From Pilot to Production
How AI Agents Are Transforming Enterprise Data Work on Databricks AI agents are moving fast from experiment to infrastructure. Gartner expects 40% of enterprise applications to embed task-specific agents by the end of 2026, up from under 5% in 2025.¹ The harder number sits just behind it: only around 31% of enterprises report an agent running in production, with banking and […]
Beyond the Dashboard
Building Governed, Production-Ready Apps on Databricks Application building has quietly moved outside IT. Gartner expects roughly 75% of new enterprise applications to be built with low-code tools by 2026, and Forrester puts the number of citizen developers worldwide at 16.2 million this year, up 38% from 2025.¹² Business teams aren’t waiting for a development queue anymore. They’re building. […]
The Data Foundation Problem
Why AI and Analytics Start With Clean, Governed Data on Databricks IBM’s 2025 Global CDO Study surveyed 1,700 chief data officers and found that only 26% are confident their organization’s data can support new AI-enabled revenue streams.¹ That’s not a confidence problem. It’s a description of what most enterprise data looks like: fragmented, inconsistently defined, and undocumented in the […]
From Reporting to Reasoning
Building a Self-Service Analytics Foundation on Databricks Nucleus Research has found that analytics returns roughly $13 for every dollar invested, one of the more reliable ROI figures in enterprise technology.¹ Gartner separately expects more than 80% of enterprises to have generative AI applications live by the end of 2026, with conversational analytics among the fastest-adopted use cases.² Put together, […]
Fighting Agents with Agents
Why the AI Era Demands a Unified Security Data Platform For two decades, the security operations center has been fighting a losing battle with its own data. Every new cloud platform, identity system, SaaS application, and endpoint agent produces more telemetry, and every byte of that telemetry carries an ingestion price tag in a traditional […]
Data Strategy and the Modern Data Platform: Better Together
Why pairing deliberate strategy with the right platform is what separates organizations that realize value from those still waiting for it. Most enterprises have already consolidated their data. Warehouses have been rationalized, lakes have been built, and pipelines run automatically. That progress is real. But it is also where many organizations stall. They have built the plumbing […]
Monitoring Modern Infrastructure eBook
The view that you built should be standardized across all applications. I’ve gotten a lot of positive feedback from the people who have used it” Head of Product, Major Healthcare Analytics Organization Download the Monitoring Modern Infrastructure eBook Download this eBook and learn how to outline an effective framework for monitoring modern infrastructure and applications, […]
Higher Education Challenges and Understanding the Impact of Data
Higher education institutions are facing major headwinds. Greater student expectations, declining enrollment, and an uncertain economy are pressuring colleges and universities to think critically about their operations and where to optimize for future growth and relevance. Additionally, administrators are constantly tasked with doing more with less and must make difficult decisions on where to invest […]
The Rise of Retail Media
In the past, media was media, and retail was retail. Media companies used content like print, radio, linear TV, digital, and social media to attract consumers, collected audience data through cookies, and monetized the content by selling ads and subscriptions. Retail companies used products to attract customers, collected customer data at the point of sale, […]
eTail West Retrospective – First Party Data, Omnichannel, Retail Media, and AI
Freezing in the Desert On February 27th – March 2nd, 2023, Infinitive attended eTail West in Palm Springs, CA, where discussions about first party data and omnichannel marketing were front and center. The weather was unseasonably cold, but the conference was hot. In this blog we will cover some of the highlights from the conference. […]