Survey Surfaces ROI Challenges Organizations Face After Investing in AI
Techstrong.ai, Thursday, October 15th, 2026
68% call their AI adoption mature, yet only 28% can quantify ROI, and few have unstructured data ready for AI.
Mike Vizard reports on a Komprise survey of 500 technical decision makers, in which 68% say their AI adoption is maturing or mature but only 28% can quantify ROI, most often in customer service (38%).
Data readiness is the main obstacle, with only 4% having more than 70% of unstructured data ready for lakehouse analysis and only 7% having most data cleaned and classified for AI.
Nearly half struggle to find the right data and clear redundant, obsolete and trivial files, and 46% want to query data in place rather than centralize it.
AI is forcing organizations to address long-standing data management problems.