Without unrestricted access to a ton of data, AI can’t possibly live up to its promises — either real or imagined. Unfortunately, companies are adopting more and more disparate systems, and it’s not helping that stack vendors are continually adding more disconnected tools to their productivity suites, and emerging conversational apps are siloing information in ever-narrower message threads. Companies need their technology vendors to provide open APIs and connected hub solutions in order to make sure valuable data won’t get locked inside niche tools and to ensure that the “signal” doesn’t get lost in a clamor of extraneous noise.

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