India, July 13 -- If you are currently in the market for almost any kind of enterprise software, you will almost certainly run across at least one vendor claiming that its product includes artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities. Of course, some of these claims are no more than marketing hyperbole, or "AI washing." However, in many cases, software makers truly are integrating new capabilities related to analytics, vision, natural language, or other areas that deserve the AI label.

The market researchers at IDC have gone so far as to call AI "inescapable." According to the firm, "By 2025, at least 90% of new enterprise apps will embed artificial intelligence."

Similarly, Omdia | Tractica predicted that worldwide revenue from AI softwar...