Friday, 21 February 2014

ICT budget and staffing trends in Austria - Enterprise ICT investment plans to 2013

Reportstack has announced a new market research publication on ICT budget and staffing trends in Austria - Enterprise ICT investment plans to 2013 which presents the findings from a survey of 52 Austrian enterprises regarding their Information and Communication Technology (ICT) budgets and staff allocation. The survey investigates how Austrian enterprises currently allocate their ICT budgets across the core areas of enterprise ICT spend, namely hardware, software, IT services, communications, and consulting. In order to provide a depth of insight into ICT vendors' and service providers' potential customers. Austrian respondents' total ICT spending on core IT including software, hardware, and IT services in 2013 is expected is slightly higher compared to 2012. Although, growth across several sectors has slowed down because of the turbulent economic conditions across Europe, the government sector in Austria is demonstrating a particularly positive outlook towards ICT investments, which is providing good opportunities for many ICT vendors. Global ICT Intelligence has invested significant resources in order to interview CIOs and IT managers about their ICT Budgets. Very few IT analyst houses will have interviewed 50+ ICT decision makers in Austrian market in H2 2012.

Key Features and Benefits
Understand how ICT budgets are set to change in 2013 in terms of their overall size.

Appreciate how budgets are allocated across the core elements of ICT spend, including hardware, software, services, communications and consulting.

Learn how ICT Euros are being spent in areas such as the data centre, applications, IT management and the network.

Establish how IT staff are typically allocated within Austrian organisations.

Gain insight into with whom Austrian enterprises plan to spend their ICT Euros.

Key Market Issues
Investment in improving data centre infrastructure is expected to remain a primary area of focus for Austrian enterprises in 2013, as they look to streamline their operations.

To avoid additional overhead costs, Austrian enterprises are shifting their focus towards software as a service, as it reduces the burden of application management and at the same time eases deployment.

Due to the tough economic conditions, Austrian enterprises have been spending less on IT consulting.

The survey reveals that spending on communications was confined to X% of the external ICT budget in 2012, which is expected to decrease by X% in 2013.

Key Highlights
The survey finds that Austrian enterprises are increasing their software budget allocations to X% in 2013 - a X% increase over their allocations in 2012.

In a similar vein to 2012, enterprises are spending the most with systems integrators and technology (product) vendors, who account for X% and X% of total ICT budgets respectively.

The survey indicates that the largest proportion (X%) of total IT employees is resourced on applications, as Austrian enterprises focus on the smooth and effective running of their business critical software.

A sizeable portion (X%) of Austrian enterprises' software budgets is allocated to software licences, with enterprises generating substantial demand for software such as enterprise applications and security solutions.

The survey shows that Austrian enterprises are spending a large portion (X%) of their IT services budgets on security and privacy services owing to increasing attacks on data and networks and the demand for security services such as threat and vulnerability management services, IT security management services, security compliance services, and secure communications and content services.
To view the table of contents and know more details please visit ICT budget and staffing trends in Austria - Enterprise ICT investment plans to 2013.

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