Dealing With Shaky Budgets Top IT Priority: Survey

According to IDC’s “Continuum” End-User Survey 2012 conducted by IDC’s End-User Research & Statistics Department in Asia/Pacific, 25 percent of the respondents indicated that dealing with lower/reduced budget was their top IT priority over the next 12 months; followed by 18 percent stating aligning IT to changing business landscape was their top priority; and 12 percent stating their top priority was building better tools that help management make better business decisions.

Respondents of the survey are all IT decision makers in the Asia/Pacific excluding Japan region, and they expected an increase in IT spending in the following IT Trends in the region: Virtualisation and Automation driven needs (39 percent), Big Data/Analytics (34 percent), Mobility related (34 percent) and datacentre expansion (34 percent). To support the IT trends growth, respondents also expected hardware related spends to form a large chunk of the IT spends.

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