Product Synopsis
This report presents the findings from a survey of 85 Australian enterprises regarding their Information and Communication Technology (ICT) budgets and staff allocation. The survey investigates how Australian enterprises currently allocate their ICT budgets across the core areas of enterprise ICT spend, namely hardware, software, IT services, communications and consulting.
Introduction and Landscape
Why was the report written?
In order to provide a depth of insight into ICT vendors’ and service providers’ potential customers.
What is the current market landscape and what is changing?
The ICT market in Australia is witnessing strong growth, with enterprises spending their budgets across all major technological areas.
What are the key drivers behind recent market changes?
Kable’s survey reveals that factors such as the strength and stability of the Australian financial system, the performance of its major trading partners and enterprises’ need to enhance their operational efficiencies and sustainability will drive investments across all major technological areas.
What makes this report unique and essential to read?
Kable Global ICT Intelligence has invested significant resources in order to interview CIOs and IT managers about their IT Budgets. Very few IT analyst houses will have interviewed 80+ ICT decision makers in Australian market in H2 2012.
Key Features and Benefits
Understand how ICT budgets are set to change in 2013 in terms of their overall size.
Appreciate how IT budgets are allocated across the core elements of IT spend, including hardware, software, services, communications and consulting.
Learn how IT Dollars are being spent in areas such as the data centre, applications, IT management and the network.
Establish how IT staff are typically allocated within Australian organizations
Gain insight into with whom Australian enterprises plan to spend their ICT Dollars.
Key Market Issues
Kable’ survey reveals that allocation of the ICT budget to end-user computing is expected to decline slightly by X% in 2013 over 2012.
The relatively lower allocation of IT staff members to infrastructure management and IT management suggests that Australian organisations are trying to reduce their costs in these areas.
The proportion of ICT budget allocated for internal development and maintenance will be retained at the same level in 2013 compared to 2012, although large enterprises in Australia are expected to raise their in-house ICT budgets significantly.
Australian enterprises are still dependent on legacy fixed-line networks, which is evident from the survey as X% of the telecommunications budget is allocated to fixed voice.
Cloud services has limited accessibility among Australian enterprises, as the survey data shows that enterprises are allocating X% of their total IT services budgets here.
Key Highlights
Australian enterprises are planning to allocate X% of their total ICT budgets to hardware, software, and communications in 2013, which is slightly more than the combined allocation in 2012.
The average hardware budget allocation is dominated by client computing devices, while software licensing is the area where the major portion of software budgets is being allocated.
Kable’s survey reflects that a significant portion of the average IT services budget is being allocated to application development (X%), security and privacy services (X%), and desktop services (X%).
The potential for productivity improvement through the intelligent use of technology is recognised as a driving force for ICT investment by Australian enterprises.
Australian enterprises are judiciously resourcing their IT staff based on the nature of their involvement in IT and the degree to which the business depends on it. The survey reveals that applications and service support and the help desk functions constitute the major portion of IT staff.
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