Susan Laine, Chief Technologist and Data Thought Leader, Quest Software

Susan Laine helps clients prepare for the rapidly growing field of data readiness at Quest Software. Her work is focused on inspiring insightful outcomes with data, increasing data maturity, and providing value using software solutions such as data catalogs and business glossaries.

Articles by Susan Laine, Chief Technologist and Data Thought Leader, Quest Software

Trust, Certify, Scale: A Smarter Path to AI Readiness

As organizations race to adopt AI, many struggle to move past proof of concept. Gartner predicts that 30% of generative AI (GenAI) projects will be abandoned by the end of 2025 largely due to issues around data readiness, governance, and deployment structure, so let's start there. In fact, as Gartner puts it: "Through 2026, those organizations that don't enable and support their AI use cases through an AI-ready data practice will see over 60% of AI projects fail to deliver on business SLAs and be abandoned." That's a wake-up call.

Posted October 09, 2025