“• Most ICT decision makers in the US enterprises are planning to increase their ICT budget in 2015, owing to the sustainment of a stable political and economic environment and rising interest of US enterprises in areas such as mobility and communications & collaboration
• The need for real-time communications, improved access to enterprise data, and increasing employee productivity are the key drivers behind US enterprises’ adoption of BYOD (bring your own device) and enterprise mobility solutions
• Furthermore, the growing interest of US enterprises in collaborative tools, business intelligence solutions, and mobile applications is resulting in increasing investments in software in 2015”
“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 Security products
2.1.2 Mobility
2.1.3 Communications & collaboration
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 A recovering and stable economic and political environment is encouraging US enterprises to increase their ICT budgets
5 Appendix
5.1 Definitions
5.2 Further reading
5.3 Contact the authors”
“Figure 1: US enterprise ICT survey industry breakdown
Figure 2: US enterprise ICT survey breakdown by size band (number of employees)
Figure 3: Recent and expected ICT budget changes among US enterprises
Figure 4: US enterprises’ (external) ICT budget allocation, 2014 and 2015
Figure 5: US enterprises’ average hardware budget allocation
Figure 6: Average allocation of software budgets in the US enterprise market
Figure 7: US enterprises’ average IT services budget allocation
Figure 8: US enterprises’ average cloud computing budget allocation by technology
Figure 9: US enterprises’ average cloud computing budget allocation by implementation type
Figure 10: US enterprises’ ICT budget allocation by function, 2014 and 2015
Figure 11: Outsourced IT functions – US enterprises’ current and future outsourcing priorities
Figure 12: Security products – US enterprises’ current and future investment priorities
Figure 13: Security products – selected primary provider and vendor satisfaction among US enterprises
Figure 14: Mobility – US enterprises’ current and future investment priorities
Figure 15: Mobility – selected primary provider and vendor satisfaction among US enterprises
Figure 16: Communications & collaboration – US enterprises’ current and future investment priorities
Figure 17: Communications & collaboration – selected primary provider and vendor satisfaction among US enterprises
Figure 18: Business objectives and IT objectives which influence US enterprises’ IT investment strategy
Figure 19: Factors influencing US enterprises’ decision to choose an ICT provider”
