A large global enterprise invested heavily in artificial intelligence to streamline operational decisions, but the underlying data was incomplete, siloed, and out of sync, leading to a lack of business impact. The problem isn't AI itself, but rather the data that feeds it. To address this, Agentic Data Management (ADM) was built to ensure that data foundations are autonomous, explainable, and aligned with business goals. ADM introduces an intelligent operating layer that learns from context, resolves issues before they impact downstream pipelines, and collaborates with teams. With ADM, data environments become self-healing, observant, and revenue-aligned, enabling organizations to reduce false fraud alerts, optimize decisions in real-time, align teams on shared metrics, and reduce waste. Agentic systems outperform static automation in complex environments, adapting workflows and remembering context, making them the future of data management. Organizations should focus on laying observability foundations, training data teams, starting with revenue-critical use cases, embedding outcome-driven metrics, and unifying their data experience to empower enterprises with autonomous, explainable, and revenue-aligned data turning AI into enterprise impact.