Summary

In this chapter, we looked at 14 factors that are important in deciding what kind of AI feature to use. By going through these, you will avoid the common pitfalls that haunt many AI feature implementations and ensure that you get to the right solution for your organization.

We saw that factors will often point in different directions. For instance, you may have very detailed and complex user requirements coupled with hard compliance requirements pointing toward a custom code-based solution built on a cloud platform. However, you may not have the necessary skills to implement this, nor the requirements to be able to realize value cannot be met with a custom solution that takes all requirements into account.

While that can be dispiriting if you are an architect, that is your job. You need to make the difficult trade-offs between competing technical and business considerations that result in a solution that is, if not perfect, at least adequate to the needs of your organization...