KUALA LUMPUR, April 16 -- Most organisations still lack the data foundation needed for success despite growing adoption of artificial intelligence (AI), according to Cloudera's latest global survey examining enterprise readiness to support AI at scale.

The findings highlight that while 96 per cent of organisations report integrating AI into core business processes and 85 per cent say they have a clear data strategy, nearly four out of five (around 80 per cent) admit their AI and data initiatives are still constrained by limited data access across environments.

This gap highlights an emerging "AI readiness illusion" - the belief that organisations are prepared to scale AI even as critical data challenges remain unresolved, according to C...