The Spanish technology company Orizon, specialized in guaranteeing the continuous improvement of the performance of large companies’ applications, confirms that in 2026 the pressure to reduce costs, accelerate innovation and offer the best experience to users will turn technological IT performance into a transversal priority for organizations.
For this reason, according to Orizon, in 2026 companies will not only limit themselves to measuring performance, but also continually optimizing it, including mainframe and distributed environments, fundamentally in hybrid and multicloud models, increasingly conditioned by AI.
Orizon Trends that will mark the evolution
In this context, Orizon detects six major trends that will mark the evolution of IT performance and efficiency in the coming months:
- Expanding the concept of observability
- Unifying performance and costs
- The application of AI
- The extension of the DevPerOps methodology,
- Optimizing captured data
- The consolidation of the figure of the CPO with an increasingly recognized function
Regarding the expansion of the concept of observability, Orizon points out that many organizations still perform silo-based monitoring with multiple APM (Application Performance Monitoring) tools. This monitoring provides, according to the company, a multitude of metrics, but not the specific knowledge to optimize the efficiency and performance of the software on a recurring basis. The demand from companies is therefore moving towards platforms such as BOA to have complete visibility and traceability from the minimum software element to its global impact and, furthermore, the capacity for action.
The second trend is the unification of performance and costs as a result of the pressure to “do more with less”, which requires being able to measure performance in terms of cost per transaction and resource efficiency, as promoted by FinOps. However, according to Orizon, this methodology can be useful to control spending at a high level, but it is not enough to anticipate and eliminate cost overruns caused by poor performance at the level of software elements. On the contrary, BOA not only allows you to identify, but also diagnose and solve problems, and do so based on technical and financial metrics that CEOs and CIOs can consolidate in the same dashboard.
AI-based assistant
Regarding the application of AI, Orizon has gone ahead with the launch last October of the first AI-based assistant for improving technological performance. Called BOA AI, fed with the knowledge acquired by the company in the development of more than 80 large projects and trained with more than 5,000 optimization recommendations, this agent is capable of dialoguing with technology managers in natural language and offering them real-time answers, diagnoses and recommendations to detect, prevent and correct inefficiencies.
The fourth trend in 2026 is key in the progression promoted by Orizon’s DevPerOps methodology and consists of extending the understanding of the critical nature of performance taking into account its dynamic behavior in production, so that new development cycles are created aimed at optimizing inefficient software elements with a high impact on infrastructure costs and system performance.
For its part, the fifth trend is a result of the explosion of observability data and consists of optimizing the data that is captured and the way in which it is correlated and retained. In this regard, it is worth remembering Orizon’s competitive advantage since its BOA platform has a minimum history of 25 months and is capable of zooming in on the most relevant metrics. This functionality, along with the detection of gradual changes before they “show their face” and represent a problem, is one of the most valued by customers.
One of the trends is the unification of performance and costs as a consequence of the pressure to “do more with less”
Finally, the sixth trend represents one of the most relevant organizational evolutions in the IT organization chart: the appearance or consolidation, in the case of the most advanced companies, of the Chief Performance Officer (CPO). This figure is responsible for driving efficiency in infrastructure, applications and digital experience with functions such as coordinating the IT, business and finance teams to ensure that optimization is not a one-off project, but a discipline sustained over time.
According to Ángel Pineda, CEO of Orizon, “in 2026 it will become even more evident that performance is not a technical aspect, but a business asset, since it means the difference between controlled costs and unpredictable escalation, a bad or simply acceptable user experience and an excellent experience, and the fulfillment or not of certain requirements, both of the business itself and those established by regulations.
