I have always enjoyed Thanksgiving family get togethers because among other things, gives me a chance to catch up with what the next generation is up to - always get to learn a thing or two from them. And this time, enjoyed talking to my niece's husband who thinks very deeply about data privacy (working... Continue Reading →
#75: GenAI Data Strategy: High-quality Training data
There is a lot of talk about a data strategy for Generative AI. And rightfully so - as companies will continue to find out ways to leverage enterprise data assets to better ground the Foundation Models (FMs). Earlier this year, I and a couple of my colleagues had written a blogpost on data governance for... Continue Reading →
#74: Enterprise Gen AI: it is all about the data
The Scaling Laws have formed the basis for the development efforts of the various companies building Foundation Models. Simplistically put, the models get better with model size, dataset size, and the amount of compute used for training, and by and large, this has held across all the FMs. After the astonishingly rapid development in the... Continue Reading →
#73: The Value of Data
In enterprise data circles, it is a well-known statistic that less than 30% of companies claim to have been successful in becoming a data driven organization. What is not so easy is to figure out why companies have such a hard time getting actionable insights from data – in my experience consulting with many companies,... Continue Reading →
#72: Software 2.0 in the Enterprise
In 2020, Gartner identified Composability as a key factor to be resilient and agile in an uncertain and rapidly changing environment. Fast forward to 2022 and as most companies are bracing down an economic slowdown, it is becoming important for CIOs and IT leaders to accelerate the adoption of technologies that help business functions to:... Continue Reading →