B
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40%
40% -- share of providers using commercial ci tools for technology and service providers (2026)
Gartner expects roughly 40 percent of technology and service providers to use commercial CI tools by 2026.
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40%
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2026
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20
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30
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45
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95
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Gartner
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Tier C
https://www.socialcrawl.dev/blog/competitor-intelligence-2026-b2b-guide ↗
Source Article
Competitor Intelligence in 2026: How B2B Teams Win Deals
Sixty-eight percent of B2B sales deals now involve at least one direct competitor, yet the average sales team rates itself just 3.8 out of 10 for competitive preparedness. That gap costs organisations between two and ten million dollars a year in winnable deals, per Crayon's 2025 State of Competitiv…
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Gartner forecast, up from about 10 percent a few years earlier
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technology and service providers: 40% share of providers using commercial ci tools. Source: Gartner (2026). Via Lighthouse Intelligence -- https://lighthousedata.io/data/gartner-ci-tool-adoption-2026
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