India, June 1 -- For much of enterprise technology history, data was treated as something to be stored, processed, secured, and analysed. The cloud changed where data lived. Enterprise resource planning (ERP), customer relationship management (CRM), and analytics platforms changed how organisations used it. But artificial intelligence (AI), especially agentic AI, is now forcing a deeper question - do enterprises really understand their own data well enough to let machines act on it?

That question sits at the heart of this conversation with Ole Olesen-Bagneux, VP and Chief Evangelist at Actian (an HCLSoftware division). Olesen-Bagneux is widely known in the global data community for his work on metadata management and enterprise data arch...