What Gartner’s Latest Report Says About the Future of Asset Investment Planning
The latest Gartner Asset Investment Planning report points to a bigger shift in the market: AIP is no longer just about building and prioritizing a capital plan. It’s becoming a way to make better investment decisions across the enterprise.
The role of AIP is changing
For years, Asset Investment Planning has helped organizations answer an important question: Which assets and projects should we prioritize? Gartner’s latest research points to a bigger question taking its place: Which investments create the greatest enterprise value under uncertainty?
Asset-intensive organizations are being asked to do more with finite capital. Aging infrastructure, resilience, sustainability, growth and regulatory requirements all compete for investment, making it harder to decide not only what needs investment, but where the next dollar creates the most value.
Gartner sees this changing the role of Asset Investment Planning. In its 2026 Market Overview for Asset Investment Planning Solutions, Gartner describes AIP evolving from asset-level planning and prioritization toward an enterprise investment decision layer connecting operational, financial and risk intelligence to support more transparent and defensible capital allocation decisions.
A direction that looks familiar
IFS Copperleaf approaches AIP as a decision problem, not simply a prioritization exercise. At its foundation is the Copperleaf Value Framework, which gives organizations a consistent way to define what value means to them and evaluate fundamentally different investments against it. Combined with scenario analysis, optimization and governance, organizations can understand trade-offs across cost, risk, resilience, performance and strategic objectives, and build capital plans they can explain and defend.
That approach closely reflects the direction Gartner describes establishing common value models, decision criteria and governance before technology is used to scale and operationalize investment decisions.
The next step: connect the decision to what is happening across the asset ecosystem
Gartner also makes clear that AIP should not operate in isolation. The report describes a connected decision ecosystem where operational, engineering, financial and risk intelligence can be evaluated through a consistent investment framework. This is where the combination of IFS, Copperleaf and AVEVA opens a larger opportunity.
AVEVA brings operational and engineering intelligence from across the asset environment. IFS connects assets, work and service. Copperleaf provides the investment decision layer that turns that intelligence into capital choices.
Together, they create the foundation forcontinuous Asset Decision Intelligence: connecting what is happening to assets with what the organization should do about it and continuously reassessing investment decisions as conditions, risks and priorities change.
From understanding assets, to deciding where to invest, to continuously adapting those decisions as the world changes.
Explore Gartner’s view of where AIP is heading
Read the full 2026 Market Overview for Asset Investment Planning Solutions to explore the market dynamics, emerging capabilities and recommendations Gartner believes will shape the next era of AIP.