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IT Watch: April 2005
22 April 2005
 
Brian Smith   Paul A. Schwarz  

Spending is under budget in Q1, but spending plans appear to be delayed rather than cancelled. Enterprise spending on IT in Q1 is 3.7 percent less than for the same period last year. Typical optimism about future IT budget growth fades slightly.








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Table of Contents


1.0
    
 IT Watch: What's New

1.1
    
 Effect of Consolidation Among IT Vendors on IT Spending
1.2
    
 Effect of HP's Management Changes on Vendor Choice

2.0
    
 Aggregate Technology Demand Indices Fall in First Quarter

3.0
    
 Top-Level Indices: Current Demand and Projected Demand

3.1
    
 Current Demand Indices
3.2
    
 Projected Demand Indices

4.0
    
 Budget Allocations by Product/Service Category

5.0
    
 Deployment Status of Emerging Technologies

6.0
    
 IT Watch: An Overview of Product/Service Categories and Vendors Tracked

7.0
    
 2004 Spending Recap

8.0
    
 Vendor Purchasing Incidence Statistics

8.1
    
 Hardware Vendor Purchasing Incidence
8.2
    
 Software Vendor Purchasing Incidence
8.3
    
 Networking and Telecommunications Vendor Purchasing Incidence
8.4
    
 IT Services Vendor Purchasing Incidence

9.0
    
 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. 
 Effect of Consolidation of IT Providers on IT Spending
 

Figure 2. 
 Influence of HP's Senior Management Change on Vendor Choice by Company Size
 

Figure 3. 
 Current and Projected Demand (13-Week Weighted Index) — Aggregate
 

Figure 4. 
 2005 IT Spending vs. Budgets by Company Size
 

Figure 5. 
 Current Demand by Sector
 

Figure 6. 
 Current Demand for Hardware
 

Figure 7. 
 Current Demand for Software
 

Figure 8. 
 Current Demand for Networking and Telecommunications
 

Figure 9. 
 Current Demand for IT Services
 

Figure 10. 
 Projected Demand by Sector
 

Figure 11. 
 Mean Allocation of Hardware Budgets by Vertical
 

Figure 12. 
 Mean Allocation of Hardware Budgets by Company Size
 

Figure 13. 
 Mean Allocation of Software Budgets by Vertical
 

Figure 14. 
 Mean Allocation of Software Budgets by Company Size
 

Figure 15. 
 Mean Allocation of Networking and Telecommunications Budgets by Vertical
 

Figure 16. 
 Mean Allocation of Networking and Telecommunications Budgets by Company Size
 

Figure 17. 
 Mean Allocation of IT Services Budgets by Vertical
 

Figure 18. 
 Mean Allocation of IT Services Budgets by Company
 

Figure 19. 
 Deployment Status of Technologies for Companies With $500 Million or More in Revenue
 

Figure 20. 
 Deployment Status of Technologies for Large Companies
 

Figure 21. 
 Deployment Status of Technologies for Midsize Companies
 

Figure 22. 
 Deployment Status of Technologies for Small Companies
 

Figure 23. 
 Hardware Vendors Tracked by Category
 

Figure 24. 
 Software Vendors Tracked by Category
 

Figure 25. 
 Software Vendors Tracked by Category — Continued
 

Figure 26. 
 Networking and Telecommunications Vendors Tracked by Category
 

Figure 27. 
 IT Services Vendors Tracked by Category
 

Figure 28. 
 IT Services Vendors Tracked by Category — Continued
 

Figure 29. 
 2004 IT Spending vs. Budgets by Company Size
 

Figure 30. 
 2004 IT Spending vs. Budgets — Magnitude of Percentage Difference
 

Figure 31. 
 Reasons for Spending Less on Hardware in 2004 Than Was Budgeted
 

Figure 32. 
 Reasons for Spending Less on Hardware in 2004 Than Was Budgeted by Company Size
 

Figure 33. 
 Reasons for Spending Less on Software in 2004 Than Was Budgeted
 

Figure 34. 
 Reasons for Spending Less on Software in 2004 Than Was Budgeted by Company Size
 

Figure 35. 
 Reasons for Spending Less on Networking and Telecommunications in 2004 Than Was Budgeted
 

Figure 36. 
 Reasons for Spending Less on Networking and Telecommunications in 2004 Than Was Budgeted by Company Size
 

Figure 37. 
 Reasons for Spending Less on IT Services in 2004 Than Was Budgeted
 

Figure 38. 
 Reasons for Spending Less on IT Services in 2004 Than Was Budgeted by Company Size
 

Figure 39. 
 How Respondents Characterize Cancelled IT Services Contracts
 

Figure 40. 
 How Respondents Characterize Cancelled IT Services Contracts by Company Size
 

Figure 41. 
 Reasons for Spending More in 2004 Than Was Budgeted
 

Figure 42. 
 Reasons for Spending More in 2004 Than Was Budgeted by Company Size
 

Figure 43. 
 Vendor Purchasing Incidence Estimates: Hardware — Servers
 

Figure 44. 
 Vendor Purchasing Incidence Estimates: Hardware — Desktops
 

Figure 45. 
 Vendor Purchasing Incidence Estimates: Hardware — Notebooks
 

Figure 46. 
 Vendor Purchasing Incidence Estimates: Hardware — Handhelds
 

Figure 47. 
 Vendor Purchasing Incidence Estimates: Hardware — Storage
 

Figure 48. 
 Vendor Purchasing Incidence Estimates: Hardware — Input/Output Devices
 

Figure 49. 
 Vendor Purchasing Incidence Estimates: Hardware — Security
 

Figure 50. 
 Vendor Purchasing Incidence Estimates: Hardware — Tablet PCs
 

Figure 51. 
 Vendor Purchasing Incidence Estimates: Hardware — Mobile Phones
 

Figure 52. 
 Vendor Purchasing Incidence Estimates: Software — Back-Office
 

Figure 53. 
 Vendor Purchasing Incidence Estimates: Software — Office/Personal Productivity
 

Figure 54. 
 Vendor Purchasing Incidence Estimates: Software — Collaboration/Content Management
 

Figure 55. 
 Vendor Purchasing Incidence Estimates: Software — Front-Office
 

Figure 56. 
 Vendor Purchasing Incidence Estimates: Software — Application Development
 

Figure 57. 
 Vendor Purchasing Incidence Estimates: Software — Application Integration
 

Figure 58. 
 Vendor Purchasing Incidence Estimates: Software — Information Management
 

Figure 59. 
 Vendor Purchasing Incidence Estimates: Software — Enterprise Systems Management
 

Figure 60. 
 Vendor Purchasing Incidence Estimates: Software — Design/Engineering
 

Figure 61. 
 Vendor Purchasing Incidence Estimates: Software — Security
 

Figure 62. 
 Vendor Purchasing Incidence Estimates: Networking and Telecommunications — Network Equipment/Applications
 

Figure 63. 
 Vendor Purchasing Incidence Estimates: Networking and Telecommunications — Mobile Services
 

Figure 64. 
 Vendor Purchasing Incidence Estimates: Networking and Telecommunications — Fixed Voice/Data Services
 

Figure 65. 
 Vendor Purchasing Incidence Estimates: IT Services — Hardware Maintenance/Support
 

Figure 66. 
 Vendor Purchasing Incidence Estimates: IT Services — Software Maintenance/Support
 

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

Figure 68. 
 Vendor Purchasing Incidence Estimates: IT Services — Application Development/Integration Services
 

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

Figure 70. 
 Vendor Purchasing Incidence Estimates: IT Services — Process Management
 

Figure 71. 
 Vendor Purchasing Incidence Estimates: IT Services — IT Training
 

Figure 72. 
 Vendor Summary Indices (Accenture to Mercury) — Quarterly
 

Figure 73. 
 Vendor Summary Indices (Microsoft to Xerox) — Quarterly
 

Figure 74. 
 Overall and Sector Indices — Quarterly
 

Figure 75. 
 Product Indices — Hardware — Quarterly
 

Figure 76. 
 Product Indices — Software — Quarterly
 

Figure 77. 
 Product Indices — Networking and Telecommunications — Quarterly
 

Figure 78. 
 Product Indices — IT Services — Quarterly
 

Figure 79. 
 Vendor Indices for Servers — Quarterly
 

Figure 80. 
 Vendor Indices for Desktops — Quarterly
 

Figure 81. 
 Vendor Indices for Notebooks — Quarterly
 

Figure 82. 
 Vendor Indices for Handhelds — Quarterly
 

Figure 83. 
 Vendor Indices for Storage Hardware — Quarterly
 

Figure 84. 
 Vendor Indices for Input/Output Devices — Quarterly
 

Figure 85. 
 Vendor Indices for Security Hardware — Quarterly
 

Figure 86. 
 Vendor Indices for Tablet PCs — Quarterly
 

Figure 87. 
 Vendor Indices for Mobile Phones — Quarterly
 

Figure 88. 
 Vendor Indices for Back-Office Software — Quarterly
 

Figure 89. 
 Vendor Indices for Office/Personal Productivity Software — Quarterly
 

Figure 90. 
 Vendor Indices for Collaboration/Content Management Software — Quarterly
 

Figure 91. 
 Vendor Indices for Front-Office Software — Quarterly
 

Figure 92. 
 Vendor Indices for Application Development Software — Quarterly
 

Figure 93. 
 Vendor Indices for Application Integration Software — Quarterly
 

Figure 94. 
 Vendor Indices for Information Management Software — Quarterly
 

Figure 95. 
 Vendor Indices for Enterprise Systems Management Software — Quarterly
 

Figure 96. 
 Vendor Indices for Design/Engineering Software — Quarterly
 

Figure 97. 
 Vendor Indices for Security Software — Quarterly
 

Figure 98. 
 Vendor Indices for Network Equipment/Applications — Quarterly
 

Figure 99. 
 Vendor Indices for Mobile 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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