The Data Reality Check: 2025 AI Adoption Report
DataArt's proprietary research, including interviews with industry advisors, clients, and our data & AI leaders across global markets, reveals a stark disconnect between AI ambitions and execution readiness. While 89% of organizations are actively exploring AI initiatives, only 11% of proof of concepts reached production in 2024.
Summary
- Governance Crisis: 73% cite data governance as the primary AI implementation barrier
- Advisory Shift: 68% predict fundamental role changes from coding to AI-powered advisory within 18 months
- Production Gap: Only 11% of AI pilots reach production despite 89% having active programs
- Foundation First: 84% of successful AI implementations built on cloud-native governance frameworks
- Reality Check: 82% of enterprises lack data maturity for production-scale AI deployment
Expert Quotes
Data governance is absolutely critical yet often overlooked because it's perceived as 'boring'.
It's not enough to define the use case; you must also assign responsibility for validation, oversight, and rollback.
If you are a software engineering firm and you still think of your business as writing custom code, you should have a plan B.
