TL;DR
It is argued that the key challenges are bridging the gap between personal and organizational memory, building effective agentic retrieval beyond naive RAG, and enabling organizations to evaluate their agents against their own data through self-serving evals.
This paper argues that genuine enterprise productivity gains require proactive agents: systems that surface relevant, actionable information to workers before they ask, and proposes the Context Graph, a live relational data structure that models enterprise entities, their relationships, and state transitions over time.
Data agents enable natural-language analytics over organizational workspaces, where relevant evidence may be scattered across databases, structured files, long documents, and multimedia. Existing benchmarks largely isolate structured querying, retrieval, or open-ended analysis, leaving heterogeneous evidence discovery, complete tabular outputs, and deterministic evaluation insufficiently unified. We introduce DataSpace, a benchmark in which data agents produce verifiable tabular results from task-local heterogeneous workspaces. It contains 410 cross-language tasks and 7,439 artifacts totaling 15.01 GB across CSV, JSON, SQLite, Markdown, PDF, and video. DataSpace also served as the official evaluation benchmark for the KDD Cup 2026 Data Agents for Complex Data Analysis competition. Each agent receives only a question and workspace and returns the complete requested tabular result. We construct DataSpace with DataSpace-Builder, an execution-grounded framework comprising cross-language transformation, constraint-aware relational sampling, modality routing and artifact rendering, and human review and task repair by 11 domain experts. A deterministic evaluator performs header-invariant column alignment, type- and precision-aware normalization, and order-aware row comparison. Across six recently released frontier multimodal models and five widely used agent harnesses, the best accuracy reaches 66.34%, while harness choice creates a 15.36-point spread with the backbone fixed. Multimodal evidence integration and joins consistently reduce accuracy across all six backbones. These results show that DataSpace remains unsaturated and identify key challenges for improving data-agent reliability.
Large language models (LLMs) and LLM-based agents are increasingly being deployed to automate complex workflows, promising to revolutionize data management and processing. However, existing benchmarks predominantly focus on simplified Text-to-SQL translation or data analysis, leaving the critical and complex domain of end-to-end data engineering largely unexplored. To bridge this gap, we introduce DataClawEval, the first comprehensive benchmark designed specifically to evaluate the end-to-end task completion capabilities of autonomous agents in real-world data engineering scenarios. Built upon production-grade code authored by professional enterprise data engineers, it comprises 100 rigorous, end-to-end tasks spanning five execution engines: PySpark, MySQL, HiveSQL, PrestoSQL/Trino, and FlinkSQL. Rather than non-deterministic LLM-as-a-judge scoring, each task is executed within a case-specific, isolated sandbox and graded by deterministic, rule-based scripts. Evaluating 16 frontier agents exposes critical limitations: The strongest model attains only 74.9 overall, and no single model dominates, as each excels on a different engine, revealing strict domain specialization rather than omnipotent proficiency. Thus, autonomous data engineering remains a formidable, unresolved challenge. We release our dataset, containerized environments, and deterministic evaluation scripts at https://github.com/Dicemy/DataClawEval/tree/master
Enterprise data analysis is emerging as a distinct frontier for autonomous agents. Compared with general-purpose interaction and software engineering, it operates in an open, ambiguous, and continuously evolving environment. These characteristics call for a data-agent architecture that treats semantics, methodology, execution, and evolution as first-class system concerns. To this end, we introduce QwenPaw-Data, an agentic data system designed for enterprise intelligent data analysis. QwenPaw-Data consolidates heterogeneous assets from warehouses, dashboards, documents, interaction logs, and historical tasks into reusable, governable, and evolvable analysis assets, then turns natural-language requests into end-to-end analytical workflows spanning data understanding, retrieval, analysis, report generation, and decision support. Its architecture decomposes the problem into three collaborative subsystems: DataBridge provides trustworthy semantic grounding through interconnected metadata, knowledge, and trace graphs; Skill-Hub codifies expert analytical methodology into reusable and verifiable skills; and Host materializes these evidence and method assets into controllable, artifact-centric runtime execution. Across these subsystems, semantics, methods, traces, and feedback are continuously deposited back into the system, forming a self-evolving asset flywheel. Experiments on public benchmarks and real-world industrial BI workloads show that QwenPaw-Data improves both verifiable data access capability and higher-level analytical quality, offering a practical foundation for reliable, traceable, and continuously improving enterprise data agents.