• Reply-backed study finds 43% of surveyed German-speaking executives plan to deploy AI agents, raising pressure to scale beyond pilots.
• Only 25% of AI projects move from proof-of-concept to production, highlighting execution risk in agent-based automation programs.
• Data quality, system integration investment planned by 98%; 94% target AI development and orchestration platforms to support production rollouts.
• Central governance emerges as a control lever, with 62% planning an approved AI-agent catalog to monitor enterprise use.
• Cost and productivity drive adoption, with 96% expecting efficiency gains; 89% see AI agents accelerating legacy system modernization.

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