From Digital Platform Conductor to Agentic ITOps.
Gartner® Hype Cycle™ recognitions since 2022
Distinct Hype Cycles
Consecutive years in I&O Automation and in Monitoring and Observability
Hype Cycles in 2026, including Gartner’s new Digital Workplace Operations Automation category
The category grew up around the platform.
Gartner coined the term, then tracked it across its Hype Cycles year by year. ReadyWorks was named from the first Market Guide onward, and kept building.
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2021
Gartner coins the Digital Platform Conductor
Gartner describes the rise of tools that enable I&O leaders to manage strategically across their infrastructure, regardless of environment or location: one view across the estate, and the ability to act on it. ReadyWorks was already running that model for enterprise customers.
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2022
Transformational in four Hype Cycles, and the first Market Guide
Gartner cites DPC tools as Transformational in the Hype Cycles for Agile and DevOps, I&O Automation, ITSM, and Monitoring, Observability and Cloud Operations. Its first Market Guide for Digital Platform Conductor Tools names ReadyWorks a Representative Vendor.
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2023
Six Hype Cycles
ReadyWorks is highlighted as a representative vendor in the Hype Cycle for Monitoring and Observability, and the Hype Cycle for Data Center Infrastructure Technologies becomes the sixth to cite the transformational capabilities of a DPC.
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20242025
The record builds
Recognition continues year over year in I&O Automation and in Monitoring and Observability, while the platform adds the application context layer, the workflow engine, and the first ReadyAI capabilities that would become the agentic platform.
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2026
Four Hype Cycles, a new category, and Agentic ITOps
Named a Sample Vendor in the Hype Cycles for Infrastructure Platforms, I&O Automation, Monitoring and Observability, and AI in ITSM, where Gartner introduces Digital Workplace Operations Automation: platforms that sit one level above endpoint management, ITSM, identity, asset, security, and digital employee experience tools and use the data across them to automate and optimize operations. That is the layer ReadyWorks was built to be. The same year, ReadyAI and the harness around it make the platform the place where ReadyAI and your own agents work on the estate.
Same foundation. Agents on top.
What stayed
What changed
What opened up
Same foundation. Agents on top.
Hype Cycle for I&O Automation
Hype Cycle for Monitoring and Observability
Hype Cycle for AI in ITSM
Hype Cycle for Infrastructure Platforms
Named a Sample Vendor.
Hype Cycle for Data Center Infrastructure Technologies
The sixth Hype Cycle to cite the DPC.
Hype Cycle for Agile and DevOps
DPC tools cited as Transformational.
Hype Cycle for ITSM
DPC tools cited as Transformational.
Market Guide for Digital Platform Conductor Tools
ReadyWorks named a Representative Vendor in Gartner’s first Market Guide for the category.