IT leaders from across North America were invited to share their viewpoint and perspective on delivering Agile IT. The study reflects the responses and trends related to their ability to deliver on business demands and readiness of existing technology to support those needs. We aggregated the results into following major themes: Strategy vs Reality, Agility & Technology Readiness, and Culture, Structure & People.

2. Major Study Themes
Strategy vs. Reality
Agility & Technology Readiness
Culture, Structure & People
Study Overview:
IT leaders from across North America were invited to share their viewpoint and perspective on
delivering Agile IT. The study reflects the responses and trends related to their ability to deliver on
business demands and readiness of existing technology to support those needs. The results were
aggregated up and into the following major themes.

3. Survey Respondent Profiles
Top 5 Industries:
• Technology
• Construction
• Education
• Healthcare
• Finance
Role & Seniority:
CXO or IT Decision Makers or
Decision maker responsible for
applications and infrastructure
Company Size

4. Strategy vs. Reality
IT Executives are able to create
an effective strategy to
improve IT agility
59%
56%
Struggle to meet current
demands with technology
in place
62%
Lack the skills to support
the introduction of agile
infrastructure
42%
Have the right technology
to support agile IT but isn’t
optimized
vs.

5. How much time does IT devote to strategic initiatives to improve
business efficiency and market competitiveness?
• Most organizations
dedicate less than 30% of
time to improve business
efficiency and market
competitiveness.

6. Technology for Business Impact
Half of all senior executives are passionate
about using technology to bring products and
services to market faster
1/2
Do not have metrics in place to gauge the
impact of IT innovation on the business66%

7. On average, how long does it take IT to set-up and deploy a new application?
• On average it take
between 4-10 weeks to
deploy a new application.
• Larger companies with
2500+ employees average
8-12+ weeks to deploy a
new application.
Have processes in place to
identify and act on the
technology needs of the
internal lines of business
But,54%

8. Technology Posture to Enable IT Agility
Datacenter infrastructures
consist primarily of traditional
three-tiered architecture
(server, storage, networking)
63%
vs. Applying a Hybrid IT strategy
including public and private
cloud.
54%

9. Top Drivers for Change in the Legacy Data Center
The biggest driver for enabling
greater agility is the use of
automation to reduce /
remove manual processes.
84%
Ability to scale quickly to
meet business demands is one
of the biggest drivers for
change
81%
AUTOMATION SCALE FAST1 2

10. On Culture, Structure & People

11. Looking into the Future: Technology Investments
Maintain our current
datacenter infrastructure
‘as is’ for the foreseeable
future
32%
Plan to implement a Hybrid
Cloud Infrastructure
72%
STATUS QUO HYBRID IT
Plan to use public cloud only
for all new applications.
30%
PUBLIC CLOUD ONLY

12. Major Study Themes
Strategy
vs.
Reality
Agility &
Technology
Readiness
Culture,
Structure &
People