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The technology is ready. The strategy is funded. The data underneath it is not.   That one sentence kept surfacing in different forms across every conversation our team had at Info-Tech LIVE 2026 in Las Vegas today.   And it tells you everything about where enterprise IT leadership actually is right now beneath the confident roadmaps and the ambitious AI announcements.   Day 2 at the Bellagio was where the real work happened. Not in the keynotes. In the spaces between them. The booth conversations that started with a polite question and turned into a forty-five minute working session about what data readiness actually looks like inside a live SAP environment. The CIOs who came back for a second conversation because something from Day 1 had not left them alone overnight. The #DigitalTransformation leaders who admitted quietly that their agentic AI timeline and their data governance timeline are not currently in the same room.   These are not fringe concerns. This is the mainstream of IT leadership in 2026.   And here is what makes PiLog's position in this room genuinely unique. The organisation running this event, Info-Tech Research Group, whose analysts have been on that stage for two days, independently named PiLog Group Gold Medalist in #MasterDataManagement and #DataQualityManagement for both 2024 and 2025. That validation did not come from us. It came from the customers who use our platform every single day.   In a room full of vendors making promises, that is a different kind of credential.   Three days. Thousands of IT leaders. Hundreds of conversations. And one consistent signal from the floor that the enterprises ready to win the next five years are not the ones with the biggest AI budgets. They are the ones who fixed their data foundation first.   That is the work PiLog has been doing for 30 years. And this week in Las Vegas it felt more relevant than ever.   What is stopping your organisation from fixing its data foundation before the next major technology investment goes live? Drop it below.   Dr Imad Syed Tracy A. Bennett, MBA, CMA Salomon de Jager Gideon Huisamen Fouad Al Mawla Shashi Bellamkonda Tom Zehren SoftwareReviews #InfoTechLIVE #DataGovernance #AgenticAI #PiLog