Gartner's #1 strategic technology trend for 2025

The Agent Era arrives now

Explore how Agentic AI is transforming industries through autonomous integration — find specific insights for Energy, Financial Services, Healthcare, Manufacturing, and Public Sector.

  • 33% of enterprise software will include agentic AI by 2028 (Gartner)
  • 5 industry-specific whitepapers available
  • 80% of customer issues resolved by AI by 2029 (Gartner)
  • EU-compliant and sovereign deployment

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Explore Agentic AI by industry

Discover how autonomous AI agents are transforming operations across sectors with industry-specific insights and implementation strategies.

What is Agentic AI?

Agentic AI represents a fundamental shift from reactive tools to autonomous systems capable of perceiving, reasoning, and acting independently to achieve defined goals.

Core characteristics

  • Autonomous reasoning — AI agents that analyze complex situations, make decisions, and adapt their behavior without constant human intervention.
  • Contextual awareness — Understanding and acting on real-time data from multiple sources, maintaining context across interactions and systems.
  • Goal-oriented action — Proactively taking steps to achieve objectives, orchestrating workflows, and learning from outcomes to improve performance.

How Agentic AI works in practice

  1. Perceive — receives request or detects event.
  2. Analyze — understands context and requirements.
  3. Plan — determines optimal action sequence.
  4. Execute — orchestrates across systems.
  5. Learn — adapts based on outcomes.

Why Frends

Frends is a European iPaaS built for organizations that need to combine agentic AI with strict governance, data sovereignty, and full transparency. Key differentiators:

  • EU-based data residency and full compliance with GDPR, NIS2, and the EU AI Act.
  • Hybrid deployment across cloud and on-premise to keep sensitive data inside your boundary.
  • Transparency-first design with complete audit trails for every AI-driven action.
  • Low-code, BPMN-style visual integration that both developers and business users can read.
  • Built-in human oversight and governance controls for regulated industries.

European digital sovereignty

European organizations face unique requirements for data sovereignty, regulatory compliance, and transparency. Frends is designed from the ground up to meet them — keeping data, processing, and governance inside the EU while delivering the autonomy of agentic AI.

Platform comparison

How major integration platforms compare for agentic AI adoption.

Platform Region Hybrid Governance Key strengths
Frends EU Yes Full Transparency & audit trails, hybrid deployment, EU data residency
MuleSoft US Yes Standard Large ecosystem, enterprise scale, Salesforce integration
Boomi US No Standard Cloud-native, AI Agent Studio, fast scaling
SnapLogic US No Standard Natural language building, generative integration, SnapGPT
Workato US Yes Standard User-friendly, SaaS focus, business team access