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Drone programs have already proven their value as a data collection tool across construction, agriculture, energy, and infrastructure. The next frontier is making that data work harder.

In this week’s real-time analytics news: The Google Cloud Next conference produced many partner announcements.

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In this week’s real-time analytics news: Qlik introduced a sovereign AI initiative and an expansion of its trust and governance capabilities for AI.

Running AI experiments as ventures, such as distinct, startup-like entities with their own mandates, teams, and freedom to imagine, is one of the few mechanisms that gives a scaled company a real shot at genuinely new thinking.

Organizations that treat AI as a standalone initiative see incremental results. Those that treat it as a data architecture transformation, however, unlock sustained performance improvements.

Drone programs have already proven their value as a data collection tool across construction, agriculture, energy, and infrastructure. The next frontier is making that data work harder.

For AI to work in production, models are not enough. Systems need access to current, external information that can be used directly in decision-making.