(Kneat: Limerick, Ireland) -- Kneat, a global leader in digital validation and quality process automation, announced the findings of its annual study of the practices, trends, and challenges in the validation space, State of Validation 2026. Informed by more than 600 responses from validation professionals around the world, the report paints a picture of an industry facing intensifying workload demands while continuing to advance in digital validation and AI adoption.

Despite the progress the industry has made digitizing its validation data, with nearly two-thirds either fully using or actively implementing a dedicated digital validation tool, the report shows that full digital maturity is still limited. With only 13% of respondents saying their organization is fully digital across all record types, there remains considerable ground to cover.

Paper still dominates core GxP records in 2026.

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