State of Agentic Orchestration and Automation 2026
Discover what 1,150 senior IT leaders, business decision-makers, and enterprise software architects shared about today’s automation landscape, how AI agents are being used, and what’s holding organizations back from scaling and governing them in production.
As organizations double down on automating their most critical processes, they’re also navigating increasingly distributed tech stacks and the rapid adoption of AI in everyday work. AI agents offer new possibilities for automating complex knowledge tasks, but many teams still face a clear gap between agentic AI’s potential and what they can reliably operationalize at scale.
This report explores how enterprises can close that gap by moving from isolated agent experiments to orchestrated, governed agentic automation across people, systems, and processes.
Download this report to gain perspective on:
- Expanding automation to drive the most impact
- Tackling rising process complexity with smarter orchestration
- Maximizing AI’s potential while managing real operational risks
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Get a sneak peek into key findings:
- 79% of respondents plan to increase automation spend, with budgets expected to rise by an average of 20% over the next two years
- Survey respondents shared that they manage an average of 50 endpoints in their business processes, and that footprint is growing at 14% year over year
- 73% of decision makers say there is a gap between their vision for agentic AI use and the reality today
- 81% of respondents say that without agentic orchestration, achieving a fully autonomous enterprise is a “pipe dream.”