The next thing your endpoint manager manages is an AI agent
Gartner forecasts that task-specific AI agents will be integrated into 40% of enterprise applications by the end of the year. That’s up from less than 5%.
The systems meant to catalog what runs on a managed device haven’t kept pace. 46% of organizations automate endpoint inventorying and monitoring today, per Automox’s survey of IT professionals. That goes beyond a software inventory problem in the traditional sense. It’s the point at which software stopped waiting to be told what to do.
The Inventory Question Just Changed Shape
Software inventory answers a static question. For most of the discipline’s history that was enough. Software on an endpoint did nothing until a person or a scheduler told it to. Resident agents break that premise. They read local files, call tools, invoke APIs, and take multi-step action in the gaps between the moments anyone’s looking.
So the useful question shifts to not what’s...
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