Despite the strategic importance of both software development and the data produced by the resulting systems, software development remains costly and risky. 70% of software development efforts fail, with 17% failing so badly they risk the survival of the company. Two major factors of this problem are: 1. Software development resources are scarce and expensive, yet these resources are often wasted during development on building the wrong thing, or on implementing the repetitive and low-value aspects of the right thing. 2. The data stored by these systems is of low value outside of that system’s own context, creating a mismatch for integration with other systems or for use in analysis, machine learning and AI, auditing and compliance, Read more