Precisely has launched its AI Readiness Assessment, which it is offering as a service to customers. The decision to offer it as a service, rather than a product, is interesting. It shows the complexity of preparing to get the most out of AI. It also marks Precisely out from other data management vendors as the only company to offer such a service.
David Woods, SVP Global Services at Precisely, said, “AI readiness is not only about data maturity, but creating a repeatable framework for AI innovation. The Precisely AI Readiness Assessment empowers our customers to move faster – with clarity and confidence, while establishing processes and organisational change management to successfully scale their AI initiatives.
“We are at a time when AI, particularly agentic AI, is reshaping markets and commanding boardroom attention, and Precisely is helping customers close the gap between aspiration and execution with strategic precision.”
What will the assessment include?
The AI Readiness Assessment is about reviewing the whole data management environment inside an enterprise. It will take six weeks to identify and provide an action plan for the five challenges that Precisely has identified. They are:
- Data maturity evaluation: Pinpoints key gaps in data reliability focused on availability, accessibility, quality, enrichment, observability, and governance
- AI alignment & use case validation: Ensures business priorities and AI efforts are connected from the start to deliver intended value
- Governance for AI: Identifies data best practices that address compliance, ethics, scale, and trust
- Organisational change management: Outlines leading practices to ensure teams are aligned and accountable
- AI roadmap & strategic next steps: Delivers an actionable plan to accelerate AI success
Importantly, each of these is about executive actions, not about day-to-day data administration. That is why this is an assessment rather than a product, where organisations can self-assess. Equally important is that this will only have significant value for organisations that buy into the goal of the assessment.
The development of this assessment does not come in isolation. Precisely has significantly boosted its products to support AI. Among its announcements this week at Trust ’25, it has announced its AI Vision Ecosystem, updates to its Data Integrity Suite, and greater AI-driven automation. All of these provide practical components that can be deployed.
However, having the tools is pointless if the organisation does not have a valid roadmap supported by management. That roadmap must also include a route to AI and data observability, and a route to AI maturity. The latter is an area of weakness for many organisations, something that was evident in a recent Precisely/BARC report.
Enterprise Times: What does this mean?
Precisely is now all in on AI, from its tooling to its data sets and now its professional services. This is a major shift for the company and one that it is well placed to execute. It’s also not an unexpected shift given the results of its 2024 and 2025 LeBow reports and the BARC report on observability. It’s clear that the company has looked at all three and used the results to shape its product strategy and delivery.
While we are seeing companies pile in on AI, there is also a growing amount of buyer’s remorse. Those that have cut employee numbers are regretting the loss of subject matter expertise. They are also realising that the foundation on which they have built their AI strategy is also significantly flawed. Those flows revolve around strategy, data quality/readiness and observability.
There is also a need for greater need for the board to engage with the move to AI outside of seeing reduced costs. Those will come, but so will the increased risk of failure. This is where data and AI observability and maturity are key.
Importantly, this is where Precisely sees a significant business opportunity that it believes it is uniquely positioned to take advantage of. It will be interesting to see how this year plays out with future product capabilities and even acquisition strategy.
