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Gartner Application Innovation & Business Solutions Summit 2025 dove deep into key topics for enterprise application and software engineering leaders around AI agents, intelligent applications, managing cultural change and more.
Session Take-Aways
Day 1 Take-Aways
The Key Components of a Successful Enterprise Applications Strategy
Speakers:
- Tad Travis, VP Analyst
Key take-aways
- Next generation of enterprise applications will feature embedded intelligence, an adaptive user experience and autonomous orchestration.
- Organizations should look for incremental improvements in process automation and knowledge sharing.
- Application strategy should be primarily top-down from the business objectives but use bottom-up for crucial modernization needs.
Day 2 Take-Aways
Move Over Traditional and Generative AI: Agentic AI Is the Next Big Hype in Enterprise Applications
Speakers:
- Greg Leiter, VP Analyst
Key take-aways
- Three viewpoints on AI Agent capabilities: Aspiration, Demos and Reality.
- Understanding Agentic AI Use Cases Promoted by Vendors.
- Key issues to consider about Agentic AI including Agent Washing and AI Sprawl.
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Monday, 08 September, 2025
11:00 AM - 11:30 AM BST
The Key Components of a Successful Enterprise Application Strategy
Tad Travis,
VP Analyst, Gartner
This presentation will outline the key components of a successful enterprise application strategy. Join this session to learn how to create an overarching strategy for my enterprise application portfolios, ensure alignment between the application strategy and business stakeholder priorities, and understand and measure business stakeholder priorities.
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11:00 AM - 11:30 AM BST
Prioritize Application Portfolio Management Opportunities With Business Architecture
Andrew Gianni,
Director Analyst, Gartner
Application portfolio management can be an overwhelming challenge. It may be easy enough to identify opportunities for change in the portfolio, but how does one prioritize those changes? This session will introduce concepts in business architecture can be used to support prioritization of application portfolio management activities.
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11:00 AM - 11:30 AM BST
The Future of Developer Productivity
Frank O'Connor,
Sr Director Analyst, Gartner
What are the best strategies for measuring and enhancing developer productivity? We’ll explore how narrow approaches to measuring productivity fall short and why a more holistic approach is essential. Learn to measure true productivity with outcome-based metrics that align with business goals, focusing on quality, user satisfaction and collaboration. Discover strategies to balance AI automation with human expertise and foster a culture of continuous learning and innovation.
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11:00 AM - 11:30 AM BST
How Will Generative AI Affect Your API Strategy?
Andrew Humphreys,
Sr Director Analyst, Gartner
Generative AI has impacted all things technology. APIs are no exception. Clients looking to embrace Generative AI as part of their API strategy need to be apprised of the quick wins and pitfalls associated with this decision.
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11:00 AM - 11:30 AM BST
How to Modernize Integration to Reduce Technical Debt
Keith Guttridge,
VP Analyst, Gartner
As companies aim to move faster than ever before, integration is an essential component, providing the building blocks for IT agility. However, technical debt in integration leads to higher costs, poor reliability and quality issues that undermine organizational agility. This session will show how to manage technical debt by identifying and prioritizing the highest-impact items to be addressed.
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11:45 AM - 12:15 PM BST
How Heads of Enterprise Architecture Can Enable AI-Ready Data
Mehak Kaur,
Director, Research, Gartner
There are high expectations for AI to give enterprise growth, but a lack of data quality to meet AI use-case requirements abounds. Heads of enterprise architecture must enable AI-ready data and apply adaptive governance to not inhibit innovation and responsiveness.
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11:45 AM - 12:15 PM BST
How AI Agents Will Disrupt Software Engineering
Joachim Herschmann,
VP Analyst, Gartner
AI agents in software engineering step beyond AI code assistants to act as autonomous autopilots for software development and testing tasks. Software engineering leaders can use this research to assess the opportunities and risks of implementing AI agents into their development process.
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11:45 AM - 12:15 PM BST
Top 10 Reasons Why Generative AI Projects Fail and How to Fix It
Arun Chandrasekaran,
Distinguished VP Analyst, Gartner
More than 50% of generative AI projects fail. In this session, IT Leaders will learn the common causes of failures and understand the best practices to mitigate those failures and scale AI across the enterprise.
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11:45 AM - 12:15 PM BST
10 Best Practices to Get Your Enterprise Process Automation Initiative Back on Track
Arthur Villa,
Sr Director Analyst, Gartner
The automation of business processes is a top priority for most CEOs, but these initiatives can often stall or remain siloed within a single department. In this session, we'll share 10 tactics to reshape and relaunch your automation program.
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