“• Kable’s survey reveals that in order to reduce and control operating costs and keep a focus on their core activities, Australian enterprises are also planning to outsource their infrastructure and help desk functions through to the end of 2016
• To react to changing market dynamics quickly, Australian enterprises are increasingly spending on business intelligence tools, with the highest proportion of respondents planning investments in data warehousing/marts and social sentiment analytics in the next two years
• With the majority of respondents having expressed their intention to invest in server and storage virtualization technologies in the next two years, there are good opportunities for vendors operating in this space”
“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 Cloud computing budget
1.5 ICT budget allocation by function
1.6 Outsourced IT functions
2 ICT investment priorities and vendor satisfaction
2.1 Introduction
2.1.1 Enterprise applications
2.1.2 Business intelligence
2.1.3 Green IT & virtualization
3 ICT procurement trends
3.1 Introduction
3.2 Business objectives and IT objectives influencing IT investment strategy
3.3 ICT provider selection
4 Summary
4.1 Australian enterprises are optimistic about increasing their investments in various advanced technologies
5 Appendix
5.1 Definitions
5.2 Further reading
5.3 Contact the authors”
“Figure 1: Australian enterprise ICT survey industry breakdown
Figure 2: Australian enterprise ICT survey breakdown by size band (number of employees)
Figure 3: Recent and expected ICT budget changes among Australian enterprises
Figure 4: Australian enterprises’ (external) ICT budget allocation, 2014 and 2015
Figure 5: Australian enterprises’ average hardware budget allocation
Figure 6: Average allocation of software budgets in Australian enterprise market
Figure 7: Australian enterprises’ average IT services budget allocation
Figure 8: Australian enterprises’ average cloud computing budget allocation by technology
Figure 9: Australian enterprises’ average cloud computing budget allocation by implementation type
Figure 10: Australian enterprises’ ICT budget allocation by function, 2014 and 2015
Figure 11: Outsourced IT functions – Australian enterprises’ current and future outsourcing priorities
Figure 12: Enterprise applications – Australian enterprises’ current and future investment priorities
Figure 13: Enterprise applications – selected primary provider and vendor satisfaction among Australian enterprises
Figure 14: Business intelligence – Australian enterprises’ current and future investment priorities
Figure 15: Business intelligence – selected primary provider and vendor satisfaction among Australian enterprises
Figure 16: Green IT & virtualization – Australian enterprises’ current and future investment priorities
Figure 17: Green IT & virtualization – selected primary provider and vendor satisfaction among Australian enterprises
Figure 18: Business objectives and IT objectives which influence Australian enterprises’ IT investment strategy
Figure 19: Factors influencing Australian enterprises’ decision to choose an ICT provider”
