As organizations look to make data and analytics capabilities available to more stakeholders, providing the right tools, technology, and training for all employees rooted in self-service is proving valuable. A key benefit of self-service is productivity. Experts and generalists alike benefit from self-service technology to ensure faster ramp-up, fewer interruptions, and ongoing improvements in day-to-day tasks.
Data Management, Analytics & AI
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ESG conducted a comprehensive online survey of IT professionals from private- and public-sector organizations in North America (United States and Canada) between August 3, 2021 and August 14, 2021. To qualify for this survey, respondents were required to be IT professionals personally responsible for data protection and data management technology decisions for their organization.
This Complete Survey Results presentation focuses on the evolution of traditional data protection processes to more holistic data management strategies in which data is better understood and reused for other technical and business purposes.
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With a goal of broadening BI usage throughout the business, organizations are turning to advanced BI capabilities. Embedded analytics, mobile application delivery and support, augmented analytics, self-service enablement, low-code/no-code, and natural language querying are expected to rapidly grow in adoption to enable the business to better leverage data and empower more end-users to gain access to actionable insight.
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Business intelligence has long served as a technology-driven process for analyzing data and delivering actionable information that helps a variety of roles—from executives and managers to business analysts and data scientists—make more informed business decisions. With the understanding that the goal of BI initiatives is to drive better business decisions that enable organizations to increase revenue, improve operational efficiency, and gain competitive advantages over business rivals, it is no surprise that organizations continue to prioritize BI, as can be seen through larger investments and more end-user exposure throughout the business.
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There’s something so convenient about USPS Priority Mail. There are a few standard box sizes to choose from and each of them has a set fee, no matter what you put in the box. There’s no guessing as to how much the package will cost to ship, regardless of how much it weighs and how far it’s going, and your package gets to its destination in 1-3 business days, much faster than if you were to ship it normally. Many organizations are adopting container technology for similar reasons that we use USPS Priority Mail. Standardization makes operations easier for most, and improves speed and agility.Containers are units of software that are packaged up to easily run on a variety of computing environments. They are already widely adopted, yet still growing. Enterprise Strategy Group asked organizations what percentage of production applications/workloads run on each server type (e.g. containers, virtual machines, bare metal), regardless of where they operate. Respondents noted that today, 27% of applications/workloads are running on containers, but they predicted that in 24 months that number will increase to 39%[1]. For organizations on the path to digital transformation, container technology offers increased speed and agility for IT teams (e.g. DevOps and developers) when developing, deploying, and servicing applications. 34% of surveyed organizations say that the majority of their application development teams are currently building, or planning to build, applications that utilize microservices architectures (using containers) in the next 12 months[2].
With this adoption momentum comes a need for people to protect, optimize, secure, service, and manage container technology. Unfortunately, organizations aren’t always fully staffed to do so. For the 53% of respondents of an ESG research study who reported having a skill shortage in cloud and IT architecture in their organizations,[3] and the 77% of organizations that didn’t feel as though they had all the skills necessary when it comes to container backup and recovery requirements,[4] consuming containers as-a-service (CaaS) may alleviate some pressure and risk when it comes to container management. Adopting a flexible consumption model gives time and resources back to IT teams and helps them to focus on what is most important.
A growing number of organizations are using containerization and microservices to make their IT operations teams and developers more agile to develop, maintain, and support applications more easily and at scale, as a part of their digital transformation journeys. While this adoption can be game-changing for organizations, the process to research and find the right solution provider can be daunting. The ESG Validation Team can’t contain its excitement for containers and has validated several container-related solutions, testing them and helping prospective customers to better understand their value propositions. To learn more about these solutions, check out these Technical Validations and Reviews: Google Cloud for Gaming, Google Cloud for E-commerce, RedHat Openshift Container Storage, StormForge.
[1] ESG Research Report, Data Protection Trends and Strategies for Containers, December 2020.
[2] ESG Research Report, Securing Modern Application Development Environments, December 2020.
[3] ESG Research Report, 2021 Technology Spending Intentions Survey, January 2021.
[4] Master Survey Results: Data Protection Considerations for Containers Dec 21, 2020
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In order to assess technology spending priorities over the next 12-18 months, ESG recently surveyed 706 senior IT decision makers representing midmarket (100 to 999 employees) and enterprise-class (1,000 employees or more) organizations in North America, Western Europe, and Asia-Pacific. All respondents were personally responsible for or familiar with their organization’s 2021 IT spending as well as their 2022 IT budget and spending plans at either an entire organization level or a business unit/division/branch level.
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ESG conducted a comprehensive online survey of IT professionals from private- and public-sector organizations in North America (United States and Canada), Western Europe (UK, France, and Germany), and Asia Pacific (Australia, India, Japan, New Zealand, and Singapore) between September 9, 2021 and September 29, 2021. To qualify for this survey, respondents were required to be senior IT decision makers familiar and involved with their organization’s overall 2022 IT budget and spending plans.
This Complete Survey Results presentation focuses on 2022 IT budget expectations, technology initiatives and priorities, year-over-year spending change (overall and by different technologies), cloud adoption/usage trends, and the impact of ransomware on both IT and business operations.
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ESG conducted a comprehensive online survey of IT decision makers and data architects from private- and public-sector organizations in North America (United States and Canada) between May 3, 2021 and May 15, 2021. To qualify for this survey, respondents were required to be IT decision makers and data architects with knowledge of/responsibility for their organization’s analytics initiatives and goals.
This Complete Survey Results presentation focuses on the impact of public cloud services on data analytics initiatives, including benefits and challenges, as well as what matters most to organizations when evaluating these technology solutions.
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The adoption of advanced digital transformation initiatives has placed massive amounts of data at the heart of the business—changing the nature of how archives should be leveraged.
See the data behind these trends and more with this Enterprise Strategy Group Infographic, The Transformational Rise of Active Archives.
For more information or to discuss these findings with an analyst, please contact us.
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The digital economy is fueled by the seemingly unstoppable creation and insatiable consumption of data. To optimize costs, streamline management, and meet governance and regulatory requirements, organizations have traditionally archived non-production data on lower-cost storage tiers for years with little intention or need to reuse them. Things are evolving: The emergence and adoption of advanced digital transformation initiatives in recent years have placed data at the heart of the business and changed the nature of how archives can and should be leveraged. Rather than passive, “locked away” data sets, the past few years have seen the emergence of new requirements and solutions to make archives more “active” and leverageable to unlock business value.
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ESG conducted a comprehensive online survey of IT professionals from private- and public-sector organizations in North America (United States and Canada) between May 18, 2021 and May 25, 2021. To qualify for this survey, respondents were required to be IT professionals responsible for data protection technology decisions for their organizations, specifically data archiving and long-term retention strategies. Additionally, organizations were required to have an active archive strategy.
This Master Survey Results presentation focuses on the technologies and processes in place to support data archiving and long-term retention requirements, with specific attention to the impact of active archive strategies.
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Much of the data economy about individuals being amassed in our digital world is subject to consumer data privacy regulations and controls; yet on a near-daily basis, sensitive data is shared, lost, leaked, and breached in organizations. ESG recently completed research to uncover how organizations view the state of data privacy and compliance and how navigating these regulations affects their programs, teams, spending, and the maturity of privacy-enhancing and data security technologies.
There’s something so convenient about USPS Priority Mail. There are a few standard box sizes to choose from and each of them has a set fee, no matter what you put in the box. There’s no guessing as to how much the package will cost to ship, regardless of how much it weighs and how far it’s going, and your package gets to its destination in 1-3 business days, much faster than if you were to ship it normally. Many organizations are adopting container technology for similar reasons that we use USPS Priority Mail. Standardization makes operations easier for most, and improves speed and agility.