Gartner Data & Analytics Summit 2025 Orlando: Day 2 Highlights

We are bringing you news and highlights from the Gartner Data & Analytics Summit, taking place this week in Orlando, Florida. Below is a collection of the key announcements and insights coming out of the conference. You can read the highlights from Day 1 here and Day 3 here.

On Day 2 from the conference, we are highlighting the AI agents, the future of analytics in the era of genAI and top trends in data and analytics. Be sure to check this page throughout the day for updates.

• Gartner Identifies Three Areas to Help Data & Analytics Leaders Scale AI
• Gartner Identifies Top Trends in Data and Analytics for 2025

Ben Yan, Director Analyst, Gartner

AI agents are emerging as an important trend since they enable levels of business adaptability, flexibility and agility that traditional AI systems can’t achieve. In this session, Ben Yan, Director Analyst at Gartner, discussed how autonomous behaviors, despite significant societal, legal and ethical implications, are the answer to the increasing complexity in enterprise systems.

• “Identify the organization’s solutions where AI agents can really make a difference given their intrinsic capabilities.”
• “Prepare software engineering teams for disruptive practice where AI agents make sense.”
• “Implement a comprehensive AI literacy program as the deployment of AI agents implies a deeper understanding of composite AI techniques.” 
• “Prepare for the next stage of AI agents by exploring software simulation environments.”

Journalists can receive additional information and/or request an interview with the Gartner expert by contacting Matt LoDolce at matt.lodolce@gartner.com.

Presented by Rita Sallam, Distinguished VP Analyst, Gartner

Analytics is experiencing a monumental change. In this session, Rita Sallam, Distinguished VP Analyst at Gartner, discussed the new technologies that are making an impact and how they will affect plans for future investment in analytics tools, platforms and solutions.

• “74% of IT and business leaders believe GenAI accelerates the speed of decision making.”

• “65% of IT and business leaders believe GenAI leads to better decision outcomes.”

• “Perceptive analytics uses LLM-powered reasoning and AI agents in order to achieve proactive, contextual, outcome-driven decision-making.”

• “By 2027, augmented analytics capabilities will evolve into autonomous analytics platforms that fully manage and execute 20% of business processes.”

   

  Journalists can receive additional information and/or request an interview with the Gartner expert by contacting Matt LoDolce at matt.lodolce@gartner.com.

Presented by Gareth Herschel, VP Analyst, Gartner

AI is having a huge impact, but is not the only thing with societal, technological, and organizational implications driving change in data and analytics. In this session, Gareth Herschel, VP Analyst at Gartner, examined how trends  such as complexity, trust, and empowerment are impacting leaders and teams as they make decisions in all aspects of their D&A strategy.

• Trend No. 1: Highly Consumable Data Products: “Start with business-critical use cases;  correlate and scale products to reduce data delivery bottlenecks.”

• Trend No. 2: Metadata Management Solutions: “Start with technical metadata and add business metadata to enable context.” 

• Trend No. 3: Multi-Modal Data Fabric: “Build a metadata management practice where tools share metadata across the entire data pipeline. Use tools to remove duplicate metadata and share metadata bidirectionally with other tools.”

• Trend No. 4: Synthetic Data: “Identify areas in your organization where data is missing, incomplete or expensive to obtain, and is thus currently blocking AI initiatives.”

Journalists can read more in the press release “Gartner Identifies Top Trends in Data and Analytics for 2025.”