Going into 2027, prioritise the unglamorous things. Get your foundations clean, agree your definitions, know what your estate costs to run, and keep your data in open formats. Do that, and whatever actually arrives next year, you are ready to use it.
For a deeper look, see our guide to The Data Engineering Layer That Decides Everything.
Trust matters more as AI spreads because, as more decisions lean on automated answers, the question changes from can we get the number to can we believe it. Lineage, agreed definitions and the ability to trace a figure back to source stop being box-ticking and become the thing that lets you use AI at all.
We go into this further in The Data Engineering Layer That Decides Everything.
No. AI raises the value of good foundations rather than replacing them. The teams that win are the ones whose data is clean and well modelled enough that the AI gives a right answer instead of a confident wrong one.
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