AI readiness problem

80%

of AI projects never reach production

RAND Corporation, 2024

Projects fail when data meaning and ontology are not clear, the required data is unavailable, or quality data infrastructure and platforms are simply not there. RAND reports that more than 80% of AI initiatives fail and identifies data availability and data infrastructure among the leading causes.

$547B

wasted on failed AI initiatives in 2025

Pertama Partners, 2026

Individual AI apps get deployed without clear impact measurements and often without measuring the impact itself. Systematic data deduplication, anomaly detection, and intelligent outlier management that preserves analytical value while eliminating noise are ignored, leading to disappointment with AI initiatives.

72%

of enterprise RAG implementations fail in year 1

Source: Gartner, 2026

RAG implementations built without enterprise-scale experience, permission management, domain-specific vector stores, hybrid search, and evaluation frameworks in place are likely to fail.

85%

of companies miss AI cost forecasts by >10%

Mavvrik Research, 2025

Many businesses rely on their own R&D and do not account for the industry’s already accumulated experience in AI implementation planning and business-case design. As a result, they underestimate implementation costs and miss their forecasts. The use of AI co-financing initiatives across small and medium-sized firms remains low.

Four steps from AI readiness to production scale

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Assess AI & data readiness

  • AI vision & use-case fit
  • Data, ontology & architecture
  • Governance & operations
  • Impact measurement

Our AI Center of Excellence runs a 2-day to 2-week diagnostic across use-case fit, data availability, ontology, architecture, governance, operations, and impact measurement, drawing on experience from 100+ client AI journeys in different industries.

You get: an executive-level readiness scorecard, target architecture, impact measurement framework, and prioritized engineering backlog.

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Put a use case into production

  • Data onboarding & enrichment
  • Governance & data quality
  • Models, agents & pipelines
  • Monitoring, lineage & controls

Backed by findings from the previous stage, we take one or several AI cases into 360-degree production, onboarding data through ontology mining and enrichment, adjusting the AI initiative and data governance, and deploying models, tooling, agents, and data pipelines.

You get: a governed, monitored data pipeline serving a defined model, assistant, or agent.

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Scale what works

  • Reusable pipelines & data products
  • Shared ontology & semantics
  • Standardized governance
  • Scalable AI sovereignty

Building on what worked, we standardize, repeat, and scale it into reusable data capabilities for further AI initiatives while complementing data with organizational context to reduce hallucinations, adding the necessary harness, and introducing scalable AI sovereignty.

You get: a scalable foundation that accelerates new initiatives and improves reliability across AI systems.

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Operate and transfer ownership

  • AIOps & observability
  • Automated refresh & deployment
  • Quality, drift, cost & reliability
  • Knowledge & ownership transfer

We create reusable pipeline templates, optimize the data serving layer, and establish AIOps for automated monitoring, deployment, and cost control. Through paired delivery and structured knowledge transfer, your team progressively takes ownership.

You get: an operational AI data foundation your internal team can manage, optimize, and extend independently.

360-degree AI-ready data by Sigma Software

Accelerated data onboarding

Data exploration, mapping, ontology enrichment, and AI pipeline generation

We accelerate access to AI-ready data, automating discovery, source mapping, ontology mining, enrichment, and pipeline generation so models, assistants, and agents reach reliable, contextualized data faster.

Platform acceleration

Co-financing, platform expertise, and architecture advice

Through our partnerships with Databricks, Snowflake, AWS, and Microsoft, customers gain specialized platform expertise, technical enablement, and access to eligible co-financing or cloud-credit programs.

Confidential AI infrastructure

Confidential computing patterns for sensitive data and AI workloads

We protect sensitive data and models during processing through hardware-backed isolation, encryption in use, controlled model access, private inference, and auditable data flows.

Sovereign AI infrastructure

Sovereign cloud, open-core, federated, and open-source data platforms

We keep data, models, infrastructure, and operations within required jurisdictions and under customer control, while reducing vendor dependency.

As a part of UpCloud, STACKIT, Open Telekom Cloud, and the Gaia-X ecosystem, we combine European cloud infrastructure with open-source and open-core platforms, customer-managed keys, federated architectures, and workload portability.

Selected reference cases

Multimodal data platform for large-scale research

Multimodal data platform for large-scale research

  • 100 years’ worth of video data streamlined for analysis
  • 300% faster historical processing for one core algorithm
  • Nearly 50% lower storage costs

Sigma Software optimized a cloud platform used for processing and governance of extensive video and research datasets for large-scale naturalistic research project. The new solution streamlined datasets ingestion, improved parsing and labeling of collected video data, and ensured stronger monitoring, rollback processes, storage protection (incl. secure third-party data handling), and cross-region replication.

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Near-real-time analytics for Aol.

Near-real-time analytics at enterprise scale

  • Data latency reduced from 2 hours to 5 minutes
  • 2.5M+ events processed per second
  • Used by 30K+ companies globally

Sigma Software redesigned the data platform behind a global advertising solution after its acquisition by Verizon Media. The architecture our team delivered processes more than 2.5 million events per second while supporting more than 30,000 companies worldwide.

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Agentic intelligence for global advertising operations

Agentic intelligence for global advertising operations

  • Up to 40% improvement in campaign performance and analytical insight
  • AI embedded into daily operational decisions

Sigma Software built a multi-agent architecture with approximately ten specialized agents operating under one orchestrator. AI recommendations, conversational insights, and anomaly detection are embedded into campaign workflows rather than delivered as standalone tools.

Uniting connected devices through a governed data layer

10,000+ connected devices unified through a governed data layer

  • 20-40% faster root-cause diagnostics
  • 10-25% fewer unplanned service events
  • Earlier detection and proactive service planning

Sigma Software is helping a regulated enterprise move from fragmented telemetry to a governed data fabric for predictive maintenance, service diagnostics, and quality monitoring. We unified sensor signals, logs, calibration records, images, and environmental context through a semantic layer with active metadata, lineage, and governed real-time access.

Tell us what your AI needs to do. We'll help identify what the data layer has to support.

Why clients choose Sigma Software to build AI-ready data foundations

One team across the full data-to-AI path

Our capabilities span source integration, data engineering, semantics, AI and ML, cloud infrastructure, security, application integration, and production operations. You don’t have to coordinate separate data, AI, security, and software vendors around the same enterprise data dependency.

Broad platform reach, backed by deep expertise

We work across Snowflake, Databricks, AWS, Azure, GCP, hybrid environments, and open technologies. Our team leverages this diversity to choose the architecture that best fits your data estate, AI consumers, regulatory obligations, and long-term platform strategy.

Context modeling for enterprise data

We build semantic models, domain context, and governed data products so that models and agents work with the language of the business rather than raw schemas and disconnected document collections.

Production engineering with seamless transfer

We create a capability your organization can operate and extend. Our delivery approach includes observability, runbooks, shared repositories, paired engineering, and structured handover.

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    Broader Sigma Software capabilities around AI-ready data

    Data Engineering Services

    Not every data challenge starts with AI. For broader platform modernization, pipeline development, analytics enablement, and reusable data products, explore Sigma Software’s wider data engineering services.

    Cloud & Infrastructure

    Design and operate cloud environments that support production AI workloads, secure data access, and scalable data processing.

    Regulatory Compliance Consulting

    Turn regulatory requirements into engineering controls across data, AI, cloud, and software systems.

    Sovereign AI Governance Platform

    Control which models process your data and where AI requests run, with policy enforcement, cost visibility and audit logs across approved environments.

    Snowflake Consulting

    Prepare your enterprise data to support AI initiatives across your organization with a reliable Snowflake-powered data foundation.

    Legacy Migration & Modernization

    Transform legacy systems into a unified platform where AI can scale across products, operations, and teams to support informed decision-making.
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