offers a detailed snapshot of how organizations are grappling with the realities of AI adoption. The findings are clear: Enterprise use of artificial intelligence has surged, but the governance structures required to manage it have not kept pace. As adoption accelerates, governance is no longer optional […]| TDAN.com
Technology is not what powers a data-first culture, but people, operating models, and disciplined delivery. Most organizations already possess more tools and data than they can effectively utilize. What differentiates the leaders is that they tie analytics to real business results, productize effective data, govern for speed and security, and, most importantly, rewire decisions. While […]| TDAN.com
Despite years of experimentation, most organizations agree: Artificial intelligence hasn’t remade the enterprise or shattered ROI goals — yet. In fact, McKinsey found that only about 1% of respondents in a recent survey believe they are at artificial intelligence maturity. 80% of respondents in a similar report failed to see a tangible ROI from generative AI. The data above shows that AI system implementations from […]| TDAN.com
It’s been just a few months since I checked off one of the top items on my bucket list. This past May, my wife and I traveled to London and Amsterdam. We built our trip around attending several concerts at the third-ever Gustav Mahler Festival [1]. We’d awoken at 3:30 a.m. back in February to […]| TDAN.com
This column explores how to protect against the risks of AI in legal confidentiality and non-disclosure agreements (NDAs). When companies are considering entering into a business relationship and/or are engaging in preliminary discussions about a contemplated agreement, they often create a term sheet that outlines the key business and legal provisions to be included in […]| TDAN.com
Agentic AI knows what it wants when it comes to enterprise storage. These autonomous, AI-driven agents can make their own decisions, and it has become clear that what they require from enterprise storage solutions is low latency, high performance, 100% availability, scalability, intelligent orchestration, cyber resilience, and a retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) reference architecture. Agentic AI […]| TDAN.com
AI agents can do amazing things to make the lives of IT professionals easier. But, they also have the potential to do amazingly bad things — a lesson some organizations are already learning the hard way. For instance, Replit, a provider of software development tools, announced in July 2025 that an AI tool had deleted an entire production database. Although it’s […]| TDAN.com
Technology often moves faster than the rules meant to govern it. Regulators, tasked with protecting data they don’t always fully understand, have traditionally responded after problems occur, using past incidents to shape future policies. It’s a reactive approach that struggles to keep pace with innovation. But as cyber threats have escalated and the consequences have […]| TDAN.com
Recently, I’ve been digging into what the future of work and the workforce might be in a post-GenAI world. Right now, organizations are experimenting with and adopting various forms of AI, GenAI, and agentic AI. We are seeing the impact of this in recruitment in areas such as customer service (replaced with chatbots), management consulting, […]| TDAN.com
I’ve written elsewhere about the value of grounding your metrics program in semantics.1 This article goes well beyond that. We are just beginning to see a pattern of evolution that seems to be enabled, perhaps even encouraged, by the collapsing of silos into a data-centric knowledge graph. It is still early days, but the patterns […]| TDAN.com
The global financial sector is undergoing a profound digital transformation, redefining how individuals and institutions interact with their money. In this rapidly evolving landscape, digital identity security has become paramount, serving as the bedrock for trust and efficiency in online banking, e-commerce, and various other financial services. While this interconnectedness offers unprecedented convenience and opportunities, […]| TDAN.com
Introduction What is the difference between records and data? What differentiates records managers from data managers? Do these distinctions still matter as organizations take the plunge into artificial intelligence? Discussions that attempt to distinguish between records and data frequently articulate a heuristic for differentiation. “These items are records; those items are data.” Many organizations have […]| TDAN.com