AI-Ready Data: Your Best Enterprise Asset

Today’s enterprises are awash in data. Emails, documents, spreadsheets, chat logs, videos, images — these unstructured assets make up 70–90% of an organisation's data, according to Gartner. And while this content is often overlooked or siloed across repositories, it holds immense value — if only it could be unlocked.

Though such data may seem trivial, hidden in unstructured data are the insights that drive smarter decisions, operational efficiency, and innovation. An email exchange may reveal unmet customer needs. A forgotten file might contain critical compliance information. A misfiled document in a shared drive could expose sensitive employee or customer data. But without structure or governance, these assets remain chaotic and unusable — and that’s a major problem for organisations investing in AI.

Because the truth is simple: AI fails when data is a mess.

Generative AI tools are only as good as the data that feeds them. If that data is scattered, unstructured, or riddled with risk, the results will be unreliable, inaccurate, and potentially harmful. Feeding raw, ungoverned data into AI is like asking a new hire to analyse customer satisfaction using a pile of disorganised customer contracts — without any context or clarity, the answers are bound to be wrong. 

It’s no surprise, then, that 60% of business leaders lack confidence in their data-AI readiness to realise business value from GenAI, despite 79% expecting it to deliver competitive advantage within the next 18 months.   

That’s why AI-ready data is rapidly becoming an enterprise’s most valuable asset.

AI-ready data isn’t just clean. It’s contextualised, permissioned, labelled, and organised. It’s governed in line with compliance requirements. It’s discoverable and enriched. And when your data reaches this state, AI can finally do what it promises: deliver accurate, actionable insights that leaders can trust.

Embracing intelligent information management solutions, like those offered by EncompaaS, can solve this very challenge. By transforming chaotic, unstructured content into a structured, governed knowledge base, organisations can establish a foundation of high-quality, AI-ready data. When information is discovered, enriched, and normalised across repositories, it becomes a trustworthy knowledge resource – enabling AI to deliver accurate, reliable and repeatable outcomes.

With AI-ready data in place, organisations can unlock previously untapped business intelligence, optimise operations, identify new revenue streams, and bring improved products and services to market faster. They gain the visibility to see trends and risks before competitors do — and the confidence to use AI in high-stakes decisions.

As data volumes explode and AI evolves at a rapid pace, ignoring unstructured data is no longer an option. Intelligent information management platforms help organisations take control of their data and prepare it for what’s next.

Without structured, governed data, your AI will never deliver on its potential. But with it, your data will become the competitive edge that powers your future.