India, Dec. 10 -- The struggle is real, as they say, when it comes to getting machine learning into production. That was one of the big messages of 2019 as enterprises completed successful machine learning pilots but found it much more difficult to put their efforts into production let alone scale them across the whole organization.

Even though everyone seems to be working on it, machine learning deployed in production grew at a slower rate between 2018 and 2019, according to Gartner's annual CIO survey. (In 2017, 4% of organizations had deployed AI in production; in 2018, 14% had deployed to production; and in 2019, 19% had deployed to production.)

Gartner VP analyst and fellow Rita Sallam is forecasting that enterprises that may have ...