Agentic automation will enhance more than 40% of enterprise applications by 2027.

IDC · made December 2025 · target Dec 2027 · Open

forecasts that by 2027, agentic automation will enhance capabilities in over 40% of enterprise applications

IDC, Agent Adoption: The IT Industry's Next Great Inflection Point (IDC blog)

The prediction

Who: IDC
Made: December 2025
Target: Dec 31, 2027 (stated as "by 2027")
Status: Openin 15 months
Source: Agent Adoption: The IT Industry's Next Great Inflection Point (IDC blog) Primary: their own words
Topics: Agents

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September 2026	By 2028, 42% of the world's largest companies will have rationalized their entire agent and app portfolio.Open · target Dec 2028	Dec 2028by 2028	Agents	Open
Sep 17, 2026	Asia/Pacific AI and GenAI spending will grow from $121.5 billion in 2025 to $555.2 billion by 2030.Open · target Dec 2030	Dec 2030by 2030	Markets	Open
Sep 17, 2026	European AI spending will reach nearly $470 billion in 2030.Open · target Dec 2030	Dec 2030in 2030	Markets	Open
Sep 10, 2026	There will be no meaningful relief in memory supply for enterprise storage before 2028.Open · target Dec 2027	Dec 2027before 2028	Data	Open
April 2026	The global AI infrastructure market will pass $1 trillion by 2029.Open · target Dec 2029	Dec 2029by 2029	Compute	Open
April 2026	AI infrastructure spending will reach $487 billion in 2026, up about 53%.Open · target Dec 2026	Dec 2026in 2026	Compute	Open
March 2026	Agentic AI will exceed 26% of worldwide IT spending, about $1.3 trillion, in 2029.Open · target Dec 2029	Dec 2029by 2029 (that same year)	Agents	Open
December 2025	Agent use at the world's 2,000 largest companies will rise tenfold by 2027, with token and API loads up a thousandfold.Open · target Dec 2027	Dec 2027by 2027	Agents	Open
December 2025	More than one billion AI agents will be actively deployed worldwide by 2029.Open · target Dec 2029	Dec 2029by 2029	Agents	Open
December 2025	Companies without AI-ready data will suffer a 15% productivity loss by 2027.Open · target Dec 2027	Dec 2027by 2027	Data	Open

Made	Prediction	Target	Topic	Status
Sep 9, 2026	Agents will make AI as fundamental as electricity for knowledge work within 18 months.Open · Nathan Lambert, Interconnects · target Mar 2028	Mar 2028in the next 18 months	Agents	Open
Aug 11, 2026	AI research and development will be fully automated around 2030 to 2031.Open · Unverified · Ryan Greenblatt, Redwood Research · target Dec 2031	Dec 2031around 2031, 2030	AGI	Open
Jul 29, 2026	Within five years billions of people will have a personal AI agent working for them around the clock.Open · Unverified · Mark Zuckerberg, Meta · target Jul 2031	Jul 2031five years from now	Agents	Open
June 2026	More than one in ten enterprises will be AI-first by 2030.Open · Unverified · Gartner · target Dec 2030	Dec 2030by 2030	Agents	Open
May 4, 2026	There is about a 60% chance of automated AI R&D, a model training its own successor, by the end of 2028.Open · Jack Clark, Anthropic · target Dec 2028	Dec 2028by the end of 2028	AGI	Open
Mar 13, 2026	About three billion digital agents will be added to enterprises by 2030.Open · Unverified · Bill McDermott, ServiceNow · target Dec 2030	Dec 2030by 2030	Agents	Open

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