India, Nov. 10 -- Nearly half of surveyed enterprises in Asia Pacific are behind on their modernisation goals, even as artificial intelligence (AI) creates new demands on their applications, infrastructure, and operating models.

Regional findings from Kyndryl's Modernization Report, shared exclusively with Dataquest, show that 49% of APAC organisations are behind schedule, compared with 48% globally. Meanwhile, 41% of APAC respondents rate predicting, tracking, and controlling the cost of AI workloads in cloud environments as very or extremely challenging. The global figure is 46%.

The findings point to a practical tension for CIOs. Enterprises need to prepare their systems for AI while maintaining existing operations, controlling expen...