Table of Contents 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 and 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 List of Figures
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 and collaboration - US enterprises' current and future investment priorities Figure 17: Communications and 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
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