According to a Gartner study, 85 percent of AI projects will flatline by 2022. Even the most diligent machine learning models may not meet expectations when deployed in an enterprise setting, mainly due to two reasons — inadequate data infrastructure and talent scarcity.

In the machine learning pipeline, search for appropriate data and dataset preparation are among the most time-consuming processes. A data scientist spends around 80 percent of his/her time in managing and preparing data for analysis. The demand-supply gap for qualified data scientists is another pressing challenge.

Enter, feature store.

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