Ever hear an engine knocking? Some of the common causes of this unpleasant noise include poor quality fuel or fuel with a lower octane rating than the engine was designed to burn. Similarly, since your AI engine runs on data, you want clean, good quality data to provide smooth power to your AI use cases without the unpleasantries of inaccurate, misleading or inappropriate conclusions.
How do you best ensure good quality AI data?
Taking an End-to-End Approach to Data Quality
Just as energy companies need to look end-to-end to make sure that fuel stays clean, you need to take an end-to-end approach to data from preparation to ongoing management to make sure that the data fuel for your AI systems stays clean. One important way of assuring this is to make sure that you have good quality data at the source.
Aligning Business and AI Teams on Data Sources
Getting aligned with business stakeholders on data sources for your AI use cases is an important first step. Many businesses have well-established processes and focus for the data that feeds traditional enterprise applications, but AI systems can use this data in new ways and also use new types of data: think of unstructured data such as PDF files of customer proposals for sales or call records for customer support teams. You’ll need to get your AI and business teams on the same page for these AI data sources.
Dell’s Data Strategy Services: A Roadmap to Success
Dell Technologies recognizes the importance of data for AI and we’re now expanding our portfolio of AI professional services to include data strategy services. Our professional services experts bring your teams together to define quality, usage and protection requirements. Using our proven AS-IS/TO-BE methodology, you can make sure that your AI data strategy is aligned with your business needs, identifies relevant data sets, and applies architectural best practices. The result: a data management roadmap that aligns with the AI benefits your business stakeholders expect.
Managing AI Data with Flexibility and Control
You’ll want to manage your AI data in an open, flexible manner – making it accessible while maintaining robust controls to ensure only the right people have access. The Dell AI Data Platform provides this flexibility, while protecting data and automatically enriching it with metadata. By incorporating the open, modern Dell Data Lakehouse, Dell PowerScale storage, and integrated with the expertise of Dell Professional Services, the AI Data Platform delivers more accurate insights and enforces the requirements you just defined, allowing you to operate with confidence.
Automated Data Cleansing for Reliable AI Pipelines
Now that you have a good source of data fuel for AI, how do you make sure that the fuel is clean? In data terms, this means making sure that you’ve eliminated duplicate data, that you’ve standardized data formats, and that you’ve addressed missing data points. Fortunately, modern automated data cleansing techniques minimize the burden, enhancing pipeline operations with AI-driven, automated preprocessing for such tasks as anonymization, imputation of missing data and text standardization.
Scaling AI with Confidence and Quality Data
The result is clean, quality data running smoothly through your automated, reliable data pipelines, providing consistent, accurate, context-aware AI. And all backed by an AI-ready data strategy supported by expert guidance to enhance data availability, quality and governance. This premium data fuel allows you to confidently scale your AI use cases to production, with systematic processes for continuous data ingestion to seamlessly handle large data volumes that drive efficiency across the AI lifecycle.
Get Your AI Engine Ready for Peak Performance
Are you ready to hit the AI road and feel the wind blowing through your hair as your AI engine powered by quality data fuel glides down the highway? Ask your Dell Technologies representative how to get started with a Dell AI Accelerator Workshop or check out the Dell Technologies booth at the NVIDIA GTC conference. Our expert data mechanics are ready to get your AI engine ready for peak performance with comprehensive services for the Dell AI Factory with NVIDIA.
