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Worldwide spending on artificial intelligence (AI), including AI-enabled applications, infrastructure, and related IT and business services, will more grow by 29% annually at least through 2028 and reach a value of $632 billion, according to a new IDC Worldwide AI and Generative AI Spending Guide.

The financial services industry is expected to spend the most on technology, with banking leading the way; financial services will account for more than 20% of all AI spending, followed by software and information services and retail. Combined, those three industries will account for roughly 45% of all AI spending during the period.

The industries likely to see the fastest AI spending growth are business and personal services (with a 32.8% combined annual growth rate) and transportation and leisure (31.7% CAGR). In addition, 17 of the 27 industries included in the spending guide are forecast to have five-year CAGRs greater than 30%.

 

The growth in spending is driven mostly by the rapid incorporation of AI, and generative AI (genAI) in particular, into a wide range of products, according to IDC.

“AI-powered transformations have delivered tangible business outcomes and value for organizations worldwide and they are building their AI strategies around employee experience, customer engagement, business process, and industry innovations,” Ritu Jyoti, group vice president of AI and Data Research at IDC, said in a statement.

As AI continues to evolve, Ritu said barriers to “AI adoption at scale will continue to diminish.”

IDC

While genAI has captured the world’s attention over the past 20 months, spending on that technology will account for only one-third that for all other AI applications, such as machine learning, deep learning, and automatic speech recognition and natural language processing, according to IDC.

The rapid growth in genAI investments, however, means it will outpace the overall AI market with a five-year combined annual growth rate of 59.2%, according to IDC.

By 2028, IDC expects spending on genAI tools and platforms to reach $202 billion, representing 32% of overall AI spending.

Even as AI reshapes the hiring and skills landscape, the technology itself will eventually just be embedded in all digital tools, meaning in four years most executives won’t even be using the term “AI.”

“Really, we’re seeing its use mainly in development, software, testing, quality, customer care service as initial use cases. So, it’s slowly getting woven into everyone’s work,” Ken Englund, who leads EY’s Americas Technology Growth sector, said in a recent interview.

IDC also found software will be the largest category of AI technology spending, representing more than half the overall market for most of the four-year forecast.

AI spending in the United States is expected to reach $336 billion in 2028, making it the largest geographic region for AI investment and accounting for more than half of all AI spending through 2028. GenAI spending in the US is forecast to hit $108 billion by 2028.

Western Europe will be the second largest region for AI spending, followed by China and Asia/Pacific (excluding Japan and China), according to IDC.

Two-thirds of all software spending will go to AI-enabled applications and platforms, or software that provides tools and resources for building, training, deploying, and managing AI applications.

The demand for AI platform software is expected to grow 40% a year over the next four years, rising from $27.9 billion in sales last year to $153 billion in 2028, according to an earlier IDC report. That report focused on the rapid pace by which AI platforms, such as Microsoft Azure AI, Amazon AI services, Google Cloud AI, and OpenAI grew last year, and how that growth is projected to maintain a “remarkable momentum,” driven by the increasing adoption of technology across many industries.

A large remainder of AI spending, according to IDC, will be on AI application development and deployment and AI system software (which provides basic foundational layers that enable bare metal infrastructure hardware resources to host higher-level application development and deployment).

Spending on AI hardware, including servers, storage, and Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), will be the next-largest category of tech spending.

“While industry-specific AI use cases approach 27% of the total spend by the end of the forecast period, the business functions that IDC expects will see accelerated AI investment are customer service, IT operations, and sales.” Karen Massey, research director for IDC’s, Data & Analytics research, said in a statement.

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Enterprises around the world are deploying more Macs than ever before, and IT leaders expect that trend to continue. However, despite the Crowdstrike disaster and sundry well-reported Microsoft security failures since, many IT teams also expect to invest in more Windows deployments, as well.

The latest SME IT Trends report from JumpCloud tells us the average tech stack for small- to mid-size enterprises (SMEs) includes 24% macOS devices (up from 22% in Q1 2024), 18% Linux devices (down from 22%), and 63% Windows devices (up from 60%). The report does not detail the use of iOS devices, but in a multi-device world of distributed endpoints and hybrid working models, iPhones are also seeing increased enterprise deployment.

The business case for macOS

The switch toward Macs in business is real.

Further, in line with a report earlier this year, JumpCloud reported 35% of IT teams anticipate increased Mac deployment in the coming year. And while 47% expect more Windows deployment, 16% expect Windows deployment to decrease in the same time period, compared to 8% who think Mac usage will fall; 25% foresee an increase in Linux use, while 13% predict a decline, the survey said.

Interestingly, in the UK, 25.3% of SMEs are using Macs — even larger than the 22.8% in the US, also according to JumpCloud.

The direction of travel is clear, it’s just taking some time. Why would it not? 

The battle of the boardroom

After all, everyone in the C-suite understands that power reflects budget and headcount. And for IT, the more insecure the platform, the more staff and the larger the budget required to manage it.

In a sense, Microsoft is a powerful executive’s best friend — at least in terms of creating that power balance. But it’s questionable whether that happy status will last forever in the wake of the Crowdstrike mess. 

The way I see it, the loss of billions of dollars as a consequence of supplier failure means CEOs, CFOs, and others in business have now seen the fiscal consequences of over-reliance on one platform. They’ve also seen previous disasters used as an excuse for increased IT budgets and headcounts. But what results have been delivered? If nothing else, this analysis will increase the number of voices at future board meetings supporting increased Mac adoption.

For the present, however, the JumpCloud report confirms we live in a multi-platform environment. That means companies actively seeking solutions to manage all these platforms as easily as possible.

Platform diversity is the name of the game

“The more our company grows, the more diverse our device mix becomes,” one IT director told JumpCloud. “Some employees only request macOS, some require Windows, and others are die-hard Linux users. It’s only going to grow more complex. The key is finding a solution that can manage them all.” (This, of course, is a reality that the recently-disclosed Jamf deal with Microsoft and Azure reflects — all the vendors in the Apple IT space are now actively seeking such parity.)

Beyond the talk about platforms, the JumpCloud survey confirms other emerging patterns. For example, three-quarters of SMEs rely on managed service providers (MSPs) to help with identity, user, and device management. In today’s business environments, MSPs help handle cloud storage, system security and management, and backups. Disincentives to working with MSPs include cost, and concerns around data security.

Keeping up with HypeAI

As the hype around artificial intelligence (AI) reaches a crescendo, it is also interesting the extent to which business users have become intentional around its deployment. Yes, 90% of organizations plan to implement AI initiatives in the next 24 months, but few intend to do so quickly. Indeed, 61% of IT pros think AI is outpacing their organization’s ability to protect against threats — and 25% of organizations have already experienced AI-generated attacks, the survey claims.

Not only this, but when asked how AI will impact their day-to-day job, 22% characterize the impact of AI as being much lower than they thought it would be. Thirty-four percent say the potential impact is moving slower than they thought it would, while 23% say it’s even faster than they expected. While it’s hard to draw too many conclusions from these data points, they do suggest that the reality behind the hype is beginning to dawn on then tech industry — perhaps the capacity to create fake videos isn’t such a great business to be in?

Everything is change, keep changing

One big takeaway that permeates the entire report is change. We’re using more devices, more platforms, and more services than before. Shadow IT is a growing problem, while the move toward MSPs is intensifying. Business leaders want good systems that help them control increasingly complex stacks, and the old war between incumbent technology and incoming change is being lost, one major Mac deployment at a time.

It’s no surprise. As the shortcomings of some platforms become more visible, expect to see others in the C-suite (CFOs, CEOs, human resources and business continuity experts) stand up against every growing IT budget, citing the security, TCO, and employee preference benefits of making such moves. The old ways are, it seems, rapidly changing; it’s way past time.

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A new study from Arize AI, a research platform that reviews public statements from large companies, found that 56% of the 500 largest companies in the United States consider AI to be a “risk factor,” according to the Financial Times. The figure represents a large jump from 2022, when just 9% felt that way.

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