India, Dec. 15 -- India's technology leaders are largely aligned on one message: artificial intelligence will not deliver real business impact without fixing the data underneath. According to Salesforce's latest State of Data and Analytics report, 89% of data and analytics leaders in India believe their organisations must modernise data strategies to make AI work at scale.

The finding comes at a time when expectations from data teams are rising fast. Around 75% of business leaders say they face growing pressure to extract business value from data. Yet the report shows a clear disconnect between ambition and execution, driven by incomplete, outdated, and poor-quality data. As companies move into what Salesforce calls the "agentic AI era,"...