Presented by John O’Brien

Moving beyond speculation to data. This keynote presents analysis and insights from our comprehensive Q1 2025 market study spanning 200+ organizations. We’ll examine how companies are actually implementing modern enterprise data architectures to support analytics and AI initiatives, revealing current adoption rates, investment patterns, and expected outcomes. Building on our 2023 study’s foundation, which tracked early investments in modern data architectures, we’ll survey the evolution of data platforms by adding vector databases, knowledge graphs, and semantic layers. The session will cut through market hype to present evidence-based results and insights on which architectural patterns—from data fabric to data lakehouse—deliver measurable value and how organizations successfully balance AI innovation with enterprise data management and governance requirements.