Most enterprises have an AI agent pilot. Far fewer have a safe way to run agents across the systems that hold their data. In a 2025 Harvard Business Review Analytic Services survey, over 80% of IT executives called connectivity and data integration critical to agent success. Only 8% had orchestration in place. In this report, Head of Research at Workato, Massimo Pezzini, gives a plain read on where things stand, including the parts vendors usually skip: Why MCP is worth adopting, and why not unconditionally Where agent-to-agent standards actually are in production today Why a pile of orchestration tools turns into technical debt Why your existing integration investments are the foundation, not the obstacle Why to start small and plan for a few wrong calls along the way.
