AI, and agentic AI in particular, is fundamentally changing the way we approach data and analytics. This shift is affecting leaders and professionals across every industry, many of whom are navigating how to reshape their data infrastructure, management, and governance to meet the needs of an agentic future.

Leaders understand the value of data. Sixty-three percent of today’s business leaders describe their organizations as very data-driven – up ten percentage points from 53% in 2023. Despite this, nearly two-thirds (63%) of technical leaders acknowledge that their companies struggle to drive business priorities with data. This highlights a widening gap between intent and impact: While more leaders may identify as data-driven, most organizations still struggle to turn that data into business outcomes.

This report explores the effect of the acceleration of AI and its impact on everything from how companies use and activate data to the growing challenge of data confidence. It underscores the imperative of building a strong data and AI foundation, while also governing and safeguarding the agentic enterprise. Finally, it looks ahead to the emerging need for agent interoperability, which will soon be essential for doing business.

It is our hope that this report will provide insight into how leaders across industries are securing, governing, and fully leveraging data and analytics in this new agentic era, and how these strategies and tactics are enabling them to foster innovation and drive business value.

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