Futurum Group Survey Sees Increasing Investments In AI To Deliver Software
devops.com, Friday, January 23rd, 2026
A global survey of 628 enterprise IT leaders conducted by the Futurum Group finds that increasing investment in generative artificial intelligence (AI) (40%), followed closely by AI and machine learning (ML) technologies (39%) and applying AI to IT operations (37%), also known as AIOps, are expected to be the top three drivers for accelerating software delivery over the next 12 to 18 months.
As such, the survey finds the top areas of investment over the same period are AI Copilot/AI code tools (38%), AI agent development (37%), AI-assisted testing (37%) followed closely by DevOps (37%), automated deployment (34%), software security testing (31%).
Overall, a full 60% of respondents said their organization is now actively using AI to build and deploy software, the survey finds.