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What is Agentic Insights?

AI in your analytics tool doesn’t make it agentic: Agentic Insights watches your business, recommends what to do and, with your approval, takes the action, on a foundation you can use to deploy, manage and govern agents across your business.

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What is Agentic Insights?What is Agentic Insights?
October 29, 2026
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Plenty ofanalytics tools now come with AI built in, whether that is a forecasting model,a chat box or a summary of what moved. Useful as those features are, they donot make insights agentic. Most still wait for someone to ask, and the actionstill happens elsewhere, done by hand or inside the analytics tool.

AgenticInsights works differently. It keeps watching your business, flags what needsattention before you ask, recommends what to do and, once your people approve,takes the action in your business systems.

You will hear alot more about agentic insights over the coming months, as more vendors add theword to what they already sell. Knowing what it really means will help you buythe right thing. If you are weighing up tools that claim to be agentic, three questionswill tell you a lot:

•       Does it act without being asked?

•       Does it take the action in your business, not just on adashboard?

•       Can you control and check everything it does?

Agentic Insights is built to answer yes to all three.

How insights have evolved

Insightsstarted with spreadsheets and reports: useful, but slow to build and alwayslooking backwards. Dashboards then brought data from different systems into oneplace, and predictive analytics added AI and machine learning to forecast whatmight happen next. Today, asking questions in plain English is standard, soanyone can get an answer without waiting for an analyst.

Each step madedata more useful, but someone still had to act on what it showed.

Everythingrests on the foundation beneath the levels: connected systems, unified data andorchestrated processes. That matters more than the AI itself. Gartnerpredicts that through 2026, organisations will abandon 60% of AI projects thatare not supported by AI ready data, and agents can only act on what they cansee and reach. Xfuze provides that foundation and every level above it on oneplatform, so you can start where you are and move up when you are ready.

What makes insights agentic

Take a stockshortfall. Traditional reporting shows it next week. Agentic Insights flags itas it happens, explains the cause, recommends moving stock between locationsand, with your approval, raises the transfer. Your people stay in control: theyset the rules, review the recommendations and decide what the agents can do ontheir own. Every action is governed and recorded in one place, and the agentslearn from the results.

It is alsofully self service, so business teams can explore their data, ask questions andact on recommendations without raising a request with IT. That leaves more timefor the decisions that grow the business.

Three generations of insights

 

Traditional BIAI assisted analyticsAgentic Insights
What you getWhat happenedWhat happened and whyWhat happened, why, what to do, and the action taken
Questions in plain EnglishNoYesYes
Self serviceLimited: analysts build the reportsPartly: answers, but no actionYes: explore, decide and act in one place
TimingPeriodic reportsWhen you askContinuous, with alerts as things change
RecommendationsWorked out by peopleOccasional suggestionsAI recommendations based on your data
ActionManualManual, or within the analytics toolCarried out by agents, with your approval
Where agents actNo agentsInside the analytics toolAcross your business systems
Foundation neededYou build and connect itYou build and connect itProvided: systems connected, data unified, processes orchestrated
GovernanceReport access controlsVaries by toolEvery agent action governed and recorded in one place
Role of your peopleDoing the legworkAsking and interpretingGuiding, approving and deciding

Why it matters now

Agentic AI ismoving quickly. Gartnerexpects at least 15% of day to day work decisions to be made autonomouslythrough agentic AI by 2028, up from virtually none in 2024. With tight marginsand customers who change their minds fast, the businesses that act on theirdata sooner will be the ones that perform better.

Xfuze AgenticInsights runs on Xfuze, our Agentic Orchestration Platform, which provides youwith the agentic ready foundation today: integration and orchestration, datamanagement, insights and analytics, and Agentic AI in one unified platform.That same foundation is what you need to deploy, manage and govern agentsacross the rest of your business, so what you set up for Agentic Insightscarries straight into your next step.

See it for yourself

The best way tounderstand Agentic Insights is to use it. Register for free self service accessand explore it with sample data. Ask CHIP Assist, our AI Assistant, a questionin plain English, and see how CHIP Pulse alerts you when something important changesand tells you why.

You can see how it worksL Try Xfuze Agentic Insights for free

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