The Rate of Disruption State of Disruption Report Index (RDI) In the spring of 2019, AVANT launched an enterprise AVANT Research and Analytics has con- customer survey of 300 enterprise IT decision-makers ducted a study of the most disruptive who lead technology purchasing decisions. Respondents technologies changing today’s IT landscape, included statistically significant subsets from the Manu- including SD-WAN, UCaaS, Hyperscale Plat- facturing, Financial Services, Medical, e-commerce, and forms, Colocation, and Managed Security Businesses Services verticals. Data taken from the survey Services. Our goal was to assist our readers were used to help support the development of AVANT’s in assessing the rate of transition from one Rate of Disruption Index (RDI), which demonstrates the technology to a newer technology that is participants’ perception of how quickly newer technolo- either taking its place or supplementing gies are displacing older ones. For further details on the it. The “Rate of Disruption Index,” or “RDI,” RDI, please review the accompanying sidebar. represents the year-over-year shift in market uptake, as perceived by respondents to According to the survey that serves as the foundation AVANT’s State of Disruption Survey, con- to the State of Disruption Report, more than half of the ducted in the spring of 2019. respondents are less than fully confident that their com- panies are prepared to handle a cyberattack today, and to AVANT polled 300 US-based enterprise deci- mitigate whatever fallout might occur. sion-makers at either the C-suite or Manage- Respondents “Somewhat Prepared” or ment/VP-level in IT, security, or finance. To qualify for the survey, respondents had to “Unprepared” for Cyberattack be involved in choosing or helping the or- ganization to implement new data network, voice, or compute infrastructure technology including buying/selecting new tools and 42% 49% services. Respondents include statistically of 300 of 300 significant subsets from the following five industries: Manufacturing Financial Services, Healthcare/Medical, E-commerce, and Con- Extremely Somewhat sulting/Business Services. Prepared Prepared As part of the survey, respondents were asked to compare their current progress within a technology transition with where 7% 2% that progress stood at the end of 2018. of 300 of 300 That data was then processed through a mathematical equation that quantifies that progress. Somewhat Extremely Unprepared Unprepared Source: AVANT State of Disruption Report 2019 Copyright © 2020 AVANT Communications, Inc. 9