Ambitious businesses are already eyeing the next leap forward in AI technology fuelled by the growing imperative to deliver business success driven by digital innovation.
AI investment is growing at 29% Compound Annual Growth Rate and will hit $632bn by 2028, with almost a third of this being invested in GenAI projects.[1]
The next horizon for savvy enterprises seeking to automate at hitherto unseen levels of scale in 2025 is agentic AI. This will, for example, mean chatbots that don’t just answer a customer’s question, but add value by interacting with other systems and data sources to make informed recommendations.
Business forging ahead are likely to be cleverly utilising external expertise. Dell says its AI Factory with NVIDIA reduces the time for AI adoption by up to 86% compared to relying on solely internal expertise.[2]
Moreover, Dell itself has been able to drive clear enterprise value through its own AI transformation, learning vital lessons that it can share.
This need for help is underlined by the fact that CIOs are undoubtedly facing some challenges as they seek to advance their AI transformation.
Where are you starting from?
These challenges include confused data strategies, difficulty building secure data pipelines, and hardware approaches that don’t integrate or scale, as a recent CIO webcast with experts from Dell and NVIDIA highlighted.
But equally critical is the lack of a focused strategy or business case.
All of this will combine to undermine your AI strategy and leave you stuck in unsuccessful experimentation mode. This may be the reality for many , but it is not inevitable.
How to plot a path forward
Successful AI implementation, particularly when it comes to agentic AI, is a journey.
“It’s about picking those areas that are more valuable to you as a business,” explained Peter Hubbard, NVIDIA alliance director for EMEA.
But once the priorities have been settled, you must think carefully about how to build a secure, efficient pipeline, that ensures data is clean, up to date, and in the right place.
As Dell Technologies Regional Director for AI Portfolio Marketing Ihab El Ghazzawi said, “the aim is to bring AI to your data, not bring data to your AI.”
It’s perfectly possible to start your AI journey with a single GPU workstation. But keeping a full stack strategy in mind, Hubbard explained, ensures that your underlying architecture can scale as your projects grow.
“It’s about every component working together. If you don’t invest in your infrastructure, then the whole environment will suffer.”
How Dell and NVIDIA Help
That is the kind of approach Dell took itself. Its AI committee assessed hundreds of potential use cases to identify those that could deliver real ROI improvement in key business areas.
“We decided that we were going to aim for a 40% increase in productivity and efficiency in those,” Dell’s El Ghazzawi revealed. And that was achieved.
Enterprises can benefit from this experience with the Dell AI Factory with NVIDIA, which focuses on key use cases, such as content creation, digital twins, and digital assistants.
This easy to adopt AI solution offers hardware, software, models, blueprints, networking and services – everything to get organisations up and running quickly – on a platform that scales up smoothly to deliver real benefits as projects move into production.
Every organisation is different, but by utilising the Dell Services team for an AI Strategy workshop, organisations can tap into proven expertise to help build out their own custom AI strategy.
Conclusion
Success in AI doesn’t mean starting big from the outset. But it does require a clear strategy to get from where you are to going big with experienced partners that can help you on your way.
Progress your AI journey by watching the full CIO webcast.
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[1] IDC, IDC Media Centre, Artificial Intelligence Infrastructure Spending to Surpass the $200Bn USD Mark in the Next 5 years, According to IDC, https://www.idc.com/getdoc.jsp?containerId=prUS52758624
[2] Bloomberg (sponsored), How AI factories accelerate AI adoption and implementation — and RoI , November 2024 https://sponsored.bloomberg.com/quicksight/dell-nvidia/how-ai-factories-accelerate-ai-adoption-and-implementation-and-roi
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