The Enterprises Currently Winning At AI Built The Data Foundation Everyone Else Skipped
siliconANGLE, Thursday, April 16th, 2026
Most enterprises have committed budget to AI, but few have built the data infrastructure needed to turn that spending into scalable AI outcomes.
The problem is less about model capability than it is about data discipline. As organizations race to deploy, many are discovering that without trusted, governed data at the foundation, scalable AI outcomes remain out of reach. That reckoning is upending how both technology platforms and systems integrators approach the enterprise AI journey, according to Sunil Varanasy (pictured, right), data and AI head for manufacturing, logistics, energy and utilities at Cognizant Technology Solutions Corp.