Large organisations have always struggled with having an agreed, corporate-wide set of data for things that cross organisational boundaries: customers, products, locations, assets etc. A dedicated multi-billion-dollar software market, master data management (MDM), grew up to address this issue. Why is it so hard to get a single list of customers or products? The average…
In December 2025 Snowflake Ventures made a strategic (though undisclosed in monetary value) investment in data management vendor Ataccama. This was a more interesting event than just a regular financing round for a software vendor, as it has implications for the broader data quality industry. There have been issues with data quality ever since the…
Large language models (LLMs) have been heavily promoted as productivity tools for enterprises in a range of use cases, such as customer chatbots, content creation for marketing material, and enabling employees to easily access and summarise documents like product documentation or product manuals. There are other use cases, such as automation of business processes like…
It is now three years since ChatGPT was launched, and introduced most of the world to generative AI. Corporations and public sector bodies alike have rushed to adopt this latest technology, but with limited success. The proportion of AI projects that actually succeed has been estimated at up to 20% (RAND) 13% (Gartner) and 5%…
What is best practice for organisations deploying AI in the enterprise? In this blog we examine the organisation, governance, architecture, processes, culture and technology needed for effective AI deployment. To begin with, an organisation needs to consider why it is considering deploying AI in the first place, just as it would with any new technology.…
InterSystems held an analyst briefing day in their Windsor offices on 23rd September 2025. The company was founded by Terry Ragon in 1978, and he is still their CEO. The company is privately held, with a single investor and no debt. The company is headquartered in Boston, and in 2024 the company achieved $1.1 billion…
The worlds of data management and artificial intelligence (AI) are gradually converging. There are many segments of the huge $92 billion enterprise data management market, including data governance, master data management, data quality, data integration, databases and data analytics. Every one of these has been touched by AI to some extent. Enterprise data management continues…