Conducted by the analytical company Juniper Research, a survey of companies with more than 10 thousand people showed that 65% of them are considering or actively engaged in the processes of implementation in their work blockchain technology. At the same time last year this answer was given by 54% of respondents.
About a quarter of the companies gave the introduction of the technology of chance, moved from the stage of proof of concept to test runs and commissioning of the solutions in operation. Although in 2017 proposed ideas 34% not concerned payments was 15%, mostly in the areas of logistics, customer verification and smart contracts.
About half of survey participants consider as the main network blockchain Ethereum, which may indicate the potential for development in this ecosystem of dApps. However, all companies that spent more than $100 thousand on the issues associated with this technology, noted that over the next 12 months will provide at least the same. Almost three quarters of the companies expect that the blockchain will lead to destabilization of the usual operation of the internal systems they have and customers.
Also, the participants of the survey once again confirmed the leading position of IBM in their perception blockchain innovators, giving her 65% of the vote, while Microsoft got them almost 10 times less (7%). A year ago, 43% of respondents Juniper Research gave IBM the first place on developments in the field of blockchain technology, and Microsoft has received 20% of votes.
Recall that the results of the Deloitte survey conducted in March-April of this year among 1053 representatives of companies working in CFOs, technological and medical fields in Canada, China, France, Germany, Mexico, the UK and the USA and has an annual turnover of over $500 million, showed that 74% of respondents see a compelling economic rationale for the transition to the blockchain.
And experts from research and consulting company Gartner recently came to the conclusion that the interest in blockchain technology in “cycle of hype” that describes the attitude to emerging technologies, has entered a phase of disappointment after overcoming the peak of expectations.
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