Post by Eörs Babóczky

🚀 Turning unstructured data into AI‑ready intelligence at Microsoft 🚀 Unstructured data is one of the biggest blockers to realizing value from AI, and it’s a challenge we’re actively solving inside Microsoft. At Microsoft, we’re applying these practices internally to condition massive volumes of unstructured data so it’s more discoverable, governable, and ready for AI-driven applications. This is helping our teams move faster, reduce risk, and unlock real business value from our data. What we cover in this Inside Track story: 📁 Why unstructured data is uniquely hard , and why AI raises the stakes 🧹 How we’re conditioning data for AI ingestion without disrupting business workflows 🔐 How governance and security stay built‑in, not bolted on ⚙️ Lessons learned from putting these practices into action at Microsoft 💡 The impact at Microsoft: Our teams featured in this story are actively helping Microsoft bring order to fragmented data environments, improve data quality for AI use cases, and establish scalable governance foundations that support both innovation and compliance. The result: teams can confidently use AI on their data, while IT retains control, visibility, and trust. If you’re figuring out how to make your organization’s data AI‑ready—without creating chaos or risk—this story breaks down what’s working for us and what we’ve learned along the way. 👉 Read the full story: https://msft.it/6042QApw0 #MicrosoftDigital #CustomerZero #UnstructuredData #Data #AI #MicrosoftPurview