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Agents Are Ready. Is Your Data?

Humans compensate for bad data. Agents can’t. Here’s what changes. The Uncomfortable Number A March 2026 study by Harvard Business Review Analytic Services and Cloudera surveyed 230+ enterprise data leaders with a simple question: is your data ready for AI? Only 7% said yes. Only 7%. Completely ready. The other 93% are not — and are running AI experiments on a foundation that was never designed for what they’re asking it to do. ...

April 12, 2026 · 4 min · Gouri Shankar Swamy