How to connect AI agents to enterprise knowledge

A MIT Technology Review survey of 300 data and AI executives shows that on average only about 34% of enterprise agentic AI projects reach production, with legacy data systems, security and privacy concerns, and missing knowledge and context as the main points of failure. Production leaders (with an average of 61% of projects moving beyond pilot) are stronger in knowledge capabilities such as semantics, and 55% of respondents listed data fragmentation as the top challenge to expanding agent knowledge access. Enterprises plan to prioritize investment in ingestion pipelines, AI-ready APIs, RAG, AI evaluation agents, and knowledge graphs to build a knowledge layer connecting data and agents.