Ict Investment Trends in Italy - Enterprise Ict Spending Patterns Through to the End of 2015

ICT Investment Trends In Italy - Enterprise ICT Spending Patterns Through To The End Of 2015

This report presents the findings from a survey of 157 Italian enterprises regarding their Information and Communications Technology (ICT) investment trends. The survey investigates how Italian enterprises currently allocate their ICT budgets across the core areas of enterprise ICT expenditure: hardware, software, IT services, communications, and consulting. Key Findings Kable's survey of 157 Italian enterprises highlights that X% of respondents anticipate an increase in their ICT budgets in 2014, which is an increase of X% compared to 2013. According to Kable's survey, Italian enterprises are allocating the highest proportion of their hardware budgets to client computing technologies (X%) followed by communications equipment (X%) in 2013. Italian enterprises are allocating the highest proportion of their software budgets to enterprise applications (X%) followed by information management (X%) and application lifecycle (X%) in 2013. Synopsis This report presents the findings from a survey of 157 Italian regarding their Information and Communications Technology (ICT) investment trends. The survey investigates how Italian enterprises currently allocate their ICT budgets across the core areas of enterprise ICT expenditure: hardware, software, IT services, communications, and consulting. The report illustrates the core technologies enterprises are investing in, including business intelligence, communications and collaboration, green IT and virtualization, and cloud computing. The survey also highlights the approach adopted by enterprises in Italy to purchase technology. Through Kable's survey, the report aims to provide better insight to ICT vendors and services providers when pitching their solutions to enterprises in Italy. In particular, it provides an in-depth analysis of the following: Understand how ICT budgets are set to change in 2014 in terms of their overall size....