Agentic orchestration: Enterprise AI organizations know how to govern agents but still can't meter what they cost

Across 107 enterprises, agentic orchestration is not a choice of a single platform.The typical enterprise runs three orchestration platforms at once, and selects them for flexibility across models rather than affinity to any single one. Microsoft leads primary usage while Anthropic leads forward consideration by a wide margin. The AI control plane enterprises expect is deliberately hybrid, meaning it includes use of the leading AI providers, but also provider-independent technologies — and the risk they fear most from provider-resident control is not lock-in but the provider’s own security and permissioning limits. One in five enterprises still has no real-time way to stop a runaway agent before the bill arrives.This wave of VentureBeat Pulse Research examines enterprise agent orchestratio