Microsoft says Northern Trust’s AI agent cuts data prep from 2.5 weeks to three days

Microsoft says an agent it built with Northern Trust reduced client-onboarding data preparation to three days on average in measured production cases, versus roughly 2.5 weeks before. The measurement includes analyst review, exception handling and final validation—not just the AI’s processing time. Northern Trust COO Pete Cherecwich told CIO that staff review the output and handle uncertainty. Faster data wrangling, not a human-free workflow.