Data Infrastructure: The Missing Link In Successful AI Adoption
CIO, Wednesday, July 23rd, 2025
You can't fuel AI with outdated pipes. Without the right data infrastructure, even the smartest AI is just guessing.
You know the old saying that you can lead a horse to water, but not make it drink?
The same sort of logic can be applied to AI adoption by modern businesses: You can roll out AI systems, but you can't force them to use the data they need to operate effectively.
In fact, without a modern data infrastructure, you can't feed relevant data into AI systems very well at all - hence why challenges related to data infrastructure modernization are among the top barriers to successful AI adoption for companies across a range of industries, according to a recent Indicium survey about data infrastructure and AI adoption.