India, Dec. 2 -- 2026 will be pivotal for enterprise automation. The paradigm of scripting and deterministic control is still indispensable for compliance and reliability but no longer defines the frontier.

Vendors and enterprises are embedding reasoning and adaptive behavior into automation, testing how far they can push agentic capabilities without eroding foundational elements like trust or governance. This is causing markets like robotic process automation (RPA), integration platform as a service (iPaaS), low-code, and process intelligence to collide as boundaries blur.

The result is uneven progress: Innovation is accelerating at the edges, but core adoption is tempered by risk, testing bottlenecks, and immature runtime controls. Ag...