Viewpoint: Making Enterprise Data AI-Ready
March 16, 2026
Generative AI adoption continues to accelerate across the enterprise, but production-scale impact remains uneven.
Most initiatives remain in pilot mode, and enterprises are not jumping directly to autonomous, multi-agent systems. Instead, they are starting with AI that augments human work. More advanced agentic use cases (such as those that influence pricing, reconciliation, forecasting, or audit workflows) are few.
At the same time, organizations are discovering that simply centralizing data in cloud data warehouses or lakehouses does not automatically make that data usable for AI. The result is that AI pilots often stall before reaching production. To understand this dynamic, TDWI spoke with Jason Klein, director of portfolio marketing for AI at Alteryx.
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