Artificial intelligence (AI) is sweeping into every industry this year powering trailblazing opportunities for software vendors and their partners. Forrester predicts investments in AI will triple in 2017, and IDC totals spending on cognitive systems at over $31 billion in just two years. I was at SAP TechEd 2016 in Barcelona when SAP announced its Application Intelligence Partner Program, which fast-tracks partners that add intelligence to SAP applications or additional AI platform capabilities. One noteworthy trailblazer is NVIDIA. Originally acclaimed for its unparalleled computer graphics capabilities, NVIDIA has repositioned itself as "the artificial intelligence company."