Forrester predicts one dollar in five of business tech spending will go to AI in 2027. Global tech spending will exceed $6 trillion that year. Only 53% of tech leaders expect budgets to beat inflation. Governance gaps will derail flagship AI at three big enterprises. Unregistered agents will spread and cause trouble. Harnesses around models will drive three-quarters of AI platform decisions. Model choice will matter less than runtime and context control. Open-weight models will do much enterprise work on little spend. Only one in four context-layer efforts will support agentic AI at scale.
- $6T global tech spending in 2027
- 1 in 5 dollars to AI
- 53% expect budget to beat inflation
- 3 enterprises to derail flagship AI
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