Artificial intelligence promises transformative benefits for enterprise resource planning systems, but organizations must carefully weigh the potential costs to data ownership and confidentiality. What rights are companies surrendering when they integrate AI functionality into their ERP platforms, and who ultimately controls the sensitive business and customer information flowing through these systems? Understanding these critical trade-offs between innovation and data security is essential for any organiza
AI is one of the few technologies I have seen in my career that will live up to the hype.
It goes without saying that using AI for the sake of AI makes no sense.
You must have a business case for it.
But what is the cost?
What rights are you giving up in your data in exchange for utilizing AI functionality in the context of your ERP system?
Who owns not only your data, but your customer’s data that is input into the ERP system? Are you putting confidential information at risk?
Are you losing trade secrets?
Who can use the data you put into the AI tool?
I discuss these issues in my latest video
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