As AI models become more capable and organizations increase their investments in agentic AI, the bottleneck for ROI is shifting from pilot quality to a need for enterprise-wide data readiness. A new report from autonomous knowledge platform Teradata that surveyed 1,000 senior technology and data leaders in March and April shows that although 90% of respondents expect to increase agentic AI investments over the next 12 months, only 37% report strong positive returns to date.
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