Cisco, SLB, Avalara Launch New "Agentic AI" Enterprise Platforms
The product launches signal a market shift toward autonomous AI agents that can execute complex business tasks and workflows.
A Market Shift to Autonomous Agents
The enterprise software market saw a coordinated push into "agentic AI". Multiple companies launched platforms designed to move AI from a passive assistant to an autonomous actor that performs business tasks. This trend was supported by a report from analyst firm SlashData. The report found that agentic AI has "moved from lab to production," with 50% of developers who have adopted AI functionality already deploying agentic systems. However, analysts also warned of "AI agent sprawl." A Communications of the ACM article on the same day described this as a "growing tangle of disconnected …
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