Having Valuable Data Is Not the Same as Being Able to Use It
Before enterprise data can support a new AI, analytics, or business use case, organizations need to answer three fundamental questions.
Can we reach it?
Valuable information may still be distributed across legacy applications, databases, file systems, and acquired environments that are difficult or costly to maintain.
Can we trust and use it?
Access alone does not establish quality, context, completeness, or suitability for a particular use case.
Can we govern it?
Retention, privacy, security, legal, access, sovereignty, and disposition requirements do not disappear when data leaves its original application.
AI readiness starts with making deliberate decisions about the data, independent of the system that created it.