Informatica (NYSE: INFA), a leader in enterprise AI-powered cloud data management, today announced the findings of its global CDO Insights 2025 survey on the current landscape of Generative AI (GenAI) adoption, an annual study polled from global data leaders across Europe, North America and Asia Pacific regions.

The latest study found that data leaders surveyed from Australia, China, India, Japan, Korea, Malaysia and Singapore markets, are looking to increase investments in GenAI and data management this year, despite majority of the respondents facing near-term challenges to demonstrate business value and return on investment (ROI) from their AI projects.

Key findings:

“Our latest CDO study reveals that a strong majority of 92% APAC data leaders are facing pressure from C-suite to deliver quick return of investments from their current AI initiatives, but many are moving ahead to increase their GenAI investments nonetheless,” said Richard Scott, SVP for Asia Pacific & Japan at Informatica. One particular concern is attaining the readiness of their data that is required to achieve the transformative impact of AI.”

“Generative AI presents exciting opportunities for efficiency and innovation in the insurance and financial sectors, helping to accelerate digital transformation,” said David Tan, Chief Data Officer at Income Insurance, Singapore. “At Income Insurance, our approach to data and AI integrates data governance and responsible AI frameworks, achieving a strategic balance between innovation and measured oversight. To keep pace with the rapid changes driven by new technologies like GenAI, a strong foundation fosters confidence in effective cross-functional collaboration, enabling capability development and delivering measurable impact through a risk-calibrated approach.”

“A strong data foundation and strategy will be imperative to embedding trust in any company’s GenAI efforts. Our annual study findings also show that investments in areas like employee skillsets and a modern data management strategy will help achieve the business value the C-suite is seeking from AI,” Scott added.

While APAC data leaders plan to be all-cloud in a year or less and nearly a third in APAC (32%) expect to have 15 or more tools to support their data management priorities, data leaders are facing the daunting task of using many disparate tools and vendors, which could make their GenAI journey forward more complicated.