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At Data + AI Summit 2026, Databricks expanded Agent Bricks into a full developer agent platform, arguing the core agent loop is just 1% of the work and the other 99% — context, governance, cost, monitoring — is where projects stall. The operator takeaway: agents are only as trustworthy as the governed data and controls underneath them.
Celonis Field CTO Manuel Haug describes a cost curve that bends sharply as enterprises move agents from human-in-the-loop to 'human on the loop.' Token-based pricing behaves like compute, not seats — and the same flywheel that drives productivity drives the budget. The operator question is whether each autonomous decision is worth its tokens.
GALLO, the world's largest wine producer, deployed agentic decision intelligence from Aera Technology on top of its existing ERP and roughly 400 boundary systems — not to add software, but to close what its supply chain VP calls a 'signal deficit.' The operator takeaway: the value was sitting in the boundaries between silos.
Walmart US says AI-coordinated robots that build 'intelligently layered' pallets have cut trailer unloading from hours to minutes, with 16 next-generation distribution centers planned by year-end. The operator lesson is that the win came from sequencing and store-level data, not the robots alone.
KPMG will use Microsoft Agent 365 to manage, monitor and secure AI agents across its 138-country network and roll Microsoft 365 Copilot out to its entire 276,000-person workforce. The signal for operators: the enterprise agent conversation has moved from 'can it work' to 'can you govern it.'
At its Delivering the Future event in London, Amazon unveiled a next-generation Proteus robot that employees direct with conversational language, part of a €10 billion European fulfillment investment. The shift worth watching is the instruction layer — natural language over the hardware — not the robot itself.
At Inspire 2026, Coupa launched Coupa Compose — a full agentic runtime for procurement, finance, and supply chain — plus Catalyst deployment services and the Rossum acquisition for intelligent document processing. The platform runs 20+ specialized agents on a foundation of ten trillion dollars in spend data.
Manhattan Associates announced Manhattan Marketplace and Solution Design Studio at Momentum 2026, giving WMS operators a shared ecosystem to discover and deploy certified agents and an AI workspace that auto-translates natural-language blueprints into live warehouse configurations.
Oracle made 12 Fusion Agentic Applications generally available across Oracle Fusion Cloud ERP and SCM in April 2026, covering logistics execution, maintenance operations, and process manufacturing — each acting within existing approval guardrails and escalating only when human judgment materially changes the outcome.