B
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64%
64% -- category spend popularity growth for AI tools (2024)
AI tools grew by 64% in popularity over the past 12 months, representing the largest proportional rise in any category of tech spend.
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64%
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Percentage
Data Vintage
2024
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Evidence Quality
B
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Score breakdown
Extraction
75
Source Trust
60
Citation Chain
20
Independence
30
Methodology
45
Freshness
95
Source
Vertice
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Tier B
https://www.vertice.one/insights ↗
Source Article
SaaS & Cloud Insights Hub | Vertice
Trending Apps
Across SME, Mid-Market and Enterprise
While tools like Salesforce and Slack are frequently relied upon across business sizes, our data shows that generally SMEs often value adaptable, user-friendly tools that support rapid growth and are more willing to adopt new innovative ‘challenger…
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Vertice
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Vertice tech spend data, last 12 months
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AI tools: 64% category spend popularity growth. Source: Vertice (2024). Via Lighthouse Intelligence -- https://lighthousedata.io/data/ai-tools-spend-popularity-growth-2024
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<blockquote cite="https://lighthousedata.io/data/ai-tools-spend-popularity-growth-2024" style="border-left:3px solid #2563eb;padding:12px 16px;margin:16px 0;font-family:system-ui,sans-serif;background:#f0f4ff;"><strong>64%</strong> -- category spend popularity growth for AI tools<br><small>Source: Vertice (2024) · <a href="https://lighthousedata.io/data/ai-tools-spend-popularity-growth-2024" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Lighthouse Intelligence</a></small></blockquote>
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