Maximizing database efficiency: optimization, AI readiness and cost
Three pressures usually arrive at once: an environment that needs tuning, a business asking what it would take to use AI, and a budget that is not growing to cover either. Angela Henry and Frank Gill treat them as one problem, because in most estates they are.
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What the session covers
- What being AI-ready actually requires. The foundational steps, from infrastructure alignment through to a data strategy, and the order they have to happen in.
- Data governance that is worth having. Building a framework that protects the data and makes it usable for a decision, rather than one that only satisfies an audit.
- Efficiency through better processing. Where modern data processing genuinely reduces latency and improves throughput, and what it takes to adopt.
- Cost reduction that is not a cut. Automating processes and removing the inefficiencies that waste resource, which is a different exercise from spending less.
- What holds up for the next few years. Making the infrastructure decisions now that do not have to be revisited the moment the AI question becomes concrete.
Who it is for
Anyone asked about AI without a budget increase
The session's whole framing is that readiness, efficiency and cost are the same program, which is the position most teams are actually in.
Teams starting a governance program
A significant part of the discussion is what a governance framework has to do to be worth the effort of running it.
After the session
Score your own readiness
The session describes what AI readiness requires. The question it leaves is where a given estate currently sits against that, and which of the four foundations is the one holding everything else up.
That is a short exercise rather than an engagement, and it runs in the browser.
- AI readiness assessment. Ten questions and a score, with no account and nothing run against your environment.
- Database health check. The efficiency half, measured rather than estimated.
- More sessions. Every recorded webinar, all free and all published in full.
Three problems, one foundation
Tuning, readiness and cost all come back to knowing what the estate is doing and whether the data in it can be relied on. An assessment answers that once and the three questions get easier together.
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