AppDynamics Delivers New Research, Revealing 95 Percent of Organizations Have Changed Their Technology Priorities Because of the COVID-19 Pandemic
87 Percent of Technologists See This Time as an Opportunity To Show Their Value to the Business
AppDynamics, a Cisco company and the world’s largest and fastest growing APM vendor, released a special edition of its global research study, The Agents of Transformation Report with new findings related to the COVID-19 pandemic. The report reveals the pressures technologists are experiencing as they lead their organizations’ responses to the pandemic and how their priorities are changing as the rate of digital transformation accelerates.
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“Technologists are stepping up in their organizations’ hour of need, and it is now the responsibility of business leaders to do everything possible to provide these women and men with the tools, leadership and support they require to deliver first class digital customer and employee experiences”
The COVID-19 pandemic has required enterprise organizations to shift overnight to an almost completely digital world. Technology departments across the globe are now grappling with surging demand and mounting pressures to accelerate digital transformation strategies. They must deliver high performing digital experiences to customers and all-remote workforces at a time when the survival of the organization is resting on their shoulders.
Technologists are Under Pressure
The latest research from AppDynamics reveals that technologists are experiencing pressure from every angle as they mobilize workforces to operate from home, manage increasing pressure on their networks and applications, and maintain the security of the technology stack, while also taking on new roles and responsibilities.
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- 81 percent of technologists state that COVID-19 has created the biggest technology pressure for their organization they have ever experienced.
- 61 percent of technologists feel under more pressure at work than ever before.
- Almost two thirds (64 percent) of technologists are now being asked to perform tasks and activities they have never done before.
Of those surveyed, 66 percent of technologists confirm that the pandemic has exposed weaknesses in their digital strategies, creating an urgent need to accelerate initiatives that were once part of multi-year digital transformation programs.
- 74 percent of technologists report that digital transformation projects which would typically take more than a year to be approved, have been signed off in a matter of weeks.
- 71 percent of technologists point to digital transformation projects that have been implemented within weeks rather than the months or years it would have taken before the pandemic.
