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 […]
Hidden Delays in AML Transformation
Why AML modernization Stalls after go-live, and how the right transformation approach keeps it moving The change management, control alignment, and gap analysis that decide whether a new AML platform actually changes how work gets done. In our first post, we laid out the architecture behind AML Catalyst, a unified AML platform on Databricks […]
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 […]
The Blueprint to a Unified Operation: Building an Enterprise-Ready Databricks Center of Excellence
As organizations accelerate their adoption of Databricks for analytics, AI, and data engineering, many quickly realize that scaling the platform across business units is far more complex than simply spinning up a workspace. Teams often struggle with fragmented ownership, inconsistent governance, rising cloud costs, unclear access models, and an inability to operationalize best practices at […]
Quantum Computing and U.S. Retail Banking: Preparing Today for Tomorrow’s Quantum Advantage
Over the past decade, advances in generative AI, cloud migration, and big‑data analytics have defined the modernization journey for U.S. retail banks. Now, a new frontier is emerging : quantum computing : poised to redefine risk modeling, cybersecurity, fraud detection, cryptography, and portfolio management. For banks that compete on speed, trust, and insight, understanding quantum’s […]
Chinese Hack Demonstrates the Importance of Asset Management within IT/GRC
Old routers never die. They just get hacked by the Chinese. U.S. officials recently revealed a concerning cyber operation reportedly involving Chinese actors, targeting outdated home and office Wi-Fi routers in the United States. This operation aimed to exploit vulnerabilities in these devices to potentially disrupt critical infrastructure like electrical and water supplies. Most of […]
How Infinitive Assisted a Fortune 100 FSI Strengthen its Control Environment and Avoid Costly Penalties
Challenge A Fortune 100 FSI faced intense regulatory scrutiny during their migration to the Cloud. The client engaged Infinitive to perform a comprehensive gap assessment of its critical technology processes, identify and remediate weaknesses in its control environment, and work with cross-functional teams across the enterprise to develop implementation plans with feasible timelines. Solution […]
Cloud Data & Risk Controls
Challenge A Fortune 100 FSI needed to understand and control data management risks as it transitioned from running daily batch jobs to streaming data in near real time. The client required Infinitive’s help to implement a new data governance strategy to ensure data integrity and validity. Solution Over 12-weeks, Infinitive engaged with cross-functional teams of […]