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Digital transformation #mindcandy 13 June 2025
The topics are data savings accounts, messy transformation, data readiness, edge AI, vibe coding, APIs, no code robots, data intelligence, and industrial AI.
Government-backed savings accounts could let Brazilians profit from their digital data
Brazil’s public IT company Dataprev has partnered with DrumWave to create individual data savings accounts that let citizens control and monetize their digital data.
What I learned from a messy billion-dollar digital transformation
Real digital transformation isn’t about flashy tech, but about fixing foundational processes and aligning people to navigate organizational complexity.
AI Adoption Races Ahead Without Data Readiness
https://www.rtinsights.com/ai-adoption-races-ahead-without-data-readiness/
How enterprises are accelerating AI initiatives even though their data management practices might be lagging in terms of quality, integration, tools, metadata, and catalogs. Informatica seeks to stay ahead of them.
Edge AI Is Having a Moment
https://www.clouddatainsights.com/edge-ai-is-having-a-moment/
As AI adoption spreads across industries, organizations are reevaluating where and how AI workloads should run. For an increasing number of use cases, the answer is not a centralized cloud environment. It is the edge.
The enterprise is not ready for vibe coding — yet
https://www.ciodive.com/news/vibe-coding-enterprise-CIO-strategy/750349/
CIOs are familiar with AI-based approaches to software and application development, but it’s a field that keeps growing.
Your AI Strategy Starts with APIs: Building the Foundations for Tomorrow’s Intelligent Enterprise
Most organizations aren’t ready to fully embrace AI not because they lack access to models, but because their systems, processes, and mindset aren’t built for it. At the heart of this readiness challenge lies something deceptively simple: APIs.
No-Code Robots and the Rise of Generative Automation
Generative AI is transforming robotics from code-heavy systems into intuitive tools, enabling non-experts to program complex tasks and unlocking massive gains in automation, productivity, and adaptability.
Iceberg and the future of data intelligence
https://siliconangle.com/2025/06/09/iceberg-future-data-intelligence/
As data becomes the lifeblood of modern enterprises, the expectations placed on data platforms are evolving at an unprecedented pace. No longer confined to powering dashboards or historical reports, today’s data ecosystems must fuel real-time decision-making, intelligent applications and AI agents that continuously learn and adapt.
How Data Management Tools Can Help Unpack The Unique Link Between Data And Industrial AI
In most conversations, data and AI are inextricably linked. The narrative tends to be that organizations are not using AI well if they don’t have quality data from the field feeding into AI models.
You are the upgrade
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Data, acceleration, and the future of intelligence: Lessons from 25 core books (and links to 114 other books) about AI, technology abstraction, and consciousness.
