AvePoint recently published its latest report – The State of AI 2026: Scaling Trust, Control, and Readiness in the Agentic Era. We conducted the underlying survey (750 respondents from organizations across the Americas, EMEA, and APAC) and prepared the results for the AvePoint team. The new big theme this year is the rapid adoption of AI agents – and the associated lack of maturity in trust, control, and readiness.
Please, grab yourself a copy and have a read if AI in the enterprise is relevant to your work and future.
Key findings:
- Up to 1 in 5 organizations don’t know whether employees are using unsanctioned AI tools, a visibility gap that has nearly tripled since 2025 for generative AI (6.3% to 17.6%) and is even higher for AI agents at 21.1%
- More than 4 in 5 organizations are confident in their ability to prevent unauthorized AI-related data access, yet up to 72% of confident organizations still experienced an unauthorized access incident in the past 12 months
- Nearly 9 in 10 organizations delayed both agentic and generative AI deployments by an average of almost six months, citing data security and governance concerns as the primary cause
- 35.5% of enterprise data is now AI-generated; this figure is expected to reach 42.1% within 12 months, expanding the surface that governance must cover
- 46.9% of employees rely on AI agents daily or weekly, yet 88.4% of organizations experienced at least one agent-related security incident in the past year, driving investment toward third-party governance tools and emerging AI Agent Management Platforms (AMPs) as the top planned investment for the next 12 months
- … and much, much more. This is a very data rich report.
We hope this latest report provides tremendous insight and assistance as you navigate your AI journey.
Next action: get your copy of the report – The State of AI 2026: Scaling Trust, Control, and Readiness in the Agentic Era.