5 AI Trends Profoundly Benefiting Business Bottom Lines

In today's tumultuous business-scape amid increasingly intricate, and often vexing, marketplace conditions, curating and mining data to drive analytics-based decision making is just no longer enough. For competing with maximum, sustained impact and mitigated opportunity loss, it's rapidly monetizing data that's now the name of the game--particularly when spurred by artificial intelligence (AI). Indeed, emerging AI methodologies are helping forward-thinking companies achieve and sustain true agility, fuel growth and compete far more aggressively than ever before. AI is critical as a means toward those ends and also certainly with respect to aptly predicting, preparing and responding to prospective crises as with the COVID-19 pandemic the globe is currently immersed in. In fact, Gartner recently cited the need for "smarter, faster, more responsible AI" as its No. 1 top trend that data and analytics leaders should focus on--particularly those looking to "make essential investments to prepare for a post-pandemic reset."