Can Agentic AI Bridge the Gap with Trusted Enterprise Data?
SAP, Wednesday, September 23rd, 2026
Reltio's CEO says 94% of firms are exploring agentic AI, but only 15% believe their data is truly ready.
Reltio CEO Manish Sood argues that agentic AI exposes decades-old problems with fragmented, inconsistent enterprise data.
He cites Harvard Business Review Analytic Services research showing 94% of organizations are exploring or implementing agentic AI while only 15% believe their data foundation is ready.
Unlike a demo, Sood says, an AI agent acting inside a real business cannot tolerate data gaps, since giving software decision-making power raises the stakes of data quality and context. He identifies fragmentation, trust and governance as the three recurring barriers, noting AI agents lack the institutional knowledge humans use to compensate for messy systems.