IDC InfoBrief
Delivering Digital Success: Enabling Modern Apps Anywhere
A C-Suite Guide
Digital leaders are moving beyond developer-led optimization to platform-driven modernization.
Digital leaders are leveraging cloud native delivery pipelines that are already over 50% faster for half of all organizations. With 58% of businesses believing they must reinvent themselves in the next five years just to remain competitive, the urgency has shifted from developer-led optimization to platform-driven modernization to improve economics, resilience, and time-to-value.
What You’ll Learn:
How are digital leaders building a competitive edge? They are prioritizing a unified platform foundation across Software Development, Data, Operations, Security, and the Business, leading to increased investments in cloud native, AI-ready, and architectures designs that support data sovereignty objectives.
IDC research shows that while cloud native delivery significantly accelerates innovation, only 11% of organizations have reached the scale maturity typically associated with higher AI-era delivery speed. Differentiating your business is no longer just about the number of applications; it is about how you align modernization with C-suite priorities—including cyber resilience, data governance, sovereignty, and economics.
Many C-suite leaders expect digital reinvention to be supported by more AI-ready infrastructure that is modern, secure, automated, and data-centric across the datacenter, cloud, and edge.
Learn from digital leaders’ best route to success by adopting a platform engineering mindset; ensure you can enable modern applications with an AI-ready enterprise architecture; and prioritize investments that unify developer, data, and operations teams to create a control plane for success.
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