Category: Rodin

IT firms never had to confront the question of technology, with their worlds largely revolving around application software. Until now. In an era of proliferating software, including apps, the big IT service companies built a huge business out of system integration. Now for the first time they need to confront technology/technologies but their trajectory or trajectories. It is anybody’s guess which path they will traverse.

Model development was always a challenge in any subject but is more so in an area where abstraction is the foundational attribute: AI. I have written earlier also that abstraction is the first step to building great software and especially in AI, because AI works on abstraction, which depends on mathematics of the highest level. Most people will say data but what they forget is that the model needs data and vast amounts of it, precisely because it has to abstract from it so as to work effectively whatever be the data. The model abstracts from the data so that it can work on any data! This is the crux of any model.

A superior technology such as AI cannot wash away the sins of poor implementation which inevitably results in poor data quality and as source data to AI. Will this poor quality of data not escalate problems with the embedding of AI in an ERP software? Analytics, the darling of consultants for over a decade, could well become an unmitigated disaster. It is firmly established that poor data quality alone remains one of the principal causes of failures in the efficient use of AI systems. Interestingly, the database as the OS, an idea articulated by Professor Michael Stonebraker, could be the opening to a new way of looking