Only 8% of organizations in the EMEA region have mature, integrated practices in place to ensure quality at scale in software delivery. This is one of the key findings of the latest edition of the InfoBrief “Quality at Scale: Excellence in an App-Centric World, 2025–2026”, conducted by IDC, a global leader in market intelligence, in collaboration with Noesis, an international tech consulting firm.
Based on responses from over 700 organizations, the study sheds light on the structural limitations hindering modern software delivery. Among the top challenges cited: technical debt, accumulated backlogs, and talent shortages—all of which significantly impact time-to-market and digital innovation capabilities.
The report highlights real-world success stories, including Canon Europe, where application ecosystem consolidation and a quality management framework resulted in improved data quality and reduced technical debt. Another use case features a leading financial institution in Portugal that embraced a Platform Engineering strategy to build scalable, modular environments for critical app development.
Key takeaways from the study include:
64% of organizations need up to 3 weeks to implement simple business process changes.
Only 37% of development time is spent on new features—most is lost to manual work and tool integration.
Just 9% report unified application engineering capabilities.
To address these challenges, IDC and Noesis recommend the adoption of modern DevOps, continuous delivery, and automation pipelines. Yet, the study notes that 63% still lack sufficient automation, and fewer than 40% apply Continuous Delivery best practices.
Generative AI (GenAI) is emerging as a key enabler. Organizations are leveraging GenAI in testing, documentation, pipeline automation, and code modernization—with quality cited as the top benefit.
As we look ahead to 2025, integration, observability, built-in security, and testing automation are the key priorities to streamline pipelines and empower development teams.
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