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• Agentic AI streamlines workflow automation and transformations.
• Application and automation platforms to integrate agentic AI capabilities in next 12 months.

Digital transformations will receive a major boost over the next 12 months following new platform integrations with agentic AI. The AI-injected solutions will significantly streamline the creation of workflow automation, which are critical to organizations moving to migrate legacy apps to cloud environments in order to realize CICD and improved application lifecycle efficiencies.

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• Early agentic AI announcements focus on easing the app development/deployment process

• Agentic technology provides developers with greater access to advanced automation

Over the past few months vendors have made good on their promise, releasing the industry’s first AI agent solutions.

Overwhelmingly, those offerings are targeting enterprise developers, and for two good reasons. First, application platform providers have quickly transformed their AI assistants and copilots used largely for code generation into autonomous AI agents, attractive for their ability to automate more tasks and speed the application lifecycle; and second, the ease to which these agents help streamline new workflow automations provides developers with greater access to AI and data-driven technology previously out of reach due to a lack of expertise.

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• Telcos lean on emerging industry standards to further API programs.

• Key to infra/app modernization success will be a collaboration between cloud and telco/networking players.

This week’s MWC25 mega conference showcased the growing trend toward cloud consolidation in which telecommunications players are moving up the stack to offer enterprise developers and DevOps teams greater access to network and communications services.

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• Global systems integrators and cloud giants step up efforts to meet integration demands of enterprise transformation projects.

• AWS, Google, Microsoft, and Oracle more than doubled job requisites of DevOps roles between 2023 and 2024.

Over the past 12 months, cloud platform leaders have logged a staggering amount of job posts, largely among roles supporting business transformation, according to GlobalData’s job analytics data intelligence platform. Global systems integrator giant Accenture listed a whopping 103,517 jobs, while research surrounding other platform rivals was equally surprising. AWS posted 85,843 jobs; Oracle 49,533; IBM 31,733; Microsoft 6,278; and DXC 4,930. It is worth noting Accenture also closed over 105,000 job openings during the last 12-month period, while Amazon Web Services (AWS) closed over 87,000 openings, and Oracle over 49,000 jobs, having found candidates to fill these vacancies.

Summary Bullets:

• Developers will face limitations on generative AI (genAI) usage.

• Agentic AI represents the largest upskilling opportunity.

GlobalData is closely following cloud trends under its new 2025 market driver category, Cloud Reconsidered. GlobalData anticipates in the new year that enterprise DevOps modeled teams will implement an entirely new approach in leveraging cloud services. The cloud is more pervasive than ever for scalability and efficiency. It’s become evident that a cloud-based IT portfolio brings the greatest promise for providing the highly critical centralized interface for development and automation platform services, which companies are seeking. This centralized management interface is more vital than ever for new challenges, which will spring up in the coming year. This is especially true for the provisioning of genAI tools, security, and management tools as well as reinforcing collaboration between development teams.