It’s been more than 10 years since Gartner reported that between 60 and 80 percent of all IT budgets were being spent on simply “keeping the lights on,” and according to a new report from OutSystems, this is still very much the case today.
The low-code development platform company released their 2019 State of Application Development Report earlier this week, and their findings, reached with the insight of more than 3,300 IT professionals in the app development space, “broadly concur with industry analyst reports which estimate that ‘keeping the lights on’ activities consume around 75 percent of most IT organizations’ resources.”