Enterprise hits and misses - AI forces a massive data rethink, Aneel Bhusri returns as Workday CEO, and the AI versus SaaS tension persists

Lead story - AI forces a massive enterprise data rethink - so what's next?

So, Ian unfurled one of the best enterprise AI pieces of the year in Eloi vs Morlocks - does AI prove the spreadsheet rebels were right all along? This is not the type of debate with one right answer, but I'll give it a once-over anyhow. Ian is making a few crucial points:

• Before companies make a "quality data for AI" push, they might want to rethink the data AI really needs!
• The best AI needs data context. In many cases, that data context is individual and therefore "messy," and outside the scope of transactional systems.
• "Dirty data" is an enterprise reckoning - but you don't need to boil the data ocean to get started.
• The enterprise rebels who rely on their own dirty data shouldn't be punished, but understood (and, maybe, historically appreciated!)

Ian, what ...