Key Takeaways:
- What is Agentic-Ready Data? It’s the highest-quality data that is integrated, governed, and enriched for AI, automation, and analytics initiatives across the enterprise.
- Who should apply for the Agentic-Ready Data Awards? Any organization actively operationalizing AI, strengthening data governance, unifying data across systems, or using enrichment to improve outcomes – whether or not your program is complete.
- When and how? Nominations are open May 20 through July 24, 2026. Self and peer nominations are both welcome.
As organizations race to operationalize AI, one truth is becoming impossible to ignore: AI can only move as fast, as far, and as safely as the data behind it. The next wave of value will come from enterprises with a trusted data foundation that is integrated, governed, enriched, and continuously ready for autonomous AI systems.
That’s why Precisely is introducing the 2026 Agentic‑Ready Data Awards, an evolution of our Data Integrity Awards, designed to recognize the organizations building data foundations strong enough to power AI, automation, and analytics at enterprise scale.
If your team has been doing the hard work of building that foundation, we want to hear from you.
🗓️ Nominations are now open: Apply now!
⏳ Deadline: July 24, 2026
Why Agentic‑Ready Data Matters
Agentic AI marks a shift from insight to action: systems that don’t just inform decisions but initiate them. To work responsibly and reliably, these systems demand more than good data hygiene. They require data that is unified across the enterprise, governed, enriched, trusted, and available in real time.
What is Agentic-Ready Data?
Agentic-Ready Data is purpose-built to support autonomous systems at scale. It is the highest-quality data that is integrated, governed, and enriched for AI, automation, and analytics initiatives across the enterprise.
The Agentic‑Ready Data Awards honors organizations that are building modern data foundations to fuel AI, automation, and analytics initiatives that deliver measurable business outcomes.
2026 Agentic-Ready Data Awards
Think your organization is building toward agentic readiness? Be sure to submit your nominations.
2026 Agentic‑Ready Data Award Categories
The 2026 program recognizes excellence across seven categories:
- Agentic‑Ready Data Leadership Award
Awarded to organizations that have fully operationalized trusted data across the enterprise, enabling AI and analytics at scale.
- Unifying Your Data Award
Recognizes organizations that have connected siloed data across systems, teams, or regions into a unified, discoverable view.
- Operating in the Now Award
For organizations enabling real‑time, AI‑driven decision‑making through continuously refreshed data.
- Shaping Data for Purpose Award
Celebrates organizations that have transformed data into purpose‑built assets that deliver measurable business value.
- Gaining an Enrichment Edge Award
For organizations enhancing internal data with third‑party and contextual insights to enhance decision-making and AI model accuracy.
- Elevating Governance Award
Recognizes excellence in data governance – including lineage tracking, ownership frameworks, policy enforcement, and compliance.
- Lower Cost, Higher Impact Award
Celebrates organizations that have used automation and AI to scale data integrity, without proportional cost increases.
Who Should Apply for the Agentic-Ready Data Awards?
Over the past two years, Precisely has recognized organizations that are proving what’s possible when trusted data is treated as a strategic asset.
You don’t need to be fully implemented to be recognized. Your organization is likely already a strong candidate for the Agentic‑Ready Data Awards if you’re actively doing the following:
- Operationalizing AI, advanced analytics, or automation
- Strengthening governance, lineage, or trust in data
- Unifying data across teams, systems, or regions
- Using enrichment or contextual data to improve outcomes
- Winners are selected based on demonstrated progress and real-world impact. In short: you don’t need a finished program, you need a meaningful one.
Why Apply? What Do Winners Gain?
Data and AI teams do some of the most consequential, but least visible, work in the enterprise. The Agentic-Ready Data Awards exist to change that.
Winning gives your team validation that carries weight in boardrooms, budget conversations, and recruiting. It connects you with a peer community of data leaders across industries who are solving the same problems. And it puts your organization’s story in front of our global customer and partner network.
Past winners have used the our Awards to:
- Validate major AI and data investments with executive leadership
- Showcase measurable progress internally and externally
- Build momentum for next‑phase AI, analytics, and automation initiatives
- Share their story with peers across industries
What We Celebrated in 2024 & 2025 This year’s winners will join a prestigious group of past award recipients, including organizations such as DoorDash, BMW Group, Helvetia Group, and others. In the inaugural year, winners demonstrated how modern data foundations unlocked speed, scale, and confidence by modernizing core systems, strengthening governance, automating complex workflows, and using enriched data to power AI-driven insights. Many of these initiatives began within a single function or team before scaling more broadly across the enterprise.Explore the stories. In 2025, the focus expanded from performance to impact, showing how trusted data fueled AI innovation, operational efficiency, regulatory readiness, and societal good. From advanced risk assessment to improved public services, winners demonstrated that AI outcomes depend on data that is accurate, consistent, and contextualized. Read the full recap.
Submit Your Nomination
The 2026 Agentic‑Ready Data Awards celebrate organizations building the data foundations required for autonomous decision‑making, scalable AI, and measurable impact.
If your organization, or a Precisely customer you admire, is advancing toward agentic readiness, we invite you to submit your nomination today.
🗳️ Be sure to submit your nominations before the July 24, 2026 deadline
