Partner list includes Accenture, Capgemini, Cognizant, HCL, InfoSys, KPMG, and Wipro. I think it’s fair to say that the generative capability of A2A is the generation of billable hours.
Yeah seeing that list is a red flag for me. Seems like a vehicle to attach their names to so those companies can pretend that they’re actually innovating in this space, rather than the usual mediocre services offerings.
As I understand it, it enables SaaS for Agents, along with the associated consumption and billing. All of those partners are going to have some kind of agent subscription for you to plug into your enterprise LLM of choice.
I see this as Slack bots 2.0. Maybe this will create real revenue opportunities where the original chatops didn't.
Adapting the capabilities of existing SAAS software for use by agentic AIs. This is not a small market. Anybody with any kind of software that does anything mildly valuable is going to look at ways to get in on the action via protocols like this. I know of several companies that have been exploring possibilities for this.