Signal Gartner is cited for 40% of enterprise apps carrying task-specific agents by 2026, from under 5%

Summary

NTT DATA cites a Gartner forecast about how quickly AI agents will spread through enterprise software. According to Gartner, up to 40 percent of enterprise applications will include integrated, task-specific AI agents by 2026. The comparable figure for 2025 was put at less than 5 percent, implying roughly an eightfold jump in about a year. The report lists this among its enterprise adoption signals for human-orchestrated autonomy. It sits alongside the view that companies are moving from pilots to agents embedded in everyday business tools. If the forecast holds, oversight of many small, specialised agents will become a routine management task.