Three Critical Ingredients for AI, Machine Learning & Cognitive Computing Success

At Reltio we've been articulating a vision, which includes a pragmatic perspective of machine learning (ML) for over 3 years now. Realizing that not only does ML not offer a silver bullet, but there is still much to learn (pun intended) as to how such technologies can ultimately benefit both IT and business. Noted Big Data expert Bernard Marr provides a nice list of use cases that might be applied to your specific business and industry. The key is that a focused set of benefits for each users' role, must be defined in order for it to be accurately measured so it doesn't get labelled yet another (data) science project with limited value. Most companies are NOT ready for any form of AI, ML, or Cognitive Computing to help their business user, because their data is such poor shape to even attempt such an endeavor.