Artificial Intelligence in the Enterprise – Cami Rosso – Medium

Applied artificial intelligence (AI) and advanced machine learning are among Gartner's Top 10 Strategic Technology Trends for 2017. AI is beginning to be deployed by companies globally. International Data Corporation (IDC) forecasts a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 55.1 percent during 2016–2020 for AI and cognitive systems solutions in its Worldwide Semiannual Cognitive/Artificial Intelligence Systems Spending Guide. IDC estimates spending on cognitive applications to reach $18.2 billion by 2020. Large enterprise resource planning (ERP) and customer relationship management (CRM) software providers such as Salesforce, IBM, Oracle and SAP are offering AI solutions to capture this growing market opportunity along with non-traditional software providers like General Electric (GE).