Are desktops a data gold mine?

As enterprises have rushed to the cloud, data lakes and lakehouses have been at the top of CIO’s agendas. In this move, arguably the most valuable source of data has been overlooked-that sitting on users’ desktops in spreadsheets, scripts and various files. This data is in fact larger in quantity than the core data in warehouses or lakes. Moreover, it is vastly better in quality. It is perfectly structured and curated by users who know the domains they manage. This goldmine is physically available to IT but has been logically inaccessible. Gen-AI can open up this untapped treasure trove