AI Readiness Starts Before the Model: Fixing the Master Data Foundation
Why reliable enterprise AI depends on governed business entities, clear ownership, and context that models can use AUDIENCE CIOs, CDOs, SAP and AI leaders PRIMARY QUERY What is AI-ready master data? NEXT ACTION Access the SAP AI readiness infographic Many enterprise AI programmes begin with the visible layer: selecting a model, identifying use cases, launching pilots, and measuring adoption. Yet the reliability of the result is determined much earlier, in the customer, supplier, material, financial, asset, workforce, and location data that tells the system how the business operates. If those core entities are duplicated, incomplete, inconsistently defined, or detached from accountable owners, AI does not remove the ambiguity. It processes that ambiguity faster and distributes it across more decisions, recommendations, and workflows. Direct answer: AI-ready master data is enterprise master data that is accurate, complete...