Agentic AI puts $234B in enterprise SaaS spending at risk, Gartner says

AI agents are poised to challenge traditional enterprise software business models, placing up to $234 billion in application software spending at risk by 2030 as they increasingly bypass human users and interact directly with business systems, according to Gartner. “You are no longer buying software primarily for people; you are increasingly buying it for agents,” George Brocklehurst, managing vice president at Gartner, told CIO . “For a couple of decades, software has been evaluated on the inte