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Updated April 29, 2026

I'm hosting a session on May 20. Here's what we'll dig into. Agentic AI looks impressive in a demo, until you ask it a question your CFO actually cares about. If an AI agent can't reliably answer “What was net…

Updated April 23, 2026

If your organization has invested in AI and isn’t seeing returns, the problem probably isn’t the LLM. It’s the foundation underneath it. The enterprises getting AI into production built semantic infrastructure first: consistent business definitions, governed metrics, and shared context…

Updated April 16, 2026

Retailers that deploy autonomous AI without governed business context will not discover the problem in a report. They will discover it in a fulfillment failure, a margin error, or a pricing decision that made sense to the agent but not…

Updated April 6, 2026

For years, data governance was viewed as a background concern. Teams had bigger priorities to tackle and more pertinent problems to solve. Then AI agents came into the fold and started generating business decisions from inconsistent data, and suddenly, governance…

Updated March 30, 2026

Over the past year alone, AI tools that once surfaced insights and handed them to a human for action have begun carrying out those actions themselves. Sixty-two percent of organizations are now experimenting with AI agents, according to McKinsey's latest…

Updated March 26, 2026

Autonomous AI agents, which are systems designed to accomplish tasks and goals independently without human oversight, have become integral across a wide range of use cases, spanning from customer service to supply chain management. It's no surprise that, as regulatory…

Updated March 12, 2026

Gartner opened the Data & Analytics Summit 2026 with a memorable metaphor. The keynote framed the current moment as a raft ride through a roaring, treacherous river. The river represented AI. Fast-moving. Powerful. Difficult to control. The message was clear.…

Updated March 11, 2026

A logistics company deploys an AI agent to monitor inventory and automatically trigger reorders. The model is solid. The prompts are well-engineered. The agent connects to their analytics environment and starts running. Three weeks in, it fires a reorder for…

Updated March 5, 2026

I've been in the BI and data space long enough to recognize when something fundamental shifts. Denny Lee and I first worked together when he was at Microsoft on SQL Server Analysis Services (SSAS), and I was a customer building…

Updated February 25, 2026

Most enterprise AI conversations still center on prompts, whether through chat interfaces, copilots, or question-answer workflows. But the highest-value AI agents don’t wait for someone to ask a question. They monitor signals, detect thresholds, and trigger actions. These are headless…

Updated February 10, 2026

AI governance discussions used to center on frameworks and theoretical risk scenarios. This month’s TDWI webinar with Cal Al-Dhubaib, head of AI and data science at Further, revealed the many ways in which theory has moved to the practical. As…

Updated December 9, 2025

AI Adoption Has Outpaced AI Readiness Every enterprise I talk to right now is chasing the same goal: operationalizing AI agents and agentic analytics. The enthusiasm is there. The budgets are there. The pilots are running. But the confidence? That's…