Harness AI Agents for Smarter Business Operations

AI agents have emerged quickly as an exciting approach to combining the cognitive capabilities of generative AI with automation to dynamically execute tasks and complete goals.

To help you unlock the potential of AI agents, we’ve created the definitive guide: the AI Agent Primer. This comprehensive resource explains how AI agents work, where they’re making an impact, and provides expert tips for achieving fast and meaningful results.

In this blog, we’ll provide a quick overview of AI agents, explore their applications across industries, and preview insights from the AI Agent Primer.

How AI agents drive more enterprise value in less time

AI is changing everything, including automation. By combining these technologies into AI agents, enterprises are scaling Intelligent Automation across nearly every business process.

The AI Agent Primer focuses on enterprise-grade AI agents, but if you need a bit more background, hop over to our What Are AI Agents? blog post. In short, an AI agent takes in data, makes decisions, and performs actions to achieve specific goals. With process orchestration, different AI agents can focus on sub-steps (e.g., looking up information) or decisions (e.g., approving and initiating a product return) and then work together to take on larger, end-to-end processes.

AI agents’ ability to execute specific tasks and collaborate across bigger processes is how they drive such impactful enterprise value.

The ease and speed of creating AI agents are what make them so scalable for enterprises. Your workers, even those without data science or developer expertise, can use no-code tools to build AI agents. This brings AI agent creation to business users with pre-built building blocks, automatic safety guardrails, and intuitive UI elements.

The ability to quickly build, manage, and govern AI agents makes them a powerful driver of enterprise value, delivering results in a fraction of the time.

Where AI agents work across industries

AI agents can be applied virtually anywhere across the enterprise. The AI Agent Primer shares examples in finance and accounting, service operations, IT, and customer service. There are also opportunities for AI agents to automate processes in sales, marketing, HR, and other domains.

While the potential sounds promising, you might be wondering how AI agents can deliver tangible value in your industry.

Here are a few industry-specific examples of where AI agents are returning fast value:

• Manufacturing: Modern manufacturing has evolved into a highly automated and robotized industry. Assembly line robots frequently pick and handle parts. With AI agents, these robots can instantly recognize and adapt to changes, such as variations in part placement or adjustments in storage layouts, ensuring smoother operations with fewer disruptions.
• Banking: Many clients have specific needs, goals, and instructions for their investment portfolios. AI agents scan available options, evaluate the utility of different asset allocations, and focus on specific goals like optimizing returns or managing risk according to the investor’s preferences. Teams can then serve more clients more accurately and with fewer resources.
• Healthcare: Clear and tailored treatment plans drive successful healthcare outcomes. With AI agents on the job to analyze patient data, busy practitioners can be sure plans are personalized for each patient. AI agents can even learn and tweak plans over time to continuously improve outcomes.

If you’re interested in finding more industry-specific examples and taking a more detailed look at AI agents, check out our Exploring AI Agents blog post.

Use this strategic guide to AI agent deployment to build your plan

Chances are, you’re already identifying tasks and processes in your enterprise that are perfect for AI agents. You just need to craft a plan and get started.

It’s time to dive in and start building your strategy. This ebook covers:

• How to align AI agents with your business needs
• Tips for creating a winning deployment plan
• How to select an AI agent platform that’s right for your organization
• Key considerations for privacy and security
• Where to keep an eye out for fast-moving AI agent innovations
• How to get started on your AI agent deployment

The AI Agent Primer is your essential guide to launching a successful AI agent deployment. Ready to experience the most advanced AI agent solution? Request a personalized demo of Automation Anywhere’s Agentic Process Automation System and see how it delivers enterprise-grade impact.