Stonebranch 2024 Global State of IT Automation Report

Now in its third year, the latest Global State of IT Automation Report reveals what automation-focused IT professionals across the globe have to say about the state of IT automation in 2024.

Automation is evolving into orchestration: 82% of respondents plan to update or expand their IT automation tools to better orchestrate complex, hybrid environments.

Developed in partnership with Censuswide, this research identifies the latest trends, best practices, and benchmarks for automation and orchestration across cloud, data/ML pipelines, IT operations, self-service enablement, and more. Key survey findings include:

• Democratization of automation continues to grow: 88% provide self-service IT automation to end-users, with many prioritizing self-service features in new automation tool investments.
• Companies prefer a mix of on-prem and cloud environments: hybrid IT usage has doubled from 34% to 68% in only one year. This approach is efficient and flexible, but can complicate automation efforts with legacy toolsets.
• Machine learning pipelines are evolving and growing in importance: 74% have integrated ML pipelines for genAI initiatives, highlighting AI's critical role in future strategies.

Download the Stonebranch 2024 Global State of IT Automation Report to:

• Discover the 2024 IT automation outlook across various global regions.
• Benchmark your IT organization's performance and efficiency against other enterprises around the globe.
• Better understand global trends in cloud and multi-cloud automation, as well as the ways other organizations are orchestrating workloads across hybrid (on-prem and cloud) environments.
• Learn best practices in data and ML pipeline orchestration.
• Explore how self-service automation empowers IT Ops, DevOps, CloudOps, and DataOps teams to execute their own workflows and enable organization-wide orchestration.

Hear from the experts! Join the research results webinar live on Thursday, April 11.