by Stephanie | Oct 8, 2019 | Uncategorized |
More than two thirds of developers working on applications for IoT and / or mobile devices are currently optimizing their deployments for security according to Evans Data’s newly released IoT and Mobile Development Survey. This is especially true for those working with IoT implementations that also involve mobility where over 80% spend time optimizing for security.
The July 2018 survey also showed that over 70% of those working with IoT systems have suffered some kind of security breach within the past year, thus compelling them to scrutinize their security systems.
Authentication is a critical component of any security system and 78% of IoT developers report they currently use device to device authentication while 59% use device to service (note; developers could select either or both options). For authenticating or authorizing connectivity to a centralized service (cloud, edge etc) developers are most likely to use Secure Remote Password Protocol (47%) followed by Constrained Application protocol (37%).
“While it’s clear that IoT has a very compelling need for security optimizations,” said Janel Garvin, CEO of Evans Data, “there are also new advances that help developers secure their connected device projects. For example, we found that biometric authentication has come a long way recently with now over a quarter of IoT developers implementing some biometric authentication and another 40% working on projects that are planned to have that capability.”
Conducted every 6 months, the Mobile and IoT Development Survey explores developers’ activities and perceptions surrounding Mobility and Internet of Things. It’s focus includes topic areas such as; Demographics, Development Approaches, Platforms, Device Hardware, Enterprise Development, AI and ML, Security, Monetization and Payment Solutions, Technology Adoption, Language Use, and more.
See the full table of Contents here.
About Evans Data Corporation
Evans Data Corporation provides regularly updated IT industry market intelligence based on in-depth surveys of the global developer population. Evans’ syndicated research includes surveys focused on developers in a wide variety of subjects.
Copyright 2018 Evans Data Corporation. All other company names, products and services mentioned in this document are the trademarks and property of their respective owners.
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by Stephanie | Oct 8, 2019 | Uncategorized |
Despite the hype and predictions of dominance for low-code development environments, the latest Evans Data Global Development Survey shows little appetite for low code or no code development environments among software developers. One in five developers never use them and almost three-quarters (73%) use them less than half the time according to the recently released worldwide survey of software developers conducted August to September 2018. The survey, conducted in 6 languages across 5 continents also showed that only 7% use low or no code environments more than 75% of the time and only 2% use one exclusively.
For those developers who do use these type of environments to create their code, the largest plurality (12.4%) say they do it for the cost savings, while 11.1% believes it improves their productivity, and 10.5% think it eases deployment. However, the results were fragmented and failed to point to any single driver for the adoption of low-code development platforms. Lack of a dominant driver in a new market is often observed in technology adoption and typically persists until the technology matures and the market stabilizes.
“Low-code is another name for the types of declarative visual tools that originated twenty-five years ago,” said Janel Garvin, CEO of Evans Data, “and while it’s not actually a new concept it has now reappeared again in a new re-incarnation, so to speak. This time the dream of citizen developers arising to replace traditional developers has also returned. If the past is indicative of the future then it’s unlikely to succeed in creating a significant number of untrained amateur developers, and in the meantime the actual developers are not embracing the concept or the tools.”
Conducted every 6 months, the Global Development Survey is 220 pages of in-depth survey data and explores a wide range of developers’ perceptions and adoption patterns.
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About Evans Data Corporation
Evans Data Corporation provides regularly updated IT industry market intelligence based on in-depth surveys of the global developer population. Evans’ syndicated research includes surveys focused on developers in a wide variety of subjects.
Copyright 2018 Evans Data Corporation. All other company names, products and services mentioned in this document are the trademarks and property of their respective owners.
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by Stephanie | Oct 8, 2019 | Uncategorized |
Overall, the growth rate of the worldwide population of software developers is forecast to peak in late 2019 and into 2020 followed by a decrease in growth acceleration and virtual flattening of the growth curve in subsequent years according to Evans Data’s recently released “Global Developer Population and Demographics Study. However, growth rates for individual regions or countries vary as do those for major technologies. Japan, for example is currently flat and will remain so while South Korea, China, Vietnam, Colombia and Mexico are expected to retain a strong growth curve throughout the next four to five years.
The Global Developer Population and Demographic Study, now in its 26th edition, is the definitive developer population estimate, updated every six months. The result of extensive secondary research, the study finds 23 million developers worldwide as 2019 approaches with projections to reach 27.7 million within five years. Global survey data laid atop the population estimates show technology adoption figures worldwide as well as by region and offer insights into estimates on numbers of developers such as how many developers in each region are developing in the Cloud, how many use Blockchain, etc.
“Our projections for future developer populations aren’t solely based on linear regression analysis, though we have more than 25 data points to base that on,” said Janel Garvin, CEO of Evans Data, “We also include extensive data on the local conditions within each country such as GDP, computer products sold, Internet connections, tertiary education, CS graduations, and many more data points. This allows us a good deal of accuracy in making future projections about developer population and tech advancements in each country.”
The largest group of software developers is now between 26 and 40 years old (13.6M) which ties in with the tendency for emerging markets, where developers are typically younger, to have a stronger long-term forecast.
Conducted every 6 months, the Global Developer Population Study Vol 2, 2018 is 80 pages long with both population estimates and forecasts as well as tech adoption estimates by region and country.
See the full table of Contents here.
About Evans Data Corporation
Evans Data Corporation provides regularly updated IT industry market intelligence based on in-depth surveys of the global developer population. Evans’ syndicated research includes surveys focused on developers in a wide variety of subjects.
Copyright 2018 Evans Data Corporation. All other company names, products and services mentioned in this document are the trademarks and property of their respective owners.
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by Stephanie | Oct 8, 2019 | Uncategorized |
Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) is the top target cited by developers actively working with Artificial Intelligence, according to Evans Data’s recently released Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning survey. Over 58% of those developers are adding AI to their ERP software or have already done so. It is also the most cited area of existing software processes that developers believe will be totally replaced by AI or machine learning, with 80% believing this. ERP is business process management software commonly used in large enterprises that integrates applications to manage the business and automate many corporate functions.
Other business processes that developers forecast being replaced by AI are Human Resources, (69%) and Workflow Automation (67%). Adding AI to Workflow Automation is already being worked on by 44% of the active AI developers in the survey. The top barrier to adopting AI or machine learning into an organization is having to transition from legacy systems.
“One of the interesting things about the advent of AI throughout our society is the fact that the software developers themselves look to be one of the primary groups whose professions will be disrupted,” said Janel Garvin, CEO of Evans Data, “When we look at the types of projects that AI developers are working on it’s clear that in time the need for human programmers may be reduced through ever more sophisticated tools, or in some cases supplanted by AI altogether.”
The Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning survey is a broad topic biannual survey of developers who are actively working on AI or Machine Learning. It was conducted in October 2018 and released just last month and has a margin of error of 4.3% and contains 178 pages of in-depth survey information. Topics include: AI and the Enterprise, AI Algorithms, APIs and Frameworks, AI and ML Resources and Services, Security, Software Development Lifecycle for AI and ML, Image Recognition, Conversational Systems, IoT and AI, and more.
See the full table of Contents here.
About Evans Data Corporation
Evans Data Corporation provides regularly updated IT industry market intelligence based on in-depth surveys of the global developer population. Evans’ syndicated research includes surveys focused on developers in a wide variety of subjects.
Copyright 2018 Evans Data Corporation. All other company names, products and services mentioned in this document are the trademarks and property of their respective owners.
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by Stephanie | Oct 8, 2019 | Uncategorized |
The workload most commonly moved to a public Cloud consist of mobile apps according to 66% of Cloud developers in Evans Data’s newly released Cloud Development Survey. The survey, conducted in early December 2018 among active Cloud developers also found that workloads vary between public, private and hybrid Cloud systems. While mobile apps were cited significantly more often than others for public Clouds, database, security, and backend services were virtually tied for top workloads for private Clouds and IoT was most commonly mentioned for Hybrid Clouds.
When it comes to the business motivations for selecting a particular Cloud offering, agility was mentioned by 45% of the respondents and time to value for analytical initiatives was cited by 43%. Agility and time to value for analytical initiatives both juggle two key considerations in terms of timeliness and insight. Whereas agility allows a business to quickly pivot to address changing needs and opportunities, quicker time to value not only means that development platforms will provide information quickly, but also that organizations will be able to receive the business insights that inform their ability to forecast how their current strategy will perform in the short term and/or pivot their strategies to address changes in the market.
“Cloud used to be mainly about saving the costs of infrastructure, but that’s changed,” said Janel Garvin, CEO of Evans Data, “Today we see developers and Ops professionals alike are more attuned to the actual benefits that Cloud provides such as scalability and the enhanced flexibility of reach. This is especially true for workloads in public and hybrid Clouds where we see far ranging implementations in mobile and IoT dominating the landscape.”
The Cloud Development Survey is conducted twice a year and is now in its 20th iteration. It has a margin of error of plus or minus 4.8% and covers an extensive range of topics including: Considerations in Selecting a Cloud Environment, Building a Cloud, Cloud Service Evaluations and Implementations, DevOps and the Cloud, Orchestration and Automation, Block Chain, Security, Government Regulations and Privacy, Containerization, Microservices, Mobile IoT and the Cloud, Serverless Computing and more.
See the full table of Contents here.
About Evans Data Corporation
Evans Data Corporation provides regularly updated IT industry market intelligence based on in-depth surveys of the global developer population. Evans’ syndicated research includes surveys focused on developers in a wide variety of subjects.
Copyright 2019 Evans Data Corporation. All other company names, products and services mentioned in this document are the trademarks and property of their respective owners.
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by Stephanie | Oct 8, 2019 | Uncategorized |
DevOps promotes and facilitates the coordination between the software developers who create apps and the operations personnel who deploy them, but as the newly released Evans Data survey DevOps 2019 shows the two groups often have very different ideas. The survey of 250 developers and 250 IT operations professionals does show convergence in many areas such as continuous integration and application handoff, but very different viewpoints in other areas. For example:
• The greatest benefit of workflow management tools for IT managers is capturing end-to-end business data, while for developers it’s building dashboards to visualize operational data
• Fifty-eight percent of developers say they use tools not licensed or sanctioned by the IT team
• While the majority in both groups say the development team has the go / no go decision in deploying a software release, 41% of IT Managers say it’s the ops team – compared to just 22% of developers.
• IT Managers are more likely to say that technical software challenges are the main source of frustration in automating a network, while developers think it’s lack of a budget for new tools
“While both the development team and operations are trying to develop, release and maintain applications in a large enterprise environment for the common good of their company, they are basically coming from different ends,” said Janel Garvin, CEO of Evans Data, “Automation tools are essential for efficient interactions between the two groups to ensure that they come together in collaboration rather than confrontation – that along with an understanding of where each is coming from.”
The survey is part of a new Enterprise Survey series launched this year by Evans Data and created to look at enterprise development issues from both the development and operations angles. With over 130 pages of multi-faceted data, each point is shown from both the development and operations viewpoints and looks at topics such as: DevOps Landscape, Demographics, and structural organization, Provisioning, Application Handoffs, Automation Tools and Platforms, Continuous application Development, Integration and Testing, Workflows and Workflow management.
See the full table of Contents here.
About Evans Data Corporation
Evans Data Corporation provides regularly updated IT industry market intelligence based on in-depth surveys of the global developer population. Evans’ syndicated research includes surveys focused on developers in a wide variety of subjects.
Copyright 2019 Evans Data Corporation. All other company names, products and services mentioned in this document are the trademarks and property of their respective owners.
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