ICT investment trends in utilities - Enterprise ICT spending patterns through to the end of 2015, New Report Launched

This report presents the findings from a survey of 153 utility companies regarding their Information and Communications Technology (ICT) investment trends. The survey investigates how utility companies currently allocate their ICT budgets across the core areas of enterprise ICT expenditure: hardware, software, IT services, communications, and consulting.

Key Findings

• Publisher's survey of 153 utility companies 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 Publisher's survey, utility companies are planning to invest X% of their external ICT budgets in hardware, software, and IT services in 2014, which is more than the combined allocation in 2013 (X%).
• Utility companies are allocating the highest proportion of their software budgets to application lifecycle management (X%) followed by enterprise applications (X%) and information management (X%) in 2013.

Synopsis

This report presents the findings from a survey of 153 utility companies regarding their Information and Communications Technology (ICT) investment trends. The survey investigates how utility companies 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 content management, green IT and virtualization, and cloud computing. The survey also highlights the approach adopted by the utility companies to purchase technology. Through Publisher's survey, the report aims to provide better insight to ICT vendors and services providers when pitching their solutions to utility companies.

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 utility companies are interested in outsourcing.
• Identify utility companies' investment priorities based on their budget allocations across core technology categories such as content management, green IT and virtualization, and cloud computing.
• Learn about the drivers that are influencing utility companies' investments in each technology category.
• Establish how utility companies IT budgets are currently allocated across various segments within a technology category.
• Gain insight into how utility companies 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 utility companies' preferred buying approaches.
• Comprehend the business and IT objectives that utility companies are looking to achieve through their IT investment strategies.
• Understand the factors that are influencing utility companies' decision to select an ICT provider.

Reasons to Buy

• This report will help readers to understand how the utility companies 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 utility companies.
• The report will provide a detailed breakdown of the opportunities within selected technology categories (content management, green IT and virtualization, and cloud computing).
• Understand the factors that are influencing utility companies' decision to select an ICT provider.
• Gain a view as to the business and IT objectives utility companies are looking to achieve through their ICT investment strategies.

Spanning over 56 pages, “ICT investment trends in utilities - Enterprise ICT spending patterns through to the end of 2015” report covering the Trends in ICT budgets, ICT investment priorities and vendor mindshare, ICT procurement trends, Sector-specific trends, Summary, Appendix. The report covered 18 companies - Microsoft, IBM, HP, Open Text, Oracle, EMC Documentum, Dell, Cisco, VMware, Google, Orange, Amazon web services, Verizon, Rackspace, Salesforce.com, ATandT, Deutsche Telekom/T-Systems, BT

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