As agentic AI moves into real business processes, organizations are increasing their focus on the data foundation behind it. This new IDC Spotlight examines where data leaders are investing, the challenges they face and the capabilities emerging as critical for trusted AI-first operations.

The research explores what these shifts mean for organizations adopting agentic AI and how Agentic Data Intelligence can help address them, with a closer look at how IBM watsonx.data intelligence can put these capabilities into practice and provide trusted, governed data for AI.

Read the IDC Spotlight to learn:

• How agentic AI is reshaping data management priorities and investment
• Which data challenges are creating the greatest barriers to AI-first operations
• Why trusted, continuously maintained context is becoming critical for AI agents
• How open standards such as MCP can help connect enterprise data intelligence with AI agents across the organization