II. Software Spending
Software spending will increase seven per cent, with focus on security, business intelligence and electronic content management.Trends that surveyed CIOs outlined included:
- Standardizing on larger vendors to reduce cost and minimize risk.
- Business intelligence (BI), enterprise content management (ECM) and security software are the top spending priorities.
- 15 per cent of respondents plan to increase BI spending more than five per cent.
- 12 per cent of respondents plan to increase ECM spending more than five per cent.
- 17 per cent of respondents plan to increase customer relationship management (CRM) spending more than 10 per cent.
Security Software
- 70 per cent of respondents plan to increase spending on security software.
- 40 per cent of respondents plan to increase spending by five per cent or more.
Infrastructure Software
- 48 per cent of respondents are planning to increase spending on databases.
- 39 per cent of respondents are planning to increase enterprise resource planning (ERP) spending.
- ILM (Information Lifecycle Management, or storage/retention strategies based on information value) spending appears stable, as customers focus on integration and optimization of existing storage and retention processes.
Application Integration and Application Development Software
- 68 per cent of respondents are planning to increase spending on application development.
- 67 per cent of respondents are planning to increase spending on application integration.
- 45 per cent of respondents plan spending increases in IT service support and management
Operating Systems
- Microsoft and Linux dominate operating systems spending, chosen by 33 per cent of respondents planning spending increases.
On-Demand Software
- More than 60 per cent of respondents plan to increase spending on Web conferencing.
- 46 per cent of respondents plan to spend more on HR/payroll and sales force automation software.
- On-demand enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems and Web analytics are receiving the smallest investment.
Open-Source Software
- More than 60 per cent of respondents plan to increase spending on Linux.
- Firefox (Mozilla) browsers do not have much support but are free
- 50 per cent of respondents intend to increase Apache (open source Web server) spending.
