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Automation Value · benchmark + sources

The business case for automation,
in three sources —
and an assistant that reads them for you.

Everything behind the 668% three-year ROI finding, in one place: the 2026 Automation Value Benchmark, IDC's underlying Business Value study, and the hybrid-cloud strategy guide shaping infrastructure decisions. Open any of them — or just ask a question and get a grounded answer with the figures that back it.

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Headline findingsper organization
668%three-year ROI · 8-month payback
$14.81Maverage annual benefits
61%less unplanned downtime
4.7×deal uplift when automation attaches
The three sources

Read the material yourself.

The assistant below is grounded in these three assets. Open any one to read it in full — the benchmark is a web report; the IDC and Wiley pieces are PDFs.

2026 Automation Value Benchmark coverWeb report · 28 pp
CXO Technology · benchmark

The 2026 Automation Value Benchmark

Four findings on the business value of enterprise automation across NA & EMEA — ROI, resilience, team efficiency, the attach opportunity, and the VMware displacement moment — with a ten-point playbook.

html · cite freelyOpen report
IDC Business Value white paper coverPDF · IDC study
IDC · analyst material

The Business Value of Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform

IDC's in-depth study of Ansible Automation Platform customers — the primary source behind the ROI, payback, downtime, and team-efficiency figures (n = 15 organizations).

pdf · IDC #US49194Open PDF
Hybrid Cloud Strategy for Dummies coverPDF · Wiley guide
Wiley · strategy guide

Hybrid Cloud Strategy for Dummies

The strategy context for the value case — how hybrid-cloud patterns (on-prem, multi-cloud, and edge) shape the operational surface automation has to cover in 2026.

pdf · Red Hat editionOpen PDF
Recut for every seat

Three sources, six shorts.

The same three reports, recut into vertical, persona-aimed shorts. Each one opens on the problem that seat actually feels — and closes on the Ansible capability that fixes it.

For the CIO IDC · Business Value

"Your automation business case keeps dying in the boardroom."

0:52
Red Hat Fixed by Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform — the board-ready number: 668% three-year ROI and an 8-month payback.
✦ from the IDC study12k views
Platform lead 2026 Benchmark

"Unplanned outages are eating your team's entire week."

1:04
Red Hat Fixed by Ansible self-healing & day-2 ops — 61% less productivity lost to downtime, MTTR from 5.3h → 3.2h.
✦ from the Benchmark9.4k views
FinOps IDC · Business Value

"Nobody can show where the $14.81M of value comes from."

0:48
Red Hat Fixed by Ansible — four value pools, line by line: 61.9% from staff productivity, 29.5% from risk & uptime.
✦ from the IDC study7.1k views
Security & Compliance Hybrid Cloud guide

"Audit prep is still a spreadsheet and a prayer."

0:57
Red Hat Fixed by Ansible policy-as-code — a 27% compliance-team lift and sovereign-ready controls baked into every run.
✦ from the Hybrid Cloud guide6.3k views
Developer 2026 Benchmark

"Provisioning a box still takes two business days."

0:41
Red Hat Fixed by Ansible self-service provisioning — 68% faster compute (2 days → 90 min) and 43% more releases.
✦ from the Benchmark8.8k views
IT Director Hybrid Cloud guide

"Automation is trapped inside one team's silo."

1:09
Red Hat Fixed by standardizing on Ansible — one control plane across NetOps, DevOps & SRE; $9.17M of staff productivity unlocked.
✦ from the Hybrid Cloud guide5.5k views
Ask the assets · AI

Ask anything across the three sources.

Pick the role you're reading as — the suggested questions and the framing of each answer adapt to it. Answers are concise and grounded in the benchmark, the IDC study, and the hybrid-cloud strategy guide.

● Answers are generated by AI from the three sources above and may simplify or omit detail — open the benchmark or the IDC study for the full picture. Figures reflect IDC's Business Value study (n = 15) and Red Hat field data.

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