Futurum Research Report Surfaces Increasing Devops Adoption Of AI
The Futurum Group, Wednesday, March 19th, 2025
A survey of 855 IT decision-makers conducted by The Futurum Group finds artificial intelligence (AI) is increasingly being viewed as playing a critical role in the development and deployment of software.
In total, the survey finds that 41% of respondents expect generative AI tools and platforms will be used to generate, review and test code, while 39% plan to make use of AI models based on machine learning algorithms.
More than a third plan (35%) also plan to apply AI and other forms of automation to IT operations, the survey finds.
Other priorities include software supply chain security (32%), cloud-native microservices and containers (26%) and modernizing their data infrastructure (24%).
Over the next 12-18 months, organizations specifically plan to significantly increase software security spend on application programming interfaces (42%), DevOps toolchains (35%) incident response (34%) open source software (32%), software bill of materials (30%) and software composition analysis (27%) tools.