I am a finance guy in middle management at a large Fortune 50. Our senior leadership is pushing all departments to “leverage AI”. We have access to MS Copilot and an internal Chat GPT 5 tool that works well. The direct report of our CFO to who I report is eager to get going with AI, too.
Our finance data lives in a data lake and visibility towards what data we have (beyond own domain) is nil, no public library exists. The data lake operators use Spotfire web view tools to make data available. So with anemic access to the wide dataset, leveraging AI is cut off at the knees.
I am waiting for API end points into the data lake before we can leverage AI truly. In the interim training my team using the internal AI tool on SQL and Python (pandas) to automate day to day excel mangling.
What else can I do? Eager to move but without good and open data, AI will fail at my company?
Thanks for your ideas