application lifecycle management

Opkey’s 2026 survey of 200+ IT leaders finds overwhelming appetite for agentic AI in enterprise application lifecycle management, with 69% projecting 5,000–30,000 hours of annual savings. ECI Research examines the operational pressures driving adoption, the governance risks that will constrain it, and what ITDMs and developers need to evaluate before committing. The reinvestment thesis — shifting freed time toward innovation rather than cost cuts — may be the most consequential signal in the data.