Quest Software: Charting a Course Through AI’s Data Trust Cr

Quest Software is known as a leader in data management and identity security and is bullish on its approach: it can fix what's breaking enterprise AI. The company, which provides data management, cybersecurity and platform modernisation tools to global enterprises, has launched the Quest Trusted Data Management Platform, a unified data management platform designed to address a stark reality in the tech space.

Recent studies, including research from MIT, show that 95% of Gen AI initiatives fail to deliver value. Michael Laudon, Chief Product and Technology Officer at Quest, identifies the root cause not in the models themselves, but in the plumbing beneath them. And, in the era of AI with every company rushing to make the technology work for them, Quest is finding itself in the right place at the right time helping customers realize the promise of AI by helping them deliver trusted data.

Michael says: “The success of AI is only as good as the quality of its data and the trustworthiness of the data behind it. I have the luxury of speaking regularly with other technology leaders who are building today’s leading LLMs. The one common theme they express is that these models are only as good as the data they’re trained on. They have been living the saying “poor data leads to poor AI outcomes.”  What sets us apart is our ability to deliver trusted, secure, and governed AI-ready data at the speed and scale to produce better results.”

Quest has built expertise managing mission-critical data, what Bharath Vasudevan, Vice President of Product for Quest’s data division, calls the “crown jewels” of the world’s largest organisations. Now, Bharath says, it is applying that knowledge to solve a “people, process and tools nightmare” facing Chief Data Officers (CDOs) today.