Agents-as-a-service poised to reshape enterprise software and corporate structures

Summary

A CIO feature argues that autonomous AI agents delivered as “agents-as-a-service” are rapidly emerging on top of traditional SaaS, with more than half of surveyed executives already experimenting with AI agents for customer service, marketing, cybersecurity and software development. Drawing on forecasts from Gartner and IDC, it predicts that by 2026 a large share of enterprise applications will embed agentic AI, shifting user interaction away from individual apps toward cross‑app AI orchestrators and forcing CIOs to rethink pricing, integration and security models. ([cio.com](https://www.cio.com/article/4098664/agents-as-a-service-are-poised-to-rewire-the-software-industry-and-corporate-structures.html))