Forecast 2015

An IT
Outlook
Constructing Budgets with
Business Growth in Mind
IT Spending is on an Upswing

43

Overall
change
in 2015 IT
budgets:

expect
IT budget
increases
in 2015

4.3

up from 36%
last year

Top 5 Tech Spending Increases in 2015

Security
Technologies

Cloud
Computing

46

Business
Analytics

42

1,000+

52 35

36

<1,000

Storage

38

1,000+

35

1,000+

<1,000

<1,000

46% 29%

46% 26%

24

Hardware is the only area with

a significant spending decrease

Wireless/
Mobile

will decrease
spending
on hardware

Top New Areas of Spending in 2015

Internet of
Things (IoT)

Energy-saving &
Carbon-reducing
Technologies

High Performance
Computing (HPC)

32

22

16

IT Priorities & Projects

Heads of IT Are Focusing on Business Growth Initiatives
Growing Revenue
Head of IT

Growing Profitability

Non-Head of IT

40

Head of IT

29

35

35

Enhancing Competitiveness

Non-Head of IT

Head of IT

28

28

Improving collaboration
with Business
Head of IT

Non-Head of IT

Non-Head of IT

34

25

Cloud Projects are Key to IT in 2015

Cloud Computing

1
1

single most
important tech
project right now

Top goals for

Cloud projects

Generating new revenue

streams & cutting costs

76

most disruptive

technology in the
next 3-5 years

of enterprises have moved at least

some data, infrastructure and/or
enterprise apps to the cloud.

IT Disruption, Challenges & Strategy

Greatest Impact Expected form Cloud & Self-Service IT

Cloud/Saas

Self-service
IT

Predictive
Analytics

Social
Networking

Internet of
Things

Mobile
Payments

Top Leadership Challenges in the Next 12 Months

Budget
constraints/
economic
pressures

Managing
expectations/
business
alignment

Security

Dealing
with planned
mergers or
acquisitions

Managing
projects

1,000+

Adopting new IT strategies,

<1,000

48

30

(like agile development and DevOps)

is an enterprise priority.

are adopting new strategies

for enterprise IT projects

IT Hiring Plans & In-Demand Skills

Outsourced Projects Are Coming Back In-House
We plan to bring more

We plan to outsource more projects

outsourced projects
back in-house

2015

15

2014

2015

2014

18

We plan to keep our

outsourced/in-house project ratio

about the same as last year

10

2015

2014

72

Staffing

New systems
& projects
20

48

20

14

15

59

68

Skills

Top factor leading to IT staff growth:

17

Programming/
App Dev

in-demand
skill

most
difficult
to hire

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