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IT Watch: March 2005
28 March 2005
 
Brian Smith   Paul A. Schwarz  

Demand for IT products and services is nearly equal to budgets in February, an improvement from January. External IT spending to date leads us to believe that overall spending in 2005 will be higher than in 2004.








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Table of Contents


1.0
    
 IT Watch: What's New

2.0
    
 An Overview of IT Watch Demand Indices

2.1
    
 Top-Level Indices: Current Demand and Projected Demand

2.1.1
    
 Current Demand Indices
2.1.2
    
 Projected Demand Indices

3.0
    
 Budget Allocations by Product/Service Category

4.0
    
 Deployment Status of Emerging Technologies

5.0
    
 IT Watch: An Overview

6.0
    
 2004 Spending Recap

7.0
    
 Vendor Purchasing Incidence Statistics

7.1
    
 Hardware Vendor Purchasing Incidence
7.2
    
 Software Vendor Purchasing Incidence
7.3
    
 Networking and Telecommunications Vendor Purchasing Incidence
7.4
    
 IT Services Vendor Purchasing Incidence

8.0
    
 What to Watch

Appendix A.
    
 Acronym Key

Appendix B.
    
 Vendor Summary Indices — Quarterly

Appendix C.
    
 Overall Sector and Product Indices — Quarterly

Appendix D.
    
 Vendor Indices for Products — Quarterly


List of Figures


Figure 1. 
 Current and Projected Demand — Aggregate
 

Figure 2. 
 2005 IT Spending vs. Budgets by Company Size
 

Figure 3. 
 Current Demand by Sector
 

Figure 4. 
 Current Demand for Hardware
 

Figure 5. 
 Current Demand for Software
 

Figure 6. 
 Current Demand for Networking and Telecommunications
 

Figure 7. 
 Current Demand for IT Services
 

Figure 8. 
 Projected Demand by Sector
 

Figure 9. 
 Mean Allocation of Hardware Budgets by Vertical
 

Figure 10. 
 Mean Allocation of Hardware Budgets by Company Size
 

Figure 11. 
 Mean Allocation of Software Budgets by Vertical
 

Figure 12. 
 Mean Allocation of Software Budgets by Company Size
 

Figure 13. 
 Mean Allocation of Networking and Telecommunications Budgets by Vertical
 

Figure 14. 
 Mean Allocation of Networking and Telecommunications Budgets by Company Size
 

Figure 15. 
 Mean Allocation of IT Services Budgets by Vertical
 

Figure 16. 
 Mean Allocation of IT Services Budgets by Company Size
 

Figure 17. 
 Deployment Status of Technologies
 

Figure 18. 
 Deployment Status of Technologies for Large Companies
 

Figure 19. 
 Hardware Vendors Tracked by Category
 

Figure 20. 
 Software Vendors Tracked by Category
 

Figure 21. 
 Software Vendors Tracked by Category — Continued
 

Figure 22. 
 Networking and Telecommunications Vendors Tracked by Category
 

Figure 23. 
 IT Services Vendors Tracked by Category
 

Figure 24. 
 IT Services Vendors Tracked by Category — Continued
 

Figure 25. 
 IT Services Vendors Tracked by Category — Continued
 

Figure 26. 
 2004 IT Spending vs. Budgets by Company Size
 

Figure 27. 
 2004 IT Spending vs. Budgets — Magnitude of Percentage Difference
 

Figure 28. 
 Reasons for Spending Less on Hardware in 2004 Than Was Budgeted
 

Figure 29. 
 Reasons for Spending Less on Hardware in 2004 Than Was Budgeted by Company Size
 

Figure 30. 
 Reasons for Spending Less on Software in 2004 Than Was Budgeted
 

Figure 31. 
 Reasons for Spending Less on Software in 2004 Than Was Budgeted by Company Size
 

Figure 32. 
 Reasons for Spending Less on Networking and Telecommunications in 2004 Than Was Budgeted
 

Figure 33. 
 Reasons for Spending Less on Networking and Telecommunications in 2004 Than Was Budgeted by Company Size
 

Figure 34. 
 Reasons for Spending Less on IT Services in 2004 Than Was Budgeted
 

Figure 35. 
 Reasons for Spending Less on IT Services in 2004 Than Was Budgeted by Company Size
 

Figure 36. 
 How Respondents Characterize Cancelled IT Services Contracts
 

Figure 37. 
 How Respondents Characterize Cancelled IT Services Contracts by Company Size
 

Figure 38. 
 Reasons for Spending More in 2004 Than Was Budgeted
 

Figure 39. 
 Reasons for Spending More in 2004 Than Was Budgeted by Company Size
 

Figure 40. 
 Influence of IBM Sale of PC Unit and PC Brand Substitution
 

Figure 41. 
 Vendor Purchasing Incidence Estimates: Hardware — Servers
 

Figure 42. 
 Vendor Purchasing Incidence Estimates: Hardware — Desktops
 

Figure 43. 
 Vendor Purchasing Incidence Estimates: Hardware — Notebooks
 

Figure 44. 
 Vendor Purchasing Incidence Estimates: Hardware — Handhelds
 

Figure 45. 
 Vendor Purchasing Incidence Estimates: Hardware — Storage
 

Figure 46. 
 Vendor Purchasing Incidence Estimates: Hardware — Input/Output Devices
 

Figure 47. 
 Vendor Purchasing Incidence Estimates: Hardware — Security
 

Figure 48. 
 Vendor Purchasing Incidence Estimates: Hardware — Tablet PCs
 

Figure 49. 
 Vendor Purchasing Incidence Estimates: Hardware — Mobile Phones
 

Figure 50. 
 Vendor Purchasing Incidence Estimates: Software — Back-Office
 

Figure 51. 
 Vendor Purchasing Incidence Estimates: Software — Office/Personal Productivity
 

Figure 52. 
 Vendor Purchasing Incidence Estimates: Software — Collaboration/Content Management
 

Figure 53. 
 Vendor Purchasing Incidence Estimates: Software — Front-Office
 

Figure 54. 
 Vendor Purchasing Incidence Estimates: Software — Application Development
 

Figure 55. 
 Vendor Purchasing Incidence Estimates: Software — Application Integration
 

Figure 56. 
 Vendor Purchasing Incidence Estimates: Software — Information Management
 

Figure 57. 
 Vendor Purchasing Incidence Estimates: Software — Enterprise Systems Management
 

Figure 58. 
 Vendor Purchasing Incidence Estimates: Software — Design/Engineering
 

Figure 59. 
 Vendor Purchasing Incidence Estimates: Software — Security
 

Figure 60. 
 Vendor Purchasing Incidence Estimates: Networking and Telecommunications — Network Equipment/Applications
 

Figure 61. 
 Vendor Purchasing Incidence Estimates: Networking and Telecommunications — Mobile Services
 

Figure 62. 
 Vendor Purchasing Incidence Estimates: Networking and Telecommunications — Fixed Voice/Data Services
 

Figure 63. 
 Vendor Purchasing Incidence Estimates: IT Services — Hardware Maintenance/Support
 

Figure 64. 
 Vendor Purchasing Incidence Estimates: IT Services — Software Maintenance/Support
 

Figure 65. 
 Vendor Purchasing Incidence Estimates: IT Services — Consulting
 

Figure 66. 
 Vendor Purchasing Incidence Estimates: IT Services — Application Development/Integration Services
 

Figure 67. 
 Vendor Purchasing Incidence Estimates: IT Services — IT Management
 

Figure 68. 
 Vendor Purchasing Incidence Estimates: IT Services — Process Management
 

Figure 69. 
 Vendor Purchasing Incidence Estimates: IT Services — IT Training
 

Figure 70. 
 Vendor Summary Indices (Accenture to Mercury) — Quarterly
 

Figure 71. 
 Vendor Summary Indices (Microsoft to Xerox) — Quarterly
 

Figure 72. 
 Overall and Sector Indices — Quarterly
 

Figure 73. 
 Product Indices — Hardware — Quarterly
 

Figure 74. 
 Product Indices — Software — Quarterly
 

Figure 75. 
 Product Indices — Networking and Telecommunications — Quarterly
 

Figure 76. 
 Product Indices — IT Services — Quarterly
 

Figure 77. 
 Vendor Indices for Servers — Quarterly
 

Figure 78. 
 Vendor Indices for Desktops — Quarterly
 

Figure 79. 
 Vendor Indices for Notebooks — Quarterly
 

Figure 80. 
 Vendor Indices for Handhelds — Quarterly
 

Figure 81. 
 Vendor Indices for Storage Hardware — Quarterly
 

Figure 82. 
 Vendor Indices for Input/Output Devices — Quarterly
 

Figure 83. 
 Vendor Indices for Security Hardware — Quarterly
 

Figure 84. 
 Vendor Indices for Tablet PCs — Quarterly
 

Figure 85. 
 Vendor Indices for Mobile Phones — Quarterly
 

Figure 86. 
 Vendor Indices for Back-Office Software — Quarterly
 

Figure 87. 
 Vendor Indices for Office/Personal Productivity Software — Quarterly
 

Figure 88. 
 Vendor Indices for Collaboration/Content Management Software — Quarterly
 

Figure 89. 
 Retired Category — Vendor Indices for Collaborative/Personal Software — Quarterly
 

Figure 90. 
 Vendor Indices for Front-Office Software — Quarterly
 

Figure 91. 
 Vendor Indices for Application Development Software — Quarterly
 

Figure 92. 
 Vendor Indices for Application Integration Software — Quarterly
 

Figure 93. 
 Vendor Indices for Information Management Software — Quarterly
 

Figure 94. 
 Vendor Indices for Enterprise Systems Management Software — Quarterly
 

Figure 95. 
 Vendor Indices for Design/Engineering Software — Quarterly
 

Figure 96. 
 Vendor Indices for Security Software — Quarterly
 

Figure 97. 
 Vendor Indices for Network Equipment/Applications — Quarterly
 

Figure 98. 
 Vendor Indices for Mobile Services — Quarterly
 

Figure 99. 
 Vendor Indices for Fixed Voice/Data Services — Quarterly
 

Figure 100. 
 Vendor Indices for Fixed Voice/Data Services — Quarterly
 

Figure 101. 
 Vendor Indices for Hardware Maintenance/Support — Quarterly
 

Figure 102. 
 Vendor Indices for Software Maintenance/Support — Quarterly
 

Figure 103. 
 Vendor Indices for Consulting — Quarterly
 

Figure 104. 
 Vendor Indices for Application Development/Integration Services — Quarterly
 

Figure 105. 
 Vendor Indices for IT Management — Quarterly
 

Figure 106. 
 Vendor Indices for Process Management — Quarterly
 

Figure 107. 
 Vendor Indices for IT Training — Quarterly
 



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