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Bain & Company · September 2025

Technology Report 2025

Bain & Company's Technology Report 2025 (September 2025; fielded N/A) found that 10–15% typical productivity boost for software teams using AI assistants, often not turning into business value.

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AI savings leave an $800 billion gap in the revenue needed to fund data centers by 2030Annual revenue toward the ~$2 trillion needed to fund AI data center build-out in 2030, US$ billions (Bain estimates)
Move all on-premise IT to the cloud
~$430B
AI cuts sales, marketing and support costs by 20%
~$510B
AI saves 20% on R&D spending
~$270B
Remaining gap
$800B
Source: Bain & Company, Technology Report 2025, 2025, p. 33 (Figure 2, compute chapter).

Key findings

  1. 01
    Two out of three software firms have rolled out generative AI tools, but developer adoption remains low.
  2. 02
    Leaders pairing AI with end-to-end process redesign report 25–30% productivity gains, versus 10–15% from assistants alone.
  3. 03
    Sellers spend only about 25% of their time actually selling; Bain says AI could roughly double that.

By the numbers

10–15%typical productivity boost for software teams using AI assistants, often not turning into business value
25–30%productivity gains some companies report when pairing generative AI with end-to-end process redesign
$800Bannual revenue shortfall by 2030 to fund AI data centers, even after AI-related savings
Published MCP servers grew from about 100 to about 7,000 in eight monthsNumber of Model Context Protocol servers published for developers and enterprise teams (approximate)
Source: Bain & Company, Technology Report 2025, 2025, p. 51 (Figure 1, agentic AI chapter).

What it means for you Draft

For executives at $10–100M companies

Bain's point is that tools alone produce modest gains; the bigger results come from redesigning the whole process around them. For a B2B firm, the sales finding may be the most practical: look at how much of a seller's week is admin before buying anything new. This is an analysis without a disclosed sample, so treat the figures as consultant estimates.

Limitations

Low trust.Analytical report; no disclosed survey sample or method for most figures. Bain sells AI and technology consulting.

About the publisher: Sells AI strategy and implementation consulting.

Cite the original

Bain & Company. "Technology Report 2025." September 23, 2025. https://www.bain.com/insights/topics/technology-report/

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