RESEARCH REPORT
Harvard Business Review Analytic Services: Solving Agentic AI’s Data Infrastructure and Telemetry Needs
A new HBR-AS report on why AI ambitions are outpacing infrastructure readiness, and how leaders are fixing the gap.
Overview
The AI race is being won or lost at the infrastructure layer. While AI ambitions are soaring, many organizations are discovering that their current telemetry infrastructure wasn’t built for the scale, cost, and complexity of agentic AI.
In this HBR-AS report, discover how global leaders are navigating the shift to agentic AI.
This report lays out a path to build an AI-ready telemetry foundation, so your team and agents have the real-time, high-quality signals they need, and your AI execution finally matches what the slide deck promised.
76%
of respondents say agentic AI is already increasing telemetry volumes
80%
agree that their organization expects its data infrastructure to change because of agentic AI
47%
of respondents say AI projects are already seeing higher-than-expected infrastructure costs
Video
Blog
AI initiatives don’t die because the vision is wrong. They die because the foundation can’t carry the weight. Read Cribl Chief Customer Officer Abby Strong’s blog on what leading organizations are doing to get the telemetry architecture right.
Resources
Every organization is experiencing an epoch-level change in how work gets done. Get the latest insights from global leaders on how to turn AI ambition into infrastructure reality.