Research Report: 2013 IT Spending Intentions Survey

The survey was designed to answer the following questions:

• What are organizations’ general spending plans for IT products and services in 2013 and beyond?
• How do spending plans vary by organization size, geographic region, industry, and other variables?
• What is the relationship between an organization’s current and future IT spending and its overall purchasing pattern for IT products and services?
• What business initiatives are currently having the greatest impact on IT spending?
• What is driving the changes between 2012 spending and 2013 planned spending?
• What do organizations identify as their most important IT priorities over the next 12 months?
• What factors will be most important in justifying IT investments to the business over the next 12 months?
• Within specific technology segments—such as cloud computing, virtualization, storage, networking, and security—which initiatives and technologies will sustain investment over the next 12 months?
• What percentage of 2013 IT budgets will be allocated to maintaining existing infrastructure as opposed to making new technology purchases and/or taking on new technology projects?
• To what extent are business professionals and groups (i.e., non-IT) becoming involved in technology evaluation and purchase decisions?

Survey participants represented a wide range of industries including manufacturing, financial services, health care, communications and media, retail, government, and business services. For more details, please see the Executive Summary of this report.