# Google named a Leader in The Forrester Wave™: AI Platforms, Q3 2026

> Source: <https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/ai-machine-learning/google-named-a-leader-in-the-forrester-wave-ai-platforms/>
> Published: 2026-08-10 16:00:00+00:00

At Google Cloud, we help organizations of all sizes build and operationalize complex agentic workflows with total confidence. By combining world-class AI research with an open, fully integrated AI platform, we give customers the flexibility to innovate and the foundation to deliver measurable business value.

At the center of it all is Gemini Enterprise, a unified platform designed to **power the agentic enterprise**, **meet builders where they are**, and **deliver enterprise trust by default**.

We believe this integrated approach is why Google has been named a **Leader** in **The Forrester Wave**™:** AI Platforms, Q3 2026 report**, and received the **highest score in the Strategy category**.

As agents become embedded across every part of the business, organizations need a unified platform. Gemini Enterprise serves as the front door to AI for your entire organization, removing the silos between business users, developers, and IT leaders by connecting them all with shared, universal context.

Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform is the foundation that enables technical teams and IT leaders to safely, securely, and cost-effectively build and deploy production-grade agents. Any agent built in Agent Platform can be deployed across your entire workforce through the Gemini Enterprise app, putting custom agentic capabilities directly into the hands of every employee.

By unifying enterprise data, frontier model capabilities, developer tooling, and IT operations under one roof, Gemini Enterprise empowers teams to transform products, services, and complex agentic tasks while maintaining centralized control every step of the way.

No two development teams build agents in the same way. Some work in coding environments, others rely on low-code tools, and many organizations use a mix of models. Gemini Enterprise is built for that reality. We offer a platform tailored to every team's skill set, enabling high-code developers to build complex agentic systems while giving business and operational teams low-cod and no-code tools to rapidly design and test agent behaviors. And with access to over 200 native and third-party models, alongside pre-built agent templates, engineering teams can move from prototype to deployment with speed.

True enterprise AI should extend far beyond text. Gemini Enterprise is multi-modal by design, meaning it natively understands, reasons across, and generates text, code, audio, image, and video inputs in a single workflow. By securely connecting this multi-modal intelligence to your enterprise data wherever it lives, your engineering teams can turn this information into contextual business experiences.

Trust is foundational to AI adoption, which is why Agent Platform is built with enterprise-grade governance, security, and observability by default. To help you scale with confidence, Agent Platform features built-in guardrails, continuous evaluation, and real-time tracking for costs, latency, and token usage. This operational transparency gives organizations the control they need to safely expand agentic workflows across the business. Builders can also leverage capabilities like [Knowledge Catalog](https://cloud.google.com/products/knowledge-catalog) to establish a universal context engine across the enterprise, aggregating metadata with zero-copy federation to improve agent accuracy.

We believe this recognition reflects our commitment to delivering an open, scalable, and powerful AI platform. As agentic systems reshape how enterprise software is built, Gemini Enterprise will continue to provide the foundation developers need to build with confidence.

Want to dive deeper into the report? Access the full Forrester Wave™: AI Platforms, Q3 2026 report [here](https://cloud.google.com/resources/content/forrester-wave-aiplatforms-2026).

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