The Agentic AI revolution: Transforming IT support from reactive to proactive
In the ever-evolving landscape of IT support, a new player has emerged, promising to revolutionize the way we approach service delivery. Enter agentic AI – a game-changer that is set to redefine the speed, scale, and quality of IT services. But what exactly is agentic AI, and how is it different from the AI solutions we’ve seen before?
Let’s take a look.
What is Agentic AI?
Agentic AI refers to artificial intelligence systems capable of independent reasoning, decision-making, and, most importantly, action. Unlike earlier AI solutions that are primarily built to handle a specific set of tasks in a passive or reactive manner, agentic systems are designed to proactively seek goals, adapt to dynamic environments, and execute multi-step and multi-system workflows without requiring continuous human guidance.
In the context of IT support, this means replacing traditional knowledge base-driven and scripted bots with solutions that can triage, troubleshoot, and resolve complex issues across the technology stack end to end.
The new front door to IT: The integration of agentic AI systems into conversational AI
Conversational AI sits at the forefront of this transformation. Natural language interfaces have evolved from simple chatbots to sophisticated digital agents that can understand context, extract intent, and even empathize with users.
The integration of agentic AI systems into Conversational AI solutions has completely changed the dynamic of how engagements are managed. These systems can assess multiple variables, such as user roles, system impact, and historical incidents, to make context-aware decisions, much like a seasoned IT professional.
The real power of agentic AI in IT support lies not just in its ability to understand and communicate, but in its capacity to act.
Hyper-charging automated resolutions and self-healing agents
Automated resolutions and self-healing agents are reshaping the foundational principles of IT operations — from reactive firefighting to proactive, autonomous remediation. For example, if a local operating system query latency begins to spike beyond normal thresholds, an agentic system will immediately correlate that event with CPU utilization, recent deployments, or concurrent traffic loads. Based on learned policies and historical fixes, it will then autonomously take corrective action such as restarting a service or rolling back a problematic update — actions that will execute utilizing various system management platforms and doing so without human intervention or user disruption.
What’s next: evolution and continuous scalability
Agentic AI involves complex data retrieval processes and relies heavily on data collection, aggregation, and processing from various systems to provide relevant and timely context. In large enterprises, the dynamic, distributed, and oftentimes unstructured nature of the data poses a challenge in scaling agentic AI to a level where it touches all facets of enterprise IT systems.
However, this challenge can be overcome by enhancing current data and metadata models to drive interoperability, which is crucial for effective data retrieval and task completion across multiple systems.
A paradigm shift in support delivery
Agentic AI marks the beginning of a new era in IT support — one where the system is not only intelligent, but also intentional. By integrating the conversational AIs, autonomous decision-making, and action-oriented design, organizations can reduce operational overhead, elevate user experience, and achieve a new standard of service resilience.
The question is no longer if we should adopt agentic AI, but how fast we can scale it across all our support ecosystems.
At Atos, we are at the forefront of this transformation, offering cutting-edge solutions powered by agentic AI that enhance IT support and service delivery experience.
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