ICT investment trends in large enterprises - Enterprise ICT spending patterns through to the end of 2015

Summary
This report presents the findings from a survey of 523 large enterprises regarding their Information and Communications Technology (ICT) investment trends. The survey investigates how large 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 highlights that X% of respondents are planning to increase their ICT budget in 2014, an increase of X% compared to 2013.
- In 2014, X% of large enterprises are planning to increase their ICT expenditure in IT services, compared to (X%) in 2013.
- Kable's survey reveals that while X% of organizations favor buying technologies directly from suppliers, X% prefer to buy them from local resellers.

Synopsis
This report presents the findings from a survey of 523 large enterprises regarding their Information and Communications Technology (ICT) investment trends. The survey investigates how large 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 mobility, green IT and virtualization, communications and collaboration, and cloud computing. The survey also highlights the approach adopted by large enterprises 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 large enterprises.

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.
- Appreciate how IT budgets are allocated across the core elements of IT spend, including hardware, software, services, communications, and consulting.
- Learn how IT money is being spent in areas such as the data centre, applications, IT management and the network.
- Gain an understanding regarding which ICT functions large enterprises are interested in outsourcing.
- Identify large enterprises' investment priorities based on their budget allocations across core technology categories such as mobility, green IT and virtualization, communications and collaboration, and cloud computing.
- Learn about the drivers that are influencing large enterprises' in each technology category.
- Establish how large enterprises' IT budgets are currently allocated across various segments within a technology category.
- Gain insight into how large enterprises plan to change their ICT budget allocations across various segments within a technology category.
- Understand the vendor mindshare for various core and advanced technology categories.
- Provides insight into large enterprises' preferred buying approaches.
- Comprehend the business and IT objectives that large enterprises are looking to achieve through their IT investment strategies.
- Understand the factors that are influencing large enterprises' decision to select an ICT provider.

Reasons?To?Buy
- This report will help readers to understand how the large enterprises' ICT landscape is set to change in 2014.

- Gain a view as to how ICT money is being allocated in your target audience.

- The report covers a detailed breakdown of the opportunities within each of the core areas of ICT spend (hardware, software, IT services, telecommunications and consulting.)

- The report will help users to gain a view of the current strategic objectives of large enterprises.

- The report will provide a detailed breakdown of the opportunities within selected technology categories (mobility, green IT and virtualization, communications and collaboration, and cloud computing).

- Understand the factors that are influencing large enterprises' decision to select an ICT provider.

- Gain a view as to the business and IT objectives large enterprises are looking to achieve through their ICT investment strategies.

1 Trends in ICT budgets
1.1 Introduction
1.2 Survey demographics
1.3 ICT budget changes
1.4 ICT budget allocation by core technology area
1.4.1 Hardware budget breakdown
1.4.2 Software budget breakdowns
1.4.3 Third party IT services expenditure
1.4.4 Telecommunications budget
1.5 ICT budget allocation by function
1.6 Outsourced IT functions
2 ICT investment priorities and vendor mindshare
2.1 Introduction
2.2 Core technology investment priorities
2.2.1 Mobility
2.2.2 Communications and collaboration
2.2.3 Green IT and virtualization
2.2.4 Cloud computing solutions
3 ICT procurement trends
3.1 Introduction
3.2 Purchasing channels
3.3 Business objectives influencing IT investment strategy
3.4 IT objectives influencing IT investment strategy
3.5 ICT provider selection
4 Summary
4.1 Large enterprises are making significant ICT investments to improve business operations and remain competitive
5 Appendix
5.1 Definitions
5.2 Further reading
5.3 Contact the authors