Data Quality stories
Trusted product data is becoming the key test for AI adoption, with 66% of manufacturers saying systems fail without it.
Most firms are still struggling to verify the data behind AI agents, even as more move them from pilots into production.
Weak governance leaves firms exposed to compliance risk, duplicate records and faulty decisions as data volumes keep rising across departments.
Most enterprises are overhauling data systems as 95% say governance and infrastructure hurdles have delayed or cancelled AI projects.
Spark teams risk higher bills or slower jobs unless they tune serverless settings, Google Cloud says, as it adds AI help for failures.
Poor data quality is driving costly errors, weaker customer service and missed revenue unless organisations keep records accurate and current.
Businesses will be able to search charts, tables and images in Box content using Gemini Multimodal Embeddings 2, reducing missed context in files.
Poor data quality is still holding back AI and reporting, even as businesses add specialist roles and restructure their data teams.
Poor-quality sanctions lists can swamp compliance teams with false alerts while letting real matches slip through, raising regulatory risk.
Businesses that stop at ERP risk leaving approvals, invoices and card spend manual, undermining the clean data the ledger needs.
Only 7% of organisations say their data is ready for AI, risking weaker personalisation and costlier technology investments.
Only one in six staff are getting enough AI training, leaving firms exposed to poor decisions, shadow tools and weak returns.
Poor workflows are leaving UK marketing teams short of time, with 45% spending at least a quarter of the week on admin.
Irish organisations could cut delivery risk and duplication as the firms link scattered data for GIS, cloud and AI projects.
Data teams could see manual cataloguing cut sharply as the tool carries governance labels and trust signals downstream across Dataplex and BigQuery.
Most IT teams are finding AI in service management costs more in training, data cleanup and upkeep than they expected.
Most firms are still using AI to speed up staff tasks rather than redesigning workflows, even as adoption jumps to 51%.
A New Zealand study found users can get markedly different brand recommendations from ChatGPT, Google AI Mode and Microsoft Copilot.
The move has lifted approval rates and cut reconciliation work as the luxury group standardises payments across stores and online in 14 countries.
Australian small businesses will be able to query MYOB financial data in Claude and ChatGPT, including overdue invoices and profit figures.
