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2021 Digital Innovation Benchmark
How do tech leaders remain competitive in today’s innovation-driven business landscape?
We surveyed hundreds of senior technology decision makers in the U.S and Europe, ranging from CIOs and CTOs to architects and developers across a wide range of industries. See where your organization stands amongst your competitors in 2021.
Find out where your company ranks
In our second annual Digital Innovation Benchmark report, we explore how today’s leading organizations are using modern software architectures and other emerging technologies to enable business innovation.
Take our assessment to see where your organization stands amongst the competition.
Innovate Fast or Fail Even Faster
62% of tech leaders fear they’re at risk of being displaced by competitors who innovate more quickly.
51% believe their organization would be out of business in fewer than three years if they failed to keep pace with innovation – up from 37% in 2020.
COVID-19 Accelerates Digital Transformation
89% of tech leaders believe that creating new digital experiences to address COVID-19 business challenges is critical to their businesses.
75% expect to see an increase in IT/developer budgets over the next 12 months.
Enabling Innovation With Microservices
87% of tech leaders believe microservices-based applications are the future, and companies must support distributed applications in order to stay competitive.
33% of organizations have already transitioned entirely to distributed architectures, including microservices, serverless, etc.
Complexity & Challenges Slow Digital Innovation Efforts
The top obstacles to innovation are:
- Connectivity
- Security
- Complexity