Maximizing ROI from AI-Ready Data

Your AI strategy hinges on one critical decision: Is your data truly ready?

This IDC Analyst Connection answers the questions keeping executives up at night: How do you build scalable data foundations? What role do services partners play? How do you guarantee ROI?

IDC analysts reveal how enterprise intelligence architectures drive competitive advantage and measurable returns.

Organizations investing in AI-ready foundations achieve 5.9% operational improvements and accelerate innovation by 24%.

But success requires more than technology – it demands strategy, governance, and organizational alignment.

Jennifer Hamel

Senior Research Director, Enterprise Intelligence Services

Jennifer Hamel is a senior research director for IDC's Worldwide Services team, responsible for the Enterprise Intelligence Services research program. In this research, Ms. Hamel covers the life cycle of project oriented, managed, and support services related to the deployment of technologies, such as data management, analytics, artificial intelligence (AI), and automation, as part of enterprise intelligence initiatives. In particular, her research focuses on how services providers work with organizations to ensure investments in enterprise intelligence technologies result in improved business outcomes.

Stewart Bond

Vice President, Data Intelligence and Integration Software

Mr. Bond has led numerous research projects and publications and is recognized as a valued industry analyst by leading software vendors, consumers, and peers in the areas of enterprise and data integration, business-to-business integration, Big Data, and cloud. Prior to becoming a market and industry analyst in 2011, Stewart spent 10 years with IBM as a master-certified IT architect, consulting on information management and middleware strategies and delivering integration solutions to customers around the globe.