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Nearly nine out of 10 business leaders say their organizations’ data ecosystems are ready to build and deploy AI, according to a recent survey. But 84% of the IT practitioners surveyed spend at least one hour a day fixing data problems. Seventy percent spend one to four hours a day remediating data issues, while 14% spend more than four hours each day.

The era of AI experimentation is over. Organizations want to see ROI. And they will—as long as they understand that the competitive edge isn’t in AI itself. With AI evolving rapidly, businesses need a clear strategy that cuts through the noise and generates ROI. This key strategy is to embed AI into core business processes. This post will cover five enterprise AI trends for the new era of AI and why process is the key to ROI. The most talked-about trend today is agentic AI.

Every article I read highlights the need for rapid adoption of AI, with emphasis on agentic and generative AI redefining the boundaries of data architectures. As organizations expand automation, personalization and real-time decision-making, they face a fundamental challenge: data gravity – especially to meet the demands of AI reasoning inference workloads – is pulling AI workloads toward storage, but disaggregated architectures struggle to keep pace with the need for rapid data access.