Forrester surveyed IT leaders and decision makers from 200+ companies
The takeaway: Efforts to improve IT agility lead to significant business and IT benefits, delivering top priorities at greater speed and scale.
Improve IT agility to accelerate business success
Scroll to see highlights of a new Forrester survey on IT agility and learn how hybrid cloud helps companies achieve it.
The top priorities for firms today, according to the companies surveyed:
48%
Meet rising customer expectations
47%
Increased security
42%
Build/expand digital business
How can companies deliver on these priorities? Improve IT agility.
3 out of 4 firms consider improving IT agility a high or critical priority.
Hybrid cloud
can help
The top priorities for firms today, according to the companies surveyed:
82%
of firms using hybrid cloud management technology find it extremely or very helpful in achieving IT agility
67%
of organizations have implemented or expanded their use of cloud
50%
of companies use managed services to manage their IT environments
Top 5 tech used by firms deemed to be extremely or very helpful in achieving IT agility:
The benefits of becoming more agile
60%
said higher-quality data
47%
said real-time processing
44%
said faster customer data
43%
said increased security and protection
As a result of greater IT agility, companies report an average* of:
*over a three-year span
decrease in time to market of new products/services
decrease in cyberattacks
improvements on defects captured prior to deployment
improvement in application uptime/availability
improvement in application uptime/availability
improvements on defects captured prior to deployment
decrease in cyberattacks
decrease in time to market of new products/services
So greater IT agility means
Improving IT agility helps firms deliver on top business priorities, including meeting customer expectations and
increasing security.
Achieving it is possible with the right technology.
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