The Unstructured Data Mandate for AI Success

In this TechRepublic exclusive, a COO states that successful AI initiatives must have the right unstructured data at the right time. Then, she details the proper unstructured data preparation for AI.

Everyone’s talking about unstructured data these days. While unstructured data in the form of user documents has been around for decades, its volume, variety, and the number of applications that generate it — from self-driving cars to smart cameras to genome sequencers — have exploded in recent years, making it the largest and most valuable source of data in an organization, especially in the age of generative AI.

As noted by the authors of a recent Harvard Business Review article: “A company’s content lies largely in ‘unstructured data’ — those emails, contracts, forms, SharePoint files, recordings of meetings and so forth created via work processes. That proprietary content makes gen AI more distinctive, more knowledgeable about ...