Research

Abstract:

Despite global macroeconomic conditions, aggressive technology investments are expected to continue among more digitally transformed organizations. See highlights from research into these trends by TechTarget’s Enterprise Strategy Group with this infographic, 2023 Technology Spending Intentions.

Research Objectives

Ascertain IT budget outlook for 2023 overall and for specific technologies. Determine key business and technology priorities driving 2023 spending plans. Establish a profile of digitally mature companies in terms of the technologies and processes underlying their IT strategies. Monitor YoY trends with respect to technology adoption and changing customer preferences.

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Determine key challenges organizations face deploying and leveraging data protection mechanisms for their SaaS environments. Understand the education and best practices gaps that exist in protecting SaaS environments, with specific focus on key capabilities and data protection SLAs. Gain insights into key trends and requirements for successful high availability and data protection strategies for SaaS environments. Gauge end-users’ data protection knowledge and challenges for specific SaaS environments.

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Determine the extent to which organizations incorporate security into developer workflows. Understand the challenges organizations face with faster cloud-native development lifecycles. Gain insights into what types of solutions are most effective at securing software without slowing development processes. Gauge buyer preferences for vendor solutions, how solutions are deployed, and how to reduce work across teams.

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Explore new research into how security operations centers are coping with the massive scale needed to meet modern demands with this infographic, SOC Modernization and the Role of XDR.

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IT suppliers' environmental, social, and governance (ESG) program status is a new and important evaluation factor for buyers.

See data behind this emerging trend with this free ESG Infographic, The Role of ESG Programs in IT Decision Making.

Research Objectives

Examine the people, processes, and technology supporting the modernization of security operations. Identify key value points, the metrics to back up those value points, and what’s expected from both products and managed services for XDR and SOC modernization. Determine current perception and role of XDR as a component of security operations modernization efforts. Explore strategies used to automate triage, speed investigations, and help organizations find unknown threats.

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Measure the impact of environmental, social, and governance (ESG) initiatives on the IT evaluation and purchase process. Identify the groups within organizations most responsible for adhering to ESG requirements as part of IT purchases. Highlight the costs and benefits that organizations have experienced as a result of complying with ESG initiatives. Determine which vendors/brands are perceived as strong in terms of ESG and which are viewed as laggards.

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In order to gain insight into how environmental, social, and governance (ESG) initiatives are impacting IT purchases, Enterprise Strategy Group (also ESG) surveyed 400 IT professionals at organizations in North America (US and Canada), UK, Singapore, Australia, and New Zealand involved in IT product and service purchase decisions.

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The need to collect and analyze data generated at edge locations is playing an increasingly important role in enabling organizations to improve quality, deliver enhanced experiences (both customer and employee), and gather deeper insights into the business. To understand how IT organizations are leveraging and optimizing their use of important edge sites, ESG surveyed IT professionals responsible for their organization’s edge computing applications, tools, policies, and procedures.