“Beyond Pipelines: The New Data Operating Model for AI at Scale” is an O’Reilly Report published in collaboration with Boomi. Part One — “From System Failure to System Future” — exposes why fragmented data environments are the single biggest barrier to agentic AI at scale, and lays out the architectural principles organizations need to build a unified, AI-ready, active data foundation.
Read Beyond Pipelines, Part One to learn:
- Why data integration work consumes over 61% of data team capacity — and how that’s blocking AI development
- How organizations with unified data foundations are launching AI-driven products 6–12 months faster than their fragmented competitors
- Why agentic AI requires a fundamental rethinking of the data foundation — and why data mesh and data fabric approaches alone aren’t enough
This is part one of a two-part report. Part Two covers the organizational and governance transformation required to make the architecture work.
An O’Reilly Report by Adam Morton, published in collaboration with Boomi, April 2026.
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