... with cloud-based solutions it is much too easy to fall into the trap of taking a short-term, tactical approach — lured by the seemingly attractive low per-user costs," said Carol Hardcastle, research vice president at Gartner. "Such an approach actually leads to increased total costs once the additional ...
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... appropriate operational systems' data stores.
A few enterprises have actually reported relieving their sales force of the responsibility for selling low-margin maintenance items, and instead providing their customer service teams with sales training to enable them to sell these items, both during service ...
... tablets faded.” Ms. Kitagawa said.
The PC market continued to be tough for many vendors. Economies of scale matter tremendously in this high-volume, low-profit market, which is forcing some vendors, such as Sony, out of the market. In contrast, all of the top five vendors, except Acer, registered year-over-year ...
... said Mr. Raskino. "Digital is strongly associated with innovation, in front of and for the customer. Two years ago, our 2012 CEO survey found CIOs were low on the list of perceived innovation leaders. Over the last decade, CIOs and the IT function in general have often been tasked as IT cost managers and ...
... market reflects the saturation in selected consumer segments where they can afford PCs. In the meantime, consumers who don’t have PCs will likely buy low priced tablet. This is a one of the major reasons for the slow growth in PC shipments in the emerging market.”
For the first time, the sum of the top ...
... that the IT budget at enterprises in China is much lower than the global average. This means that the high increase of IT budget is coming from a very low base.
While globally 47 percent of CIOs believe they have the digital leadership responsibility for their business, only 33 percent of CIOs in China ...
... Q414 results include IBM x86 sales. IBM’s Q414 results include only non x86 servers.
Source: Gartner (March 2015)
"Although revenue growth was in low single digits, and server shipments were constrained, 2014 was a year where the market in EMEA returned to consistent growth," said Mr. Rasit. "We expect ...
... expected to grow just 0.9% on average in 2020, compared with 2.8% for the overall sample of organizations. This means fragile IT enterprises that have a low budget to begin with will suffer permanent structural damage following a disruption.
“Although a downturn is not the likely scenario through 2020, the ...
... experience as much growth as the robust consumer PC market. In light of component shortages and increasing freight costs, the company also pulled away from low-margin consumer products more than ever before.
Regional Overview
The U.S. market saw strong growth of 24.1% compared to a year ago. Echoing global ...