Gain global insights of ICT spend, technology adoption and investment priorities from Omdia's survey of 6,500+ senior ICT executives in 60+ countries.
Omdia interviewed over 6,500 senior ICT executives, in more than 60 countries, across multiple industries and 80 technologies, to give you insights into enterprise ICT spend and investment priorities.
Here you'll find a preview of the key findings:
When asked about the Covid-19 impact on their organizations’ revenue for 2021, healthcare, life sciences/pharmaceuticals & media executives expected some positive effects with 60%, 39%, and 38% anticipating higher revenue for 2021 respectively. Conversely, executives in other sectors such as construction, transport and logistics, higher education, and hospitality largely expect a negative impact.
IT budgets are not expected to grow significantly in 2021. 35% of respondents expected an increase in IT budgets for 2021 versus 30% whom expect a decrease. Executives plan to spend the largest share of budget (28%) on infrastructure and the lowest share on communications (22%). Within infrastructure, spending is heavily weighted towards spend on servers & storage.
When asked about the importance of competing technology concerns, executives cited managing security, identity and privacy as their greatest concern – with organizations in the banking, financial, and government industries ranking it particularly high on their list of priorities.
Over two-thirds of respondents report working with partners to deploy AI-solutions in their business. A much smaller portion are purchasing “off-the-shelf” solutions, indicating the need for customization in this still maturing market.
Currently 33% of workloads are operating at the edge, but in 18 months respondents expect a full 10% increase to 43% of workloads at the edge. Companies larger than $20bn in revenue anticipate seeing the greatest growth in workloads at the edge with a 12-point increase in 18 months.
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