Benchmark Report Reveals Critical Quantitative Metrics for Enterprises Transforming into Software-Driven Organizations - Seite 2

Methodology

The research consisted of 1,659 information technologists (IT) across chief information officers, chief security officers, chief technology officers, and executive IT leaders who work in the aforementioned industries.

The sampling frame is designed so that results are comparable by sector or by country. The margin of error for all sectors is 5.4% at the 95% confidence level except for Automotive for which the margin of error is 6.2%—this is because of the lack of automotive industry businesses in Australia and Singapore reduced the overall sample. The margin of error by country ranges from 5.2% in the United States to 7.3% in Australia and 7.3% in Singapore at the 95% confidence level.

Insights & Data

The results of the commissioned research report, based on a global survey of 1,659 respondents, indicate that:

Speed:

• US organizations polled are most likely to get continuous or daily feedback from customers (51%) compared with 43% in Germany, 38% in the UK, 19% in Australia, 16% in Japan, and 12% in Singapore.
• 55% of US organizations are deploying code on a continuous, hourly, or daily basis. That fares well against the global average of around 39%, but well behind Germany, where 72% of organizations are deploying on a continuous, hourly, or daily basis.

Stability:

• US organizations report approximately 22% of their software launches or upgrades are delayed due to defects.

Scalability:

• 45% of applications run by US organizations have been built or refactored to run in the cloud, compared with 31% in Germany, 38% in Australia, and 37% in both Japan and Singapore.
• Only in the US are half of organizations (51%) spending more on developing new and/or refactoring legacy software than they are on maintaining existing IT systems. In the UK and Germany, just 43% and 44%, respectively, of organizations are managing the same.
• US organizations offer a mixed picture on scalability.
  • More than half of US organizations stated scaling their infrastructure to accommodate a doubling of workloads would require minimal structural changes (55%), compared with an average of 39% across all markets.
  • However, one-third of those organizations say doing so would result in extremely high levels of service disruption (32%), compared with an average of 17% across other markets.

Security: