Menlo Ventures surveyed roughly 500 U.S. enterprise decision-makers in 2025 and found that 76% of enterprise AI use cases are now purchased rather than built internally, up from 53% purchased the year before. The market has swung hard toward buying. That makes the case for a custom harness a much narrower one than it was […]
Key Takeaways As AI adoption scales, access to qualified AI talent is becoming a strategic constraint The global AI talent map is shifting, with emerging markets rapidly expanding their talent pools Africa is building its AI capabilities, with Egypt and Morocco emerging as relevant markets for AI teams Egypt offers talent scale, competitive costs and […]
Every AI agent conversation in 2026 eventually collapses into a formula: Agent equals Model plus Harness. Databricks put it plainly in its own engineering research: most operational agent failures trace back to the harness, not the model underneath it. Almost everything written about AI harnesses so far is aimed at developers building one. Almost nothing […]
Key Takeaways Saudi Arabia has moved beyond AI funding, with the foundations needed to turn investment into AI at scale The Kingdom’s digital infrastructure is already mature, reducing a major barrier to enterprise AI adoption Its data estate is increasingly catalogued, standardized, and addressable, shifting the challenge from finding data to making it fit for […]
Ask five research firms for the AI adoption rate and you get five different numbers, but the gap that matters is inside a single survey. McKinsey’s 2025 State of AI found 88% of organizations use AI in at least one business function, yet only 6% report significant enterprise-wide impact from it. MIT’s Project NANDA went […]
Key Takeaways Clean data is only the starting point for AI readiness The biggest data gap may be information you never collected Data can be accurate and complete yet still be unusable for AI The goal is not perfect data, it is fit-for-purpose data Use-case-led preparation can turn months of broad data clean-up into weeks […]
The global advanced analytics market is on track to grow from USD 97.17 billion in 2026 to USD 193.23 billion by 2031, a 14.7% compound annual growth rate (MarketsandMarkets, 2026). Spending is not the bottleneck. Gartner estimated in 2019 that through 2022, only 20% of analytic insights would deliver measurable business outcomes, and the ratio […]
Gartner’s 2026 CIO and Technology Executive Survey polled 2,501 IT leaders and found that enterprise architecture teams are now judged less on documentation and more on one question: can the function prove its value while governing AI at scale (Gartner, 2025)? That shift matters because most explanations of enterprise architecture still treat it as a […]
Key Takeaways The Gulf has closed the AI adoption gap and is scaling faster than global peers Very few organizations can attribute earnings to AI, despite widespread adoption Strategy and funding are not the constraint, with most reporting strong leadership backing and a well-funded roadmap The organizations capturing value share four characteristics, none of them […]
80% of enterprise applications shipped or updated in Q1 2026 embed at least one AI agent, yet only 31% of organizations have an agent running in production (Gartner, 2026; S&P Global, 2026). That gap is the defining problem of agentic AI: embedding the agent is easy, getting it to execute real work without breaking is […]
