The beginning of the year revealed intriguing global trends but also interesting local tendencies in the tech industry, namely in the software development segment. It is true that engineering teams and business teams feel the impact of the current changes in different ways, but it is also important to keep a big picture on the general ecosystem and its overall interactions. It is equally important to watch the particularities of each industry benefiting of the tech industry’s progress and evolution. In this context, we present our trend summary as seen through the eyes of a Romanian software development company, based in the beautiful city of Cluj-Napoca, Transylvania working with global customers on a global tech market.
From Our Core Business Perspective
Making sure to align technology with business goals is a priority for top executives. The creation of value and the integration of each industry’s market insight is part of a successful software solution. From this point of view, our founder colleague emphasizes the importance of building an adaptive business model: “2026 is announcing to be transformative, both in terms of how industries embrace new technologies and of how tech companies decide to adjust to the latest business models.” – states Levente Szélyes, CEO in his annual message for our technology and strategic partners.
Mr. Szélyes continues with giving his perspective on how these latest changes affect tech industry and the working models: “The latest technology trends are leading the shift to a deeper digital-awareness across industries, mobility systems, energy grids and innovation ecosystems. AI-led processes become integral in the development cycle, security-first architectures set the grounds for future-ready solutions, while cloud-native and hybrid strategies become the norm.
In this landscape, the need for particular skill sets and new competencies will remain the main driver for working with global, outsourced teams. From this perspective, we are proud to count a long history of global collaboration for the development of innovative software solutions.”
From a Tech Perspective
Dr. Lászlő Barbás, PhD – our CTO at SOFTECH, outlines the importance of architecture-led thinking for the software solutions of the future: “As a technology leader in software delivery, we architect the next generation of intelligent digital platforms by converging Cloud, AI, GenAI, Industrial IoT, and data-centric architectures.
Our strategic focus is to build scalable Lakehouse ecosystems powered by Databricks and Spark, enabling advanced analytics, MCP-enabled agent orchestration, and domain-specific AI models tailored to each client’s operational reality.”
The key trend as observed by Dr. Lászlő Barbás, PhD is the integration of all these different technologies in a cohesive ecosystem: “We move beyond isolated implementations toward integrated, secure, and future-ready digital foundations where intelligent agents, connected industrial assets, and GenAI capabilities operate as a cohesive ecosystem.”
From our Marketing Perspective
At the beginning of 2026, Today Software Magazine issued a thought leadership article that explores the trends forecast as seen from our local IT community in Cluj-Napoca. Led by Ovidiu Mățan – Founder of Today Software Magazine, the survey aimed to analyse on what the responders will pin the most. As declared by the surveyor, the common denominator in the collected responses, besides enthusiasm and optimism, points to the increasingly significant implications of AI at all levels of activity in the tech industry.
Our marketing team is constantly monitoring global trends and forecasted changes, thus we present a few interesting remarks published in the collective article by Diana Roșca – Marketing Manager. “Since we are already witnessing the rise of artificial intelligence on an industrial scale, particularly the expansion of the role of Physical AI, the main trends for 2026 are: system-level innovation, intelligent transformation, and longevity-oriented technologies.
- (…) system-level innovation because engineering the future involves innovating and rethinking the various infrastructures that support modern life: mobility, energy, food, industrial production, education, and health. We are talking about the transition to software-defined vehicles, renewable energy and new alternatives, vertical farming and AI-managed supply chain integration, adaptive manufacturing processes, education delivered through new means and environments, ultra-precision medical instruments, and patient monitoring using state-of-the-art technologies.
- Intelligent transformation will require the mobilization of intellectual capital and know-how available both globally and locally. In practice, the major shift will be to switch the focus from adopting cloud technology, increased connectivity, and digitization, to embedding AI into all systems, rather than simply “adding” it on top of them. (…)
- The continuous development of technologies aimed at increasing longevity varies depending on cultural topologies around the world, but the end goal is the same: a longer and higher quality of life than was previously possible. We are moving from episodic diagnosis to coordinated monitoring and prevention of human health deterioration. (…)”
How to Approach these Changes?
The best way to approach upcoming changes is to work with experts and well-prepared tech partners. Our CEO, engineer Levente Szélyes offers a few insights: “With a fine-tuning approach and outstanding customer centric services, we bring technology expertise and full application life cycle capabilities for large scale, innovative projects. While our core competencies revolve around industrial-grade software development, we must highlight the fact that cloud development, IoT development, mobile development and AI development delivered for top global players, resulted in award-winning solutions.
With such great achievements written in the history of our company, we believe we can build together software of the highest quality!”
Hoping that we gave a helpful perspective on how to embrace tech changes, how to be ready to adapt for the current context and how to commit to shaping the future, we invite you all to get in touch with our team and be open to discuss your current bottlenecks, technology expectations and project ideas.
If your company is also willing to meet us in person, you can do that by planning a visit at our booth at the upcoming fairs in Europe – MWC Barcelona and GITEX Berlin – or, to book a trip to Cluj-Napoca, Romania!