The era of the agentic enterprise isn't coming, it's here: Snowflake lays out what is business needs to be truly agentic

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Thu, 01 Oct 2026 14:43:54 +0000

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Is your business ready to be an agentic enterprise?

FULL STORY ======================================================================Copy link Facebook X Whatsapp Reddit Pinterest Flipboard Threads Email Share this article 0 Join the conversation Follow us Add us as a preferred source on Google Newsletter Subscribe to our newsletter As businesses everywhere continue to get to grips with the reality of AI-powered workflows, Snowflake has revealed its view of what it will take for a company to become a truly agentic enterprise.

Speaking at the companys Snowflake World Tour London event, senior leaders laid out how a number of factors will all contribute to agentic success. The 'Agentic Enterprise' is here There's no enterprise AI strategy without a data strategy, declared James Hall, Snowflake Country Manager, UK&I as he kicked off the keynote. Latest Videos From TechRadar Watch full video here:

You need the right data foundation, trusted, governed, secure and
accessiblein just 12 months, weve moved from talking about the potential of
AI to putting AI to workits now all about making AI real for business as we enter the era of the agentic enterprise.

Hall highlighted the success of UK&I customers such as mobile operator GiffGaff, with Snowflake CEO Sridhar Ramaswamy also later joined on stage by the CEO of the London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG) as proof of this. You may like Introducing AI-as-a-Service Agentic AI in the enterprise: Why architecture matters more than marketing claims Organizations must overhaul their infrastructure in order to maximize the agentic AI opportunity

But it was Christian Kleinerman, EVP Product Management, who took to the
stage to run through the factors the company sees as vital for an agentic enterprise.

We are all part of the era of the agentic enterprise, he declared, defining this term as an organization that has been able to embed AI powered agents into its core operating processes, co-ordinating with humans, setting directions, setting guardrails and automating as much as possible - all with the ultimate goal of help workers be more productive, and creating better business outcomes. Are you a pro? Subscribe to our newsletter Sign up to the TechRadar Pro newsletter to get all the top news, opinion, features and guidance your business needs to succeed! Contact me with news and offers from other Future brands Receive email from us on behalf of our trusted partners
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The promise of AI is unparalleled, in my mind, to other technologies that we've seen in our lifetime, Kleinerman added, addressing a growing myth
around the technology, namely that some organizations believe AI is so good and smart, the data will sort itself out.

But if anything, the opposite is true, Kleinerman said the most amazing results you can envisage with AI come from having a great data strategy. (Image credit: Snowflake) Kleinerman noted three main elements for an enterprise to be truly agentic - an AI model, data context, and software and apps - all feeding into what Snowflake calls an agentic control plane. What
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When it comes to picking a model, Kleinerman noted the company is committed
to model choice for all of you - as there is clearly no way to know who will win out in AI models even within the next few months.

Data context is becoming increasingly crucial, he added, as understanding
your business matters a lot to how AI can be beneficial for you, and having the right software and apps will really allow AI to integrate with the rest
of your enterprise infrastructure.

The truly amazing results come when you really understand your data, he
added, we want to un-silo your data, we want to help you govern your
data...so humans can be more data-driven - AI has supercharged that ability.

All of this flows into the agentic control plane - the glue that holds all this together, Kleinerman concluded, the agentic enterprise truly comes to life when the AI models can interoperate with the rest of your enterprise infrastructure(and) hopefully it feels like an avalanche of innovation...our goal is to continue accelerating.

Were operating in a fast-moving environment, arguably the biggest risk any business could take right now is by standing still - but moving fast with
data and AI shouldnt mean losing control, it means having the foundation, the flexibility and the confidence to move quickly, Hill added.

The era of the agentic enterprise isn't coming, it's here - its happening right now in production. Follow TechRadar on Google News and add us as a preferred source to get our expert news, reviews, and opinion in your feeds.



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