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With a platform like Red Hat AI, EMEA enterprises have the foundation to do exactly that - scale,
manage and secure AI on their own terms.

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1 Methodology: the research, conducted by Censuswide, surveyed 909 IT managers and directors (including
infrastructure and cloud infrastructure roles) and AI engineers (including software engineers in AI/ML, NLP and
LLM engineers and data scientists) from companies with 500+ employees across EMEA (in France, Germany,
Italy, the Netherlands, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, the UAE and the UK). Of these, 100 are from the UK.
Censuswide abides by and employs members of the Market Research Society and follows the MRS code of
conduct and ESOMAR principles. Censuswide is also a member of the British Polling Council.
2 ‘Strongly agree’ and ‘Somewhat agree’ responses combined
3 Almost one-fifth of respondents (17%) expect to increase investment by 51–75% while almost half expect
increases of 21–50% (45%) and almost two-fifths expect increases of 5–20% (36%). Less than 1% plan above
75% increase, less than 1% plan no investment increase or sub-5% investment increase and less than 1% were
unsure.
4 Respondents were asked to select the phase that most applies to their organisation:
16% of EMEA respondents are in phase 1 - building awareness of AI
26% of EMEA respondents are in phase 2 - preparing for AI
34% of EMEA respondents are in phase 3 - exploring AI use cases
16% of EMEA respondents are in phase 4 - maximising AI investment
7% of EMEA respondents are in phase 5 - driving customer value.
When asked about the future, 21% of respondents answered that they hope to be driving customer value in five
years’ time.
5 All ‘Yes’ answer options combined in response to the question ‘Do you believe your organisation is experiencing
a 'shadow AI' problem - i.e., unauthorised use of AI tools by employees?’
6 ‘Very important’ and ‘Somewhat important’ responses combined
7 For the 98% of organizations who come up against barriers when adopting AI, when asked to select a top three
the most common responses were: AI departments siloed from IT departments (30%), high costs of
implementation and maintenance (29%), data privacy and security concerns (28%), integration challenges with
existing systems (27%).