IT organizations are facing a lot of pressure, including AI adoption, agentic AI, supply chain woes, price increases, shifting vendor landscapes, and new AI based cybersecurity threats.
The challenge isn’t just the volume of change—it’s knowing where to begin. Many organizations are operating from roadmaps that were built for a different reality, leaving leaders caught between the urgency to act and the uncertainty of what comes next.
When everything feels like a priority, it’s easy to become paralyzed. The organizations making progress aren’t trying to solve everything at once—they’re taking a step back, reassessing their current state, aligning technology investments to business outcomes, and building a practical roadmap that balances immediate needs with long-term transformation.
In fact, many organizations paused last year, playing it safe until the landscape became clearer. Now they are in year two, facing the same challenges: AI is here, prices aren’t dropping, supply chains aren’t recovering. And standing by while their competitors succeed with AI is only deepening their frustration.
According to Deloitte’s State of AI in the Enterprise 2026 report, a little over one third of companies (34%) are starting to use AI to deeply transform their businesses. Thirty percent (30%) are actually redesigning key processes around AI. And the remaining are only using AI at a surface level, which means they are using AI tools, but making little or no changes to underlying businesses processes.
Where does your company fall? What about your competitors? The truth is, there is a cost to doing nothing, and it’s compounding.
Setting up your organization for success
Organizations often use assessments as a way to evaluate their current environments and set a path forward in line with strategic plans. Given today’s pressures and challenges, here are five areas where we see customers focusing their efforts:
Site Reliability Engineering (SRE)
As organizations accelerate AI adoption, modernize infrastructure, migrate workloads, and rethink operating models, technology complexity continues to increase. Unfortunately, many IT organizations are still structured around traditional silos, where infrastructure, cloud, security, networking, applications, and support teams operate independently. The result is slower delivery, inconsistent service experiences, operational inefficiencies, and growing frustration among business stakeholders.
This is why Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) has become more critical than ever.
A mature SRE function provides cradle-to-grave ownership of technology services—from design and deployment through ongoing operations, optimization, and continuous improvement. Rather than focusing solely on infrastructure components, SRE teams align around business services and application outcomes, ensuring that technology decisions are measured by their impact on users, customers, and the business.
SRE assessments help organizations identify operational gaps, eliminate organizational silos, establish service ownership models, and create a roadmap for improving reliability, performance, observability, automation, and supportability. By bringing infrastructure, cloud, security, networking, and application teams together around common service-level objectives (SLOs), organizations can improve customer experiences, accelerate innovation, and reduce operational risk.
As AI, cloud, and digital transformation initiatives continue to reshape the enterprise, organizations with mature SRE capabilities will be better positioned to support both business leaders and application owners—delivering resilient, scalable, and continuously improving services rather than simply managing technology components.
Data Governance
Whatever your future plans are, they will center around your data. Data is the foundation from which everything else is built, especially when it comes to agentic AI. According to McKinsey, 80% of companies surveyed cited data limitations as a roadblock to scaling agentic AI.
Whether you are evaluating modern data platforms and storage strategies or developing data governance for AI systems, including building the right team and roles, guided assessments can help you think through key issues that will help you avoid costly mistakes and enable agentic AI capabilities.
Modern Infrastructure
For many IT leaders, the immediate challenge is balancing the demands of today’s business with the need to prepare for tomorrow’s workloads. Critical applications must remain stable and performant while organizations modernize their technology foundations to support AI, automation, and emerging digital initiatives.
At the same time, the infrastructure landscape is experiencing unprecedented disruption. Rapid advances in AI, evolving vendor strategies, increasing costs, and changing consumption models are forcing organizations to reexamine long-held assumptions about where workloads should run. As a result, many enterprises are revisiting their public cloud strategies to determine which workloads can be accelerated through cloud-native services and AI capabilities, while simultaneously reassessing their private cloud and edge computing investments to optimize performance, sovereignty, latency, security, and cost.
Infrastructure assessments help organizations navigate these decisions with confidence. Rather than simply evaluating the current state, they identify opportunities to optimize existing investments, align infrastructure strategies to business outcomes, and create actionable roadmaps for modernization. These assessments can help determine the right balance of public cloud, private cloud, colocation, and edge computing resources while identifying the changes required to support future AI workloads—whether those capabilities are delivered through hyperscale cloud providers, managed AI services, or purpose-built infrastructure environments.
Security
Artificial intelligence is completely reshaping cybersecurity for everyone, including the attackers. According to Crowdstrike, hackers using AI increased their attacks by 89% in 2025. These AI tools make even novice hackers incredibly dangerous.
But security in the AI age is about more than just fending off attacks. It’s about ensuring you have the governance and protection needed to truly scale agentic AI capabilities across your environment. According to Deloitte, only 1 in 5 organizations today have a mature enough model to handle autonomous agents.
Taking stock of your current security capabilities (and shortcomings) is a critical first step in building a plan to strengthen your security posture in the AI age.
Partnerships
As we move forward with AI, the ride will only get more exciting—and more nail-biting at the same time. The thrill you experience will depend largely on who you share the ride with. This makes your partnerships even more important than they are today. Whether that’s selecting providers for your cloud strategy, cybersecurity solutions, private Cloud or edge infrastructure (such as determining your Broadcom private cloud strategy), making sure you have the technology, people and process in place to unlock new capabilities will be key to your future success.
In Closing
Technology leaders are navigating unprecedented change. AI, cybersecurity threats, cloud economics, evolving vendor strategies, and rising business expectations are forcing organizations to rethink their technology roadmaps and operating models. While there is plenty of noise surrounding what organizations should do next, the real challenge is determining which investments will drive meaningful business outcomes and which are simply distractions.
What is clear is that there is a cost to doing nothing. Organizations that fail to periodically reassess their strategy, infrastructure, operations, and security posture often accumulate technical debt, increase operational risk, and miss opportunities to innovate. Effective assessments provide an objective view of the current state and deliver actionable, outcome-driven roadmaps that help organizations move forward with confidence and clarity.
If your team is trying to figure out where to begin, get in touch with us or check out our complete list of offerings at eplus.com/assessments. Gain clarity and devise a strategy that drives transformation.