CIO survey: Mobile, BI and cloud drive IT spending growth

The latest technology poll/Technology priority survey by the US CIO magazine shows that within the next 12 months, businesses and organizations will have an increased it budget, while investment in mobile technology will be the largest part of the new IT budget. And the first three major technology investments that it executives have in addition to mobile technology, the other two are cloud computing services, business Intelligence and Analytics (bi& A).

According to the CIO's survey of 269 senior IT decision makers, almost half (48%) of respondents said it spending would increase in the coming year, while 39% per cent expected the budget to be flat and only 13% said it would be reduced.

These figures coincide with a similar survey conducted 6 months ago, which pointed to an expected increase of 46%, a flat budget of 38% and a budget reduction of 16%.

In the surveyed organizations, business process innovation was seen as more than One-third, or 35%, of the key elements driving spending increases. 22% per cent of respondents said there were two main areas for boosting spending: boosting sales growth and increasing the efficiency of IT infrastructure management, while another 18% were looking to reduce operating costs.

In the Trojan design and manufacturing company, its IT manager, Lee Murray, said it expected to add about 15% of its operating budget in 2013 and a 20% capital-purchase budget.

The main driver of budget growth is the increase in overall business. Murray expects spending growth in basic technology and capital acquisitions to accommodate the rapid growth of the organization as a whole.

"There is also the incentive to drive spending growth in mobile deployments, and we are moving rapidly towards that area," he said. ”

Mobile technology has become a popular investment area for CIOs, with 58% of respondents planning to invest more in the next 12 months. Many organizations are already trying to deploy and move related technologies. For example, 25% of corporate IT leaders say they are experimenting with mobile technology, and 20% of respondents are trying to use tablets, and 19% of organizations are already trying to use social media/collaboration tools.

In Hargrove, revenue growth is a key driver of growth in IT spending. The company's CIO, Barr Snyderwine, explains that customer-facing applications can improve and improve the customer's experience, keeping customers critical to the enterprise's it work.

"The company is deploying tablets to use cloud applications on the right occasions," Snyderwine said. "The exhibition company is also deploying new mobile client applications to enhance the customer experience.

In the search for new trends for the next year, 39% of CIOs explicitly mention that bi&a;36% refers to business process management, followed by external cloud/public cloud, 32%, social media/collaboration tools, 31%, and internal cloud/private cloud, 31%.

"When I'm communicating with other CIOs, they think Bi is the next big thing," Snyderwine said. He is now working on Bi&a tools for the company's business.

This is also the case with Trojan design and manufacturing companies. "When it comes to bi&a, our planning for the future is still evolving, and it is expected to increase this investment in the next 12 months," Murray said. "Using data mining to support ongoing business development will be an endless process." ”

The latest CIO survey shows that overall business investment is continuing to swing from core technology to edge technology, such as mobile, bi&a, tablet computers and the cloud.

Investment in cloud technology is very important in the effort to galata chemical companies to reduce costs. This is a medium-sized global enterprise. "Our desktops, SAP, antivirus, remote communications, and other SaaS applications are already in the cloud," said Galata's IT manager Phillip Andrews. Because of the global business, the company must make its resources to the fullest.

In this survey, Galata is one of the organizations reporting that it spending will be reduced over the next 12 months because of the goal of achieving cost savings.

The technology that has been put into production and not included in the future trends of most organizations is server virtualization. More than 65% of Enterprises report that server virtualization has entered its production area. 49% Organization Report Server virtualization has fully covered the production process of the enterprise, and another 16% of enterprises said that the server virtualization has been invested in the production of various business units or branch offices.

Only less than 5% per cent of respondents said they were attempting server virtualization, while 10% said they were upgrading or revamping their existing virtualized infrastructure.

Other top technologies that have been put into production or used in business units and branches are hardware infrastructure (desktop/notebook upgrades), 48% hardware infrastructure (smartphones such as BlackBerry, IPhone, Android), 43% data management, 42% customer service/crm,41%; erp,41% video conferencing/remote conferencing, 41%.

(Responsible editor: The good of the Legacy)