The foundation agentic AI can’t function without
THE SO WHAT
Agentic AI is exposing that the real control point isn’t the model — it’s the middleware that handles tools, state, and policy across systems. CIOs should be standardizing on an orchestration layer now, before every team wires agents directly into core apps and recreates spaghetti integration.
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