According to Salesforce’s new State of IT research, 79% of Canadian software development leaders believe AI agents will become as essential to app development as traditional development tools.
With Canada’s productivity problem continuing to stall, agentic AI such as Salesforce’s digital Labor platform Agentforce can be the path forward for software developers to be more efficient so they can focus less on simple, tedious tasks like writing code and debugging, and more on strategic, high-impact projects.
AI agents are poised to be the backbone of future development processes, allowing developers to focus more on strategic innovation.
The survey identified key challenges that are holding software developers back from building and deploying AI agents:
- 76% of Canadian software development leaders say their infrastructure needs updates and 51% say their testing processes aren’t fully prepared to build and deploy AI agents.
- 75% of Canadian software development leaders believe AI knowledge will soon be a baseline skill for their team, but only 62% say they’ve introduced employee training on AI.
You can read the research here.
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- This data is based on a Salesforce global survey of 2,000 software development leaders worldwide, which included 200 IT leaders in Canada. Canadian data one-pager: here.
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95% of Canadian software development teams will use AI agents within two years says Salesforce
According to Salesforce’s new State of IT research, 79% of Canadian software development leaders believe AI agents will become as essential to app development as traditional development tools.
With Canada’s productivity problem continuing to stall, agentic AI such as Salesforce’s digital Labor platform Agentforce can be the path forward for software developers to be more efficient so they can focus less on simple, tedious tasks like writing code and debugging, and more on strategic, high-impact projects.
AI agents are poised to be the backbone of future development processes, allowing developers to focus more on strategic innovation.
The survey identified key challenges that are holding software developers back from building and deploying AI agents:
You can read the research here.
Methodology
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