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Closing the Enterprise Context Gap

Closing the Enterprise Context Gap

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Enterprise AI is undergoing a fundamental shift, moving from conversational chatbots to autonomous agents that make decisions and execute operational workflows. That shift stalls before reaching production more often than not. Futurum Research’s 1H 2026 Data Intelligence, Analytics, and Infrastructure Decision Maker Survey found enterprise agentic AI adoption leveling off at 47%, with more than a quarter of technology leaders citing data integration difficulties as their primary bottleneck.

Closing that gap takes more than better prompts. It takes an active, neutral foundation that links distributed data stores, embeds domain-specific semantic models, enforces runtime governance, and establishes an operational memory loop, so autonomous agents gain the governed business context needed to reason, execute, and act reliably across hybrid and multi-cloud environments.

In our latest thought leadership brief, Closing the Enterprise Context Gap, completed in partnership with Teradata, Futurum Research examines why autonomous AI agents stall at the production threshold and outlines the governed context architecture technology leaders need to move from pilots to reliable, auditable production deployments, including pre-built Industry Knowledge Models that ground agents in verified domain logic.

In this brief, you will learn:

  • Why enterprise agentic AI adoption is leveling off at 47%, and which architectural bottlenecks are blocking production deployment
  • The operational and economic costs of stitching together point tools like vector RAG, data catalogs, and standalone knowledge graphs
  • How a four-tier context architecture, grounded in pre-governed Industry Knowledge Models, gives agents deterministic business context
  • Five pragmatic next steps for moving autonomous agents from brittle proofs-of-concept to reliable production infrastructure

If you are interested in learning more, be sure to download your copy of Closing the Enterprise Context Gap today.

Author Information

Brad Shimmin

Brad Shimmin is Vice President and Practice Lead, Data Intelligence, Analytics, & Infrastructure at Futurum. He provides strategic direction and market analysis to help organizations maximize their investments in data and analytics. Currently, Brad is focused on helping companies establish an AI-first data strategy.

With over 30 years of experience in enterprise IT and emerging technologies, Brad is a distinguished thought leader specializing in data, analytics, artificial intelligence, and enterprise software development. Consulting with Fortune 100 vendors, Brad specializes in industry thought leadership, worldwide market analysis, client development, and strategic advisory services.

Brad earned his Bachelor of Arts from Utah State University, where he graduated Magna Cum Laude. Brad lives in Longmeadow, MA, with his beautiful wife and far too many LEGO sets.

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Benjamin Brown, VP Custom Research, Futurum Research

Benjamin Brown

VP, Custom Research · The Futurum Group

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