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2025 State of AI Application Strategy Report: AI Readiness

How does your organization stack up against AI leaders? Use our AI Readiness Index to assess your capabilities and gaps.

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AI Preparedness: Who’s Ready and Who’s Not?

According to the F5 2025 State of Application Strategy Report, 96% of organizations are implementing AI models, but additional research shows that only 2% rank as “highly ready” to tackle the evolving demands of their AI deployments.

This report introduces an AI Readiness Index that quantifies the operational capacity to successfully scale, secure, and sustain AI systems across environments. 

Do you have an AI strategy? Download the report and learn how your organization stacks up against digital and AI leaders—and what steps you can take today to boost your AI readiness ranking.

Explore Key AI Readiness Findings

Actively Scaling, Actively Struggling

This distribution indicates organizations are actively scaling AI operations while still struggling with significant governance, security, and infrastructure alignment issues. 

AI readiness landscape stats
Varied and Versatile

AI models are as diverse as the multicloud environments most organizations rely on for app deployment. 

100% of respondents use more than one AI model
Mixing It Up

Nearly two-thirds of survey respondents use two or more paid models and at least one open-source model. 

Graphs showing that Paid models = 58% and Open source = 42%
Security Remains Key

From firewalls to observability and enforcement capabilities, AI can play a key role in protecting data, networks, customers, and the organization.

71% of respondents have augmented security using AI

Update your AI strategy

Discover five strategic steps you can take today to help your organization not only become more secure and more efficient, but also more adaptive, more competitive, and better prepared to capitalize on whatever innovation comes next. Learn why it’s imperative to:

  • Diversify model use
  • Expand AI across application types
  • Embed data labeling practices
  • Align AI with security tooling
  • Treat AI as a platform capability


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