Pega Named a Leader in AI Decisioning Platforms by Independent Research Firm

Pega's AI-powered decisioning and workflow automation capabilities recognized with highest scores possible in all strategy criteria

Pegasystems Inc. (NASDAQ:PEGA), The Enterprise Transformation Company^TM, today announced Forrester Research has named Pega a Leader in The Forrester Wave™: AI Decisioning Platforms, Q2 2025 (1). Pega earned the highest score in the strategy category, including the highest scores possible in the vision, innovation, roadmap, partner ecosystem, adoption, and supporting services and offerings criteria.

The report states: "Pega's approach is timeless — it aims to build a platform that enables enterprises to 'design for people, build for change.' The company is now using AI to do that, infusing it into every platform capability, including Pega GenAI Blueprint^TM, which enables users to generate full decisioning workflows and build AI agents using natural language. Pega is firing on all cylinders with its superior vision, innovation, roadmap, partner ecosystem, adoption, and support services."

On Pega's platform capabilities, the report states: "Pegasystems' platform excels in data modeling and integration, enabling enterprises to effectively create a simplified data abstraction layer for decisioning applications. Governance capabilities, including lifecycle management and observability, facilitate compliance and mission-critical monitoring. The platform's extensible architecture enables customers to integrate with enterprise systems and offers an on-ramp to Pegasystems' partners to add industry-specific modules."

The report also found that reference customers report "implementing the Pega platform broke down customer data silos, unified processes, and most importantly, enabled hyper-personalization for millions of consumers," noting that "Pega turns executives into customer-centric heroes."

This Forrester Wave report evaluated 15 vendors across 18 criteria spanning current offering, strategy, and also customer feedback. Pega received the highest scores possible for the following criteria: data modeling, data integration, decision testing, cohesive experience, lifecycle, observability, and extensibility.

Forrester evaluated Pega Infinity^TM, Pega's suite of solutions for AI-powered decisioning and workflow automation, including Pega Platform^TM, a powerful low-code platform combining AI-powered decisioning and workflow automation to help enterprises efficiently build scalable, intelligent apps. It also analyzed Pega Customer Decision Hub^TM, an AI-powered, real-time decisioning engine that delivers hyper-personalized next-best-actions to optimize customer engagement. Additionally, the evaluation recognized Pega Blueprint, Pega's genAI-powered design agent that transforms client goals and documentation into modern, agent-driven app workflows using Pega's best practices. These tools provide a comprehensive approach to AI decisioning for Pega clients to achieve measurable, optimized business outcomes.

This report is among Pega's many recent analyst recognitions for its customer engagement, enterprise AI, and workflow automation capabilities. Recently, Pega was recognized as a Leader in the Gartner® Magic Quadrant for Process Mining Platforms 2025 (2), Gartner® Magic Quadrant for CRM Customer Engagement Center (CEC) 2024 (3), and the Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Enterprise Low-code Application Platforms (LCAP) (4). It was also named a Leader in The Forrester Wave^TM: Customer Relationship Management Software, Q1 2025 (5), The Forrester Wave: Real-Time Interaction Management, Q1 2024 (6), The Forrester Wave^TM: Customer Service Solutions 2024 (7), and The Forrester Wave^TM: Task-Centric Automation Software, Q4 2024 (8). For more background on these and additional analyst reports, visit www.pega.com/analyst-reports.

Quotes & Commentary:

"Today's organizations need precise, adaptive AI that empowers both humans and AI agents to make fast, context-aware decisions," said Kerim Akgonul, chief product officer, Pega. "Pega's AI decisioning capabilities are designed as a surgical, statistical engine that continuously learns and optimizes workflows—whether it's guiding a customer interaction or automating a process. This recognition reinforces our commitment to delivering the right AI for the right purpose, enabling our clients to build self-optimizing systems that drive meaningful, transformational outcomes."

Supporting Resources:

• Report access: The Forrester Wave™: AI Decisioning Platforms, Q2 2025
• Solution background: Pega Infinity
• Solution background: Pega Blueprint
• Solution background: Pega Customer Decision Hub
• Solution background: Pega Platform

1. Forrester Research, "The Forrester Wave™: AI Decisioning Platforms, Q2 2025," by Mike Gualtieri with contributions from Sudha Maheshwari, Bardia Razzaghi, and Jen Barton, June 10, 2025
2. Gartner, Inc., "Magic Quadrant for Process Mining Platforms, Q1, 2025," by Tushar Srivastava, Marc Kerremans, David Sugden, April 16, 2025
3. Gartner, Inc., "Magic Quadrant for the CRM Customer Engagement Center (CEC) 2024," by Pri Rathnayake, Wynn White, Drew Kraus, December 2024
4. Gartner, Inc., "Magic Quadrant for Enterprise Low-Code Application Platforms," by Oleksandr Matviskyy, Kyle Davis, and Akash Jain, October 16, 2024
5. Forrester Research, "The Forrester Wave™: Customer Relationship Management Software, Q1 2025," by Kate Leggett, with contributions from Linda Ivy-Rosser and Faith Born, March 21, 2025
6. Forrester Research, "The Forrester Wave™: Real-Time Interaction Management, Q1 2024" by Rusty Warner, February 26, 2024
7. Forrester Research, "The Forrester Wave™: Customer Service Solutions, Q1 2024" by Kate Leggett, March 6, 2024
8. Forrester Research, "The Forrester Wave™: Task-Centric Automation Software, Q4 2024" by Bernhard Schaffrik, Pascal Matzke, Faith Born, and Kara Hartig

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About Pegasystems

Pega is The Enterprise Transformation Company^TM that helps organizations Build for Change® with enterprise AI decisioning and workflow automation. Many of the world's most influential businesses rely on our platform to solve their most pressing challenges, from personalizing engagement to automating service to streamlining operations. Since 1983, we've built our scalable and flexible architecture to help enterprises meet today's customer demands while continuously transforming for tomorrow. For more information on Pega (NASDAQ:PEGA), visit www.pega.com.

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