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Agentic AI Use Cases Fail When the Wrong Projects Get Funded, Warns Info-Tech Research Group

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Organizations across every sector are rushing to adopt agentic AI in data management, but many lack a reliable way to decide which use cases are worth funding. New insights from Info-Tech Research Group provide a structured method to qualify and prioritize those use cases before investment. The firm’s blueprint, Create Your Agentic AI Roadmap for Data Management, helps data leaders qualify agentic AI use cases through three gates: agentic fit, readiness, and complexity, before scoring them to deliver a sequenced, fundable roadmap.

ARLINGTON, Va., Aug. 25, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — The hype around agentic AI is growing rapidly, but many organizations lack a consistent way to evaluate where it can deliver value. Vendors and internal teams often push for AI agents to solve problems that simple automation could handle at a lower cost and with less risk. Info-Tech Research Group’s new blueprint, Create Your Agentic AI Roadmap for Data Management, helps data leaders separate genuine agentic opportunities from routine automation and invest only where the organization is ready to deliver.

Organizations are under pressure to show results with AI, but moving too soon can be costly. Agentic AI requires stronger data governance, controls, and oversight than traditional AI. Many teams overestimate their readiness and then watch pilots stall when data quality and governance gaps appear. The firm’s blueprint helps teams identify gaps early by validating every use case candidate through three gates: fit, readiness, and complexity.

“The fastest way to waste an AI budget is to invest in agentic AI before confirming whether a use case actually needs an AI agent,” says Jason Edwards, principal research director at Info-Tech Research Group. “Teams need to make sure the data and governance foundations are ready, understand how complex the use case will be to build, and confirm that an agent is the right solution before they move forward.”

Key Challenges Data Leaders Face With Agentic AI in Data Management
Info-Tech’s research points to four common barriers:

Agent-washing hides the truth. Vendors and teams label ordinary automation as “agentic,” which makes honest comparison nearly impossible.No consistent way to qualify ideas. Teams choose use cases based on excitement and demos, not with a repeatable test of fit, readiness, and complexity.Readiness is overestimated. Data quality and governance gaps often stay hidden until a project is funded and a pilot is already underway.Complexity is underestimated. The real cost, effort, and risk surface too late, and the initiative stalls.

Info-Tech’s Three-Phase Framework for Prioritizing Agentic AI Use Cases
The Create Your Agentic AI Roadmap for Data Management blueprint guides teams through the following three phases:

Phase 1: Define the use cases. Teams choose their highest-priority data management domains, select and scope candidate use cases, and document them in a structured register.

Phase 2: Qualify the use cases. Teams run each candidate through agentic fit, readiness, and complexity gates to confirm whether it needs an agent, check the data and governance foundations, and analyze how hard it is to build.

Phase 3: Prioritize and act. Teams score the qualified candidates on benefit, effort, and risk, then sort them into a sequenced roadmap.

The Create Your Agentic AI Roadmap for Data Management blueprint includes an Agentic AI Scoring Kit, which runs candidates through a three-gate model, and an Agentic AI Candidate Definition Workbook, which standardizes how use cases are scoped. These tools help CIOs, data leaders, and governance teams turn a long list of competing ideas into a clear roadmap with owners, guardrails, and measurable goals that leadership can fund.

For exclusive and timely commentary from Info-Tech’s experts, including Jason Edwards, and access to the complete Create Your Agentic AI Roadmap for Data Management blueprint, please contact pr@infotech.com.

About Info-Tech Research Group

Info-Tech Research Group is the “get things done” partner for over 30,000 IT, HR, and marketing leaders worldwide. The fastest growing research and advisory firm, Info-Tech enables leaders to make well-informed decisions and transform their organizations through AI, strategic foresight, step-by-step methodologies, practical tools, industry-leading advisory, and training programs. For nearly 30 years, tens of thousands of private and public organizations have trusted Info-Tech to lead their most important initiatives through periods of change and deliver outcomes that truly matter.

To learn more about Info-Tech’s HR research and advisory services, visit McLean & Company, and for data-driven software buying insights and vendor evaluations, visit the firm’s SoftwareReviews platform.

Media professionals can register for unrestricted access to research across IT, HR, and software, and hundreds of industry analysts through the firm’s Media Insiders program. To gain access, contact pr@infotech.com.

For information about Info-Tech Research Group or to access the latest research, visit infotech.com and connect via LinkedIn and X.

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Putting Young Innovators Center Stage: Leaders In Future Tech+ Wraps with ¥526 Million in Investment Intentions and 31 Enterprise Landings

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NANJING, China, Nov. 8, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — On November 7, the grand finale of Leaders In Future Tech+ — a documentary sci-tech innovation program jointly produced by China Media Group, the Ministry of Education, and the Nanjing Municipal People’s Government — aired as the Youth Innovation Carnival.

Since its October 3 premiere, the program traveled to 10 cities across China, selecting 100 teams of young innovators with an average age of just 28 from nearly 500 applicants. Fifteen finalists advanced to the finale, presenting breakthroughs spanning AI chips, optical interconnect, biomedicine, smart agriculture, and more.

To date, the program has facilitated ¥526 million in investment intentions covering 34 participating enterprises, and helped 31 companies reach landing agreements with 11 districts and counties of Nanjing.

At the carnival, the “Leaders In Future Tech+ Little Giant Transformation Plan” was launched, with 13 enterprises selected in the first batch to receive a five-module service system guiding them toward specialized, high-end development.

Behind these numbers is a media-driven innovation model: closed-door investment meetings were turned into open, transparent dialogues, connecting young innovators directly with venture capital firms, academicians, industry experts, and local governments — with the focus not on short-term commercial maturity, but on long-term growth potential.

The finale also showed how technology serves everyday life: non-invasive brain-computer interface demonstrations, low-cost bone-repair materials, and ultra-low-cost fresh-keeping cards that reduce agricultural loss — each a footnote to innovation with human warmth.

With Season One concluded, Season Two recruitment is now open to innovation teams nationwide via China Media Group’s official channels and the Yangshipin app (CMG Mobile). As the program’s message goes: put young innovators at center stage — and hand the future to innovation.

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GSMA MWC26 Doha opens with call to align on global industry standards and close MENA’s connectivity gap

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Operators, technology leaders, policymakers and innovators gather in Doha today for three days of exhibition, collaboration and debate on the future of connectivity across the Middle East and North Africa

DOHA, Qatar, Nov. 8, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — MWC26 Doha, held in partnership with Qatar’s Ministry of Communications and Information Technology (MCIT), opened today at Doha Exhibition and Convention Centre (DECC), bringing together connectivity ecosystem to shape the next phase of growth for a mobile economy forecast to add $470 billion to the Middle East and North Africa by 2030.

MWC26 Doha officially opened today, in presence of His Excellency Sheikh Saoud bin Abdulrahman bin Hassan bin Ali Al Thani, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of State for Defence Affairs. His Excellency Mr. Mohammed bin Ali Al Mannai, Minister of Communications and Information Technology, State of Qatar delivered a welcome address.

In his opening remarks, H.E. Mr. Mohammed bin Ali Al Mannai, Minister of Communications and Information Technology, said: “The second edition of MWC Doha takes place at a time when the requirements of telecommunications infrastructure are undergoing fundamental change. As artificial intelligence advances towards executing tasks through intelligent agents, the need for more resilient networks and advanced computing capabilities continues to grow. At the same time, global challenges underscore the importance of diversifying connectivity routes and ensuring service continuity.”

GSMA Director General Vivek Badrinath and ITU Secretary-General Doreen Bogdan-Martin took to the stage for a fireside chat. Mr Badrinath set out the key priorities shaping the region’s connected future, with a continued commitment to global standards keeping networks and services interoperable across markets, as well as a renewed push to extend connectivity to populations that remain offline in MENA.

Vivek Badrinath, Director General, GSMA, said: “Progress only counts if everyone shares in it. That means two things: global standards that keep networks, services and devices working across borders, and a concerted effort to connect the people who are still offline. Over the next three days, MWC Doha, alongside its co-location with ITU’s PP-26, will bring together the policy makers, innovators and industry leaders setting these standards and building these networks, to help make this vision a reality. As the ITU Plenipotentiary continues, we are confident that the enhanced dialog which our co-location has allowed will feed into the important conversations taking place.”

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Club Offers for Travel Enthusiasts in Germany

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BERLIN, Nov. 8, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Travelzoo® (NASDAQ: TZOO), the club for travel enthusiasts, announces five of many new Club Offers for Club Members in Germany.

Rigorously vetted and negotiated for us travel enthusiasts:

FROM €99 PP—HESSE: 3 DAYS AT A CASTLE HOTEL WITH DINNER IN THE KNIGHTS’ HALL
A crackling fireplace and historic suits of armor on the walls: a cozy winter evening at Staufenberg Castle. Included for us Club Members: a 3-course dinner in the Knights’ Hall, which is more than 500 years old.

€499 PP—TUSCANY: VILLA WITH COOKING CLASS & 6-COURSE DINNER
“Fantastic cooking class, wonderful wine tasting, excellent dinner.” Club Members love Villa Patriarca, which is why we’ve negotiated another offer. Save 50% for three nights in a junior suite compared to the market price.

FROM €299 PP—NEW 5-STAR HOTEL IN PORTO WITH FLIGHTS
Three nights in a prime location next to the historic city walls. Views of the Douro River from the outdoor hot tub. A special price to celebrate the opening of this boutique hotel: the offer regularly costs €580.

€89 PP—3 DAYS AT A BOUTIQUE HOTEL ON SYLT
A ship’s wheel on the wall and a historic nautical chart on the ceiling. Or Delft tiles in the bathroom and a tiger-print rug. Every room at Haus Noge is unique. In the off-season, we travel enthusiasts pay €89 instead of €267 per person.

FROM €399 PP—TURKEY: 1 WEEK ALL-INCLUSIVE WITH FLIGHTS
Relax on a sandy beach and soak up the sun at the start of the season in April. Included for Club Members: a sea-view room and all meals and drinks. There’s also a sports and entertainment program, from beach volleyball to tennis.

Are you a travel enthusiast? Join the club today: https://travelzoo.com

Who are we?
We, Travelzoo®, are the club for travel enthusiasts. We reach 30 million travelers. Club Members receive Club Offers negotiated and rigorously vetted by our deal experts around the globe. Our relationships with thousands of top travel companies give us access to irresistible deals. Our club and its benefits are built around the lifestyle of a modern travel enthusiast.

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