CIOs Prioritize Data Readiness For Autonomy

As CIOs pivot from 2025 pilots to 2026 operations, industry leaders warn that unstructured 'dark data' (80–90% of enterprise information) blocks AI automation unless organisations fix decades-old data infrastructure. The article cites Gartner's $12.9 million annual cost of poor data and IDC's $632 billion AI spending forecast for 2028, arguing Intelligent Document Processing is essential to produce machine-readable data for neuro-symbolic systems and governance.
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