Forbes December 28, 2025
The cognitive industrial revolution, an emerging era where thinking machines increasingly augment humans, is not only being powered by data, but is also a producer of data at scale. Leaders are quickly recognizing that this data-driven transformation is redefining how decisions are made and creating new ways of designing, building, and delivering products and services.
As a result, understanding the scale and complexity of data challenges that accompany this revolution has become a priority. Today, handling massive volumes of potentially sensitive data is riskier and the opportunities for making mistakes, or abuse, intentional or not, are greater than ever.
Organizations face ongoing and difficult choices related to data management and governance, and while rules and regulations provide valuable guidance, novel...







