Melissa Incera is a research analyst on the 451 Research Data, AI & Analytics team within S&P Global Market Intelligence. Her focus lies in generative AI, its emergent use cases in enterprise applications and the foundation models that underpin it. Specifically, she tracks the text-generation landscape and its offshoots in enterprise search, AI assistants, marketing and writing tools. Prior to joining the AI team, Melissa spent a few years covering technology M&A and financial markets looking at high-level trends, noteworthy deals and investments, and forecasting activity across technology subsectors. She also did some work with the Workforce Productivity & Collaboration team, where she researched the future of work and emerging applications to enhance the employee experience. Melissa holds a bachelor’s degree in English Literature from Boston College and an MBA from ESADE, Ramon Llull University in Barcelona.
This report highlights key topics for 2026 in data, AI and analytics. Generative AI continues to permeate all aspects of the modern IT stack, supporting functions that rely on high-quality data, user-friendly tools and robust infrastructure. While some organizations continue to experiment with GenAI, an increasing number are moving into full-scale adoption and considering the business impacts and outcomes of their GenAI investments.
So much is happening in generative AI that we plan to produce one of these roundups each month for as long as it makes sense to do so. We augment this with reports on product releases from vendors — as well as other developments — as part of our Market Insight service.
With one in three organizations already using agents in some capacity, agentic AI is rapidly becoming a workplace reality. Rather than following a single path, organizations are pursuing multiple strategies simultaneously, experimenting with different approaches to agent development and vendor partnerships to accelerate adoption, target both high-value and lower-value workflows, and see what really sticks.
Voice of the Enterprise: AI & Machine Learning survey results and analysis provide you with actionable data and insight to understand the key dynamics driving the data analytics market.
Combining 451 Research’s industry-leading analysis with a proprietary global panel of IT decision-makers, Voice of the Enterprise: AI & Machine Learning tracks the disruption occurring in the market and exposes the major opportunities for enterprises, IT vendors, suppliers and investors.
This online survey of approximately 700 respondents was conducted from Sept. 1 to Oct. 24, 2025.
With one in three organizations already using agents in some capacity, agentic AI is rapidly becoming a workplace reality. Rather than following a single path, organizations are pursuing multiple strategies simultaneously, experimenting with different approaches to agent development and vendor partnerships to accelerate adoption, target both high-value and lower-value workflows, and see what really sticks.
Crosstabs (Excel tables | Download link in sidebar to the right) – Crosstabs of complete worldwide and regional survey results datasets, including key metrics and segmentation.
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The growing focus on agentic AI and retrieval-augmented generation has led to a proliferation of tools designed to help applications get off the ground and running. Deepset is set to parlay developer enthusiasm for Haystack into enterprise opportunity with more sophisticated AI needs and complex use cases.
So much is happening in generative AI that we plan to produce one of these roundups each month for as long as it makes sense to do so. We augment this with reports on product release from vendors — as well as other developments — as part of our Market Insight services.
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