FEATURE across infrastructure, skills, security and data management. Businesses that have modernised these foundations are proving better equipped to respond to market disruption, deploy emerging technologies quickly and remain competitive in rapidly changing industries.
Despite this progress, the report also reveals a more nuanced reality. Content services maturity declined from 2025, making it the only category to regress. While cloud migration, automation and cybersecurity continue to improve, many organizations still struggle to organise, manage and govern the information these technologies depend upon. Without reliable information management, even the most advanced AI platforms or cloud environments risk delivering only a fraction of their potential value.
The findings suggest Europe ' s digital future will depend not simply on adopting new technologies
Europe’ s digital momentum is undeniable, but information management will determine which organizations become truly digitally mature.
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