The EDM Association’s 2026 Global Data Management Benchmark Report states that organizations including financial institutions are increasing investment in artificial intelligence while failing to build the necessary data and governance foundations.
The findings are based on a survey of more than 435 organizations across more than 50 countries. President of the EDM Association John Bottega said AI is becoming a stress test for enterprise data.The study
indicates that 31 per cent of surveyed organizations report advanced data strategy capabilities and 19 per cent demonstrate mature adoption of analytics. The organisation also launched a benchmark repository and dashboard, following previous benchmark studies aligned to its data management capability assessment model framework.
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