Platform strategy 2026

The enterprise technology landscape currently faces a paradoxical trajectory regarding cloud-native infrastructure. While Gartner predicts that by 2026, 80% of large software engineering organizations will have established dedicated platform engineering teams, empirical data suggests a looming crisis of efficacy.1 Contemporary research indicates that up to 70% of these platform initiatives fail to deliver measurable business value, often leading to team disbandment or restructuring within 18 months of inception.1 For regulated entities operating under the strictures of the European Union’s Cyber Resilience Act (CRA), the Dutch Baseline Informatiebeveiliging Overheid (BIO2), and NIS2, this high failure rate represents not merely a sunk cost but a systemic risk to digital sovereignty and compliance postures.

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