Shylaja Nathan
Principal Analyst
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SAP Is Targeting The AI Data Control Plane
As enterprises move from copilots to agentic AI, they are no longer constrained by model selection; rather, they are limited by governed activation of business data. SAP’s planned acquisitions of Dremio and Prior Labs signal an effort to position SAP Business Data Cloud (BDC) as an AI data control plane. With these arrows in the […]
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SAP’s Reltio Acquisition Forces A Choice For CIOs
The SAP-Reltio Deal Is About Who Controls Your Future Architecture We have seen a lot of M&A activity trying to capitalize on AI hype. SAP’s acquisition of Reltio isn’t that. Instead, the acquisition is a strategic, pragmatic shot by SAP to own the master data layer and make the future enterprise architecture more interoperable, particularly […]
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Architecting Data And AI In The Era Of Enterprise Intelligence: Meet Shylaja Nathan, Principal Analyst
Across industries, competitive advantage increasingly depends on an organization’s ability to apply AI to decisions, operations, and customer experiences. As enterprises adopt more autonomous and context-aware systems, data architectures built over decades are proving insufficient. Agentic AI requires data environments that deliver context, responsiveness, and semantic consistency at scale. At Forrester, my research focuses on […]