{
  "id": 2156194,
  "title": "Report: Just 3 sectors aiding AI adoption poised to grow from it",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/20/report-just-3-sectors-aiding-ai-adoption-poised-to-grow-from-it",
  "topic": "ai",
  "section": "AI",
  "published": "2026-08-20T14:28:41.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Silicon Republic",
    "slug": "silicon-republic",
    "url": "https://www.siliconrepublic.com/enterprise/report-only-sectors-aiding-ai-adoption-poised-for-sure-growth"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "According to market research firm Forrester, only three sectors – infrastructure, data and AI, and identity, access and network security – are likely to grow significantly due to AI adoption. While worries of a \"SaaSpocalypse\" may be misplaced, Forrester's data-driven AI disruption model reveals that AI will have a non-uniform impact on various technology markets. Many enterprise software categories affected by AI are expected to be reshaped rather than displaced, as support sectors will remain relevant despite disruption. These sectors are those providing infrastructure, data, governance, trust, and security capabilities necessary for AI adoption. Conversely, skills-based services such as technology implementation, software development, creative services, localisation, and training are anticipated to face disruption as AI assumes tasks traditionally reliant on human knowledge. Forrester's vice-president and principal analyst, Craig Le Clair, emphasized that AI's benefits will not be distributed evenly across technology markets, with only the aforementioned three sectors positioned for clear growth. Ted Schadler, another co-author of the study, highlighted the challenge for technology and service providers to understand both the advancement of AI and its impact on market economics. Forrester's new model examines AI's influence on 17 technology and service categories in over 200 markets, considering factors like AI substitutability, labour intensity, support for agentic workloads, commercial models, data and trust advantages, and more.",
  "summary": "‘Only markets in three categories – infrastructure; data and AI; and identity, access and network security – are broadly positioned for clear growth.’ Read more: Report: Just 3 sectors aiding AI adoption poised to grow from it",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
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  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}