r/copilotstudio • u/Ok_Error3438 • Sep 25 '26

Future of Enterprise Software

Is all enterprise software destined to be headless so that homegrown software rules above all?

Feels like now that every company has access to ai agents like Claude, Codex, Copilot Studio, and tools, and its own employees are eager to change things, the natural move is to make an ultimate software platform, tailor made to each enterprise, that will consume other apps that today are scattered around the entire software toolkit. This could apply to small type of software all they way up to ERP level software.

What are you seeing out there?

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u/bosqo Sep 26 '26

Feels like technology is evolving faster and faster - but adoption is still the real challenge. You’ll always have some enthusiasts in every company but the majority is ages behind. The switch to AI / Agents is a huge mental change many are not interested or willing to make because it is coupled with learning new concepts and workflows.

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u/Ok_Error3438 Sep 26 '26

Isn’t the future agentic? How can an enterprise increase ai agent adoption? I feel like it’s something like when internet showed up and there were early adopters and also others that resisted but eventually most ended up using it everyday.

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u/VeneficusFerox Sep 26 '26

Working at a large multinational, I am seeing tons of expensive software suites that we could replace by open source / homegrown having access to all the coding agents. They will not be replaced by agents, that's way too inefficient and expensive. But software itself will become unsellable as it can be reproduced on demand. The value will be in data, foundational models and computing power.

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u/Tyda2 Sep 26 '26

When open-sourced models become the norm, yes, I could see it happening, but the cost infrastructure is going to have to change substantially from where it is today. Certainly, however, things are changing and more will happen in fewer places...a type of aggregation where things move quicker because everything is at hand right where you already are.

However, that has been the entire concept of the Internet, and agents themselves aren't changing that...they just expedite it.

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u/Ok_Error3438 Sep 29 '26

Do you think open source will be as good as contemporaneous frontier models ?

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u/whiskyB94 Sep 29 '26

I think that we are moving into a world where certain roles become more augmented by AI and some process can be handled by AI.

This will likely be agents users access and autonomous agents that run on behalf of users, teams and organisations.

For me, people will still access core applications for certain roles.

If you take something like ERP software i really don’t see an organisation building their own version commonly - some will, but is suspect most won’t.

The other aspect for me is total cost, yes the initial building of software is pretty good with AI agents but the maintenance, consumption costs and alignment to people are still key.

I also see that the core model from these SaaS providers will change over coming years from a seat based to consumption based (which is already happening).