Business Tech Predictions: 10 Ways AI, Big Data, and Cloud Will Evolve in 2017

We've written a lot about the convergence of cloud infrastructure, Big Data, and artificial intelligence (AI) this year. Throughout the Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) space, we've seen an inextricable link between these three factors in business intelligence (BI) tools, social listening platforms, customer relationship management (CRM) solutions, or really any industry that's leveraging cloud-based data ingestion and analysis--which is pretty much all of them. Across use cases, we've observed a four-step process. Enterprise businesses gather massive amounts of data by using a portfolio of SaaS apps. They then store that data in the cloud by using a data warehouse or data lake, using data governance to keep data compliant and secure.