About the Author
César Pedro Zea Gómez
A Fractional CTO who helps enterprises turn data chaos into profitable growth. With 34 years of experience bridging board-level strategy and hands-on technical execution, he delivers battle-tested solutions, not theory.
This document presents an extensive analysis of the paradigm shift towards artificial intelligence agents in the enterprise environment, intended to provide leaders in medium and large enterprises with a strategic guide to navigating governance, architecture, and value in the agentic era.
The document is broken down into the following chapters:
Executive Summary: Provides a high-level overview of the AI agent revolution, market opportunities, adoption data, and the strategic challenges it poses for companies, presenting key conclusions to inform decision-making.
Enterprise AI Agents: Platforms vs. Protocols: Conducts a comparative analysis between the two dominant philosophies for agent deployment: the open protocol approach (such as the Model Context Protocol - MCP) and the integrated platform model (exemplified by Dataiku - https://www.dataiku.com/), arguing for the superiority of the latter for the needs of large corporations.
Annex A. Theoretical AI Agents Fundamentals: Provides an exhaustive theoretical foundation on the concepts of intelligent agents, their architectures, taxonomies, and the fundamental technical and ethical challenges. This section serves as an academic reference for a deep understanding of the subject.
Annex B. The Agentic Bloom: An Analysis of 2025's Explosive Market Growth: Documents the unprecedented acceleration in the adoption of AI agents during 2025. It analyzes the catalysts for this growth, such as protocol standardization and the launch of enterprise-scale platforms by major cloud providers.