A recent enterprise open source survey conducted by Ashnik with respondents from Southeast Asia and India reveals the expected rise and adoption of open source. The survey emphasized on the current state of enterprise open source and the impact of Covid-19 on the upcoming technology adoptions and digital initiatives. Conducted by Ashnik, a Singapore-headquartered leading open source solutions provider with presence across Southeast Asia, US and India, the report portrays some key insights on open source readiness and implementation.

“While there is an overall shift in the way digitalization is happening, Covid-19 has prompted an even greater need to keep the existing initiatives on track and implement new technology solutions to stay amped up. We designed this survey to understand how enterprise open source is being leveraged by enterprises today and in the coming 12 months. It is interesting to note that many open source led technology initiatives are a top-tier priority for several organizations,” adds Deepti Dilip J., Head of Marketing for Southeast Asia & India, Ashnik.

Nearly 83 percent of participants of this survey range from managerial level to C-level, thus throwing some key insights on decision making patterns, in order to speed up and go digital as quickly as possible. It also revealed that about 92 percent of organizations are already using open source today, with a mix of both enterprise and community open source.

According to the respondents, enterprise open source will be majorly adopted in the areas of Database, Analytics, Security, and IT Infra Monitoring

According to the respondents, enterprise open source will be majorly adopted in the areas of Database, Analytics, Security, and IT Infra Monitoring.

68 percent of respondents cite that container adoption will scale up in their organizations, while 72 percent say that multi-cloud deployment will see an increase in the coming months. About 81 percent of respondents state that open source database will be adopted in their organizations, and 58 percent say enterprise open source database will be the fastest growing database technology in their infrastructure.

Respondents also rated the various benefits of adopting enterprise open source in the coming months – 60 percent of which rate the security aspect of enterprise open source as the top benefit for their organization, while 57 percent of respondents rate the ability to attract new talents as a highly important benefit in adopting enterprise open source. 68 percent of respondents rate cost efficiency as their top benefit in open source adoption.

The survey encompassed 100 unique organizations across Southeast Asia and India along with industries ranging from BFSI, Power & Engineering, Technology, Telecoms, Government sectors and more. The motto of this study was to understand the expected rise and adoption of enterprise open source and associated digital initiatives in the coming months.