What CIOs need to know about introducing AI

The number of enterprises implementing artificial intelligence (AI) has grown 270 per cent over the past four years and has tripled in the past year alone. And as companies become more comfortable with using AI to analyse data, a growing number are turning to acquisitions to gain a data advantage. Google and Salesforce provide two recent examples of this strategy. In June, Google spent $2.6 billion to acquire Looker, a data discovery and analytics startup. Looker's goal was to be an end-to-end analytics platform, able to connect, collect, analyse and visualise data across various databases and applications. In August, Salesforce completed its $15.7 billion acquisition of Tableau Software, a provider of data visualisation and analytics.