Harness Recognized as a Leader in The Forrester Wave™: DevOps Platforms, Q2 2025
Harness has been named a Leader in The Forrester Wave™: DevOps Platforms, Q2 2025, recognized for its AI-first vision, innovation, and strong DevOps capabilities. With top scores in AI infusion, deployment automation, and customer experience, Harness is redefining the future of DevOps through intelligent automation and customer-centric design.
AI-Driven Innovation Leading the Future of DevOps
We're honored to announce that Harness has been named a Leader in The Forrester Wave™: DevOps Platforms, Q2 2025. We believe recognition reflects our vision that artificial intelligence is fundamental to the future of DevOps platforms and our commitment to reducing toil for engineers across the entire software development lifecycle.
AI as the Foundation of Modern DevOps
At Harness, we understand that a key differentiator for DevOps platforms going forward is how AI eliminates toil and eases cognitive load for developers, platform engineers, and SREs.
Harness received the highest scores possible in the “AI Infusion”, “Innovation”, and “Vision ”criteria. Harness has been moving quickly in the right direction.
Forrester's evaluation noted that "A vision of AI throughout the SDLC, a focus on security, and cloud cost self-service tools bring a strong mix of business value and developer experience." This aligns perfectly with our philosophy that AI shouldn't just be an add-on feature—it should be woven throughout every aspect of the development and delivery process for velocity, efficiency, reliability, and security.
Excellence Beyond AI: Proven DevOps Capabilities
While we believe our AI innovation sets us apart, Harness also excels in traditional DevOps capabilities. We received the highest score possible in deployment automation criterion, reflecting, in our opinion, our robust and mature approach to continuous delivery. Our platform provides deep out-of-the-box support for deployment strategies, intelligent handling of failures, detection of problematic deployments and AI-powered rollbacks.
Additionally, we achieved the top score in the data, analytics and reporting criteria, providing our users with superior capabilities to track developer efficiency, compare cloud costs, and create custom dashboards for a wide variety of personas. These capabilities help platform teams continuously improve and make data-driven decisions about their DevOps practices.
Customer-Centric Approach That Drives Success
What perhaps matters most to us is how our customers experience working with Harness. Forrester's research found that "Customers felt they got the excellent attention they needed and had more influence on the roadmap than they might have had with a larger vendor. Even smaller-sized organizations appreciated having direct access to the CEO."
We believe this feedback reflects our core belief that great technology is only as good as the partnerships we build with our customers. We're committed to providing not just innovative tools, but also the support and collaboration that helps our customers succeed in their DevOps transformation.
“Harness has been a great partner in our DevOps journey,” said Steve Day, CTO of National Australia Bank (NAB). “Their team moves fast, listens closely, and delivers real value. We’ve always seen them as a leader in this space, and it’s great to see that reflected in Forrester’s latest Wave.”
Looking Forward: Honored and Just Getting Started
We're deeply grateful to the customers who have put their trust in us and continue to share their feedback, helping us build a platform that truly serves the needs of modern engineering teams. Being named a Leader in the Forrester Wave for the first time is an incredible honor, and it's just the beginning.
As we continue to push the boundaries of what's possible with AI-driven DevOps, we remain committed to our founding principles: reducing complexity, eliminating toil, and empowering engineers to deliver software faster and more reliably than ever before.
To our customers, partners, and the broader DevOps community: thank you for being part of this journey. We're just getting started.
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