Last week, I joined an analyst panel at PlatformCon 2025 in New York City. Despite its modest size, the conference made a significant impact, showcasing vendor booths from industry giants such as Google as well as innovative startups.

No one can deny the impact that AI is having on software development … and we are just getting started. Generative AI has already made a tremendous splash, and new AI agent technologies hold promise. These will take AI to a new level and deliver complete, autonomous capabilities for creating, testing, and delivering applications. There’s just too much innovation happening all at once to be casually monitoring this market — I need to be all in.

The ServiceNow Knowledge 2025 event unveiled ambitious advancements in AI-driven enterprise technology, with a focus on autonomous workflows, unified data platforms, and human-machine collaboration. Key announcements included the launch of the AI Control Tower for managing AI agents, the expansion of Workflow Data Fabric to unify disparate data sources, and the intent to acquire data.world […]

In our evaluation of value stream management (VSM) providers, we identified the most significant ones and researched, analyzed, and scored them. This report shows how each provider measures up and helps you select the right one for your needs.

An internal developer portal (IDP) is a framework for building DevOps platforms that offer discoverable, self-service IT infrastructure and automation services, helping developers manage IT services efficiently. Learn how IDPs like Backstage can help streamline workflows, reduce context switching, and enhance governance among developers.

Internal developer portals (IDPs) are frameworks for building DevOps platforms that offer discoverable self-service IT infrastructure and automation services. Used by firms like American Airlines, Ericsson, and IKEA, IDPs’ popularity expanded after Spotify donated its Backstage internal IDP to the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) in 2020. Interest in IDPs as DevOps platform foundations that deliver self-service infrastructure, automation, best practices, and metrics has since grown rapidly. Platform, infrastructure, and software engineering leaders should read this report to explore current IDP options and their benefits for scaling DevOps efforts .

With feature management, engineering teams can engage in the practice of progressive delivery, where features are deployed with flags turned off, tested in production, and then gradually turned on to a progressively larger audience of users until the new feature is completely released. This mechanism can be used for new features, but the most common use case is safely managing continuous updates.

Learn about the four key phases of the development, security, and operations (DevSecOps) journey (prepare, crawl, walk, and run) as well as the best practices in each phase to either jump-start your transformation or move to the next level.Key takeaways: Learn the four DevSecOps phases.Learn the role that people, process, technology, and governance play at each phase.Learn how to get started or level up on your journey!Target audience level: all levels

Software that is not written with the needs of people with visual, auditory, motor, and cognitive disabilities in mind blocks potential and current customers from using your products and services. Imagine what you would do to get 1.3 billion more customers.

Forrester’s clients continue to inquire about trends in software development. So in Forrester’s Developer Survey, 2024, we asked software developers from around the world about their technology adoption, drivers of adoption, and use of development technologies. In this data-driven report, we highlight some critical insights from this survey. Development strategists and leaders can use this report to understand the current state and trajectory of enterprise software development.