The yellow brick road to agentic AI [Video]

The road to agentic artificial intelligence will be paved with stepping stones that progressively build on each other.

Our research suggests that agentic AI will not suddenly appear without a strong data foundation built on: 1) cloud-like scalability; 2) a unified metadata model; 3) data mesh organizing principles; 4) harmonized data and business process logic; and an orchestration framework that incorporates governance, security and observability.

Though some believe the year of agentic AI will come to fruition in 2025, we predict bringing these capabilities together is a decade-long journey and there’s no shortcut on the yellow brick road to realizing agentic automation.

In this Breaking Analysis, we piece together previous research and point to a dramatic change in the enterprise software stack. We’ll explain how we see the journey playing out, the critical pieces of the emerging enterprise software architecture and the high-value layers of real estate in that system that …