September 3, 2026

Looking ahead, we expect aggregate ROI to slow as the “easy” wins from generative AI, vibe coding, and simple agent tasks (what we call task automation) become harder to reap. The real gains going forward will come from agentic workflows and agentic systems, which link individual tasks into full workflows or end-to-end business processes.

Source: AI and Agentic AI in 2026

Here’s a recap of current activity at Dresner Advisory.

Market Studies and Special Reports

We recently published the Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) in 2026 and the AI and Agentic AI in 2026 Special Reports.

We are putting the final edits on an Enterprise AI Special Report and are also working on the ModelOps and the AI Development Platforms market studies, all slated for publication in September.

All research is available for download via the portal. If you need help accessing the portal or would like to switch users for your organization, please contact Danielle.

Research Insights

Research Insights provide a concise analysis of the important issues that are front and center for end user organizations today. These are authored for our end user clients and are available to the vendors for internal distribution.

Recent titles include:

–       BI Thrives Beyond Executives: To Maximize Business Value, Give Power to the People

–       ‘Better Decision Making’ is Vague and Weak; Target Precise Business Outcomes to Justify BI

–       Many Organizations Face a Governance Gap

Welcome John and Jonathan!

We are pleased to announce two new members to our analyst team.

John O’Rourke has joined as a Research Director. John has been a fixture in the EPM space for many years, holding various product and marketing roles at OneStream, Planful, Oracle, and Hyperion. He also serves as a steering committee member for The CFO Leadership Council. John will be supporting our Office of Finance practice area.

Jonathan Sharr has joined as a Research Director supporting our Data and Analytics practice and providing backup for Finance as well. Jonathan has been a long-time member of Dresner’s Data Leader service has served on the user side with roles at Middlesex Health, Dorel Juvenile, and AlerisLife.

Both Jonathan and John will be joining vendor briefings and other engagements effective immediately.

Mid-Year Data Collection

If you’ve completed your vendor survey, you should have received an email from Michelle with a dedicated link to the end user survey. Please distribute the survey link to your customers and encourage their participation – we recommend broad and direct distribution methods such as an email campaign.

The data we collect during this program supports the 4Q26 and 1Q27 reports, including Embedded BI, Supply Chain Planning and Analytics, Workforce Planning and Analytics, Agentic AI, and a new FinOps section. It also covers all Analytical Data Infrastructure topics including Data Engineering, Data Catalog, Data Lakes/Data Warehouse, Data Observability, Data Quality Management, and Semantic Layer/Ontologies

If you have any questions or need help, please reach out to Michelle directly (michelle@dresneradvisory.com).

We appreciate your ongoing support!