ICT investment trends in utilities
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A larger proportion of utilities have indicated that they are increasing their ICT spend in 2016 compared to the previous year.
Scope
ICT investment trends in utilities presents the findings from a survey of 112 utility companies regarding their Information & Communications Technology (ICT) investment trends. The survey investigates how utility companies currently allocate their ICT budgets across the core areas of enterprise ICT expenditure: hardware, software, IT services, communications, and consulting.
The report illustrates the core technologies that enterprises are investing in, including business intelligence, IoT, cloud computing, and network services. The survey also highlights the approach to purchasing technology adopted by utility companies. The report aims to provide a better insight to ICT vendors and service providers when pitching their solutions to utility companies. The report focuses on utility companies’ ICT expenditure trends for specific business areas and technologies, identifying the top three IT projects, and understanding the business challenges faced by organizations.
In particular, it provides an in-depth analysis of the following:
– How ICT budgets are set to change in 2016 in terms of their overall size
– Allocation across the core elements of IT spend, including hardware, software, services, communications, and consulting
– Distribution of ICT money in areas such as the networks, applications, service desk, and data centers
– Which ICT functions utility companies are interested in outsourcing
– Utility companies’ investment priorities based on their budget allocations across core technology categories such as cloud computing, business intelligence, network services, and security products.
– Factors that are influencing utility companies’ investments in each technology category
– How utility companies’ IT budgets are currently allocated across various segments within a technology category
– Utility companies’ distribution of their ICT budget across various segments within a technology category
– Vendor satisfaction ratings for various core and advanced technology categories
– Insight into utility companies’ preferred buying approaches
– Business objectives that utility companies are looking to achieve through their IT investment strategies
– Factors that are influencing utility companies’ decisions to select an ICT provider
Reasons to Buy
– Understand how the utility companies ICT landscape is set to change in 2016 to prioritize your target market
– Comprehend how ICT money are being allocated by utility companies in specific geographies and size bands to improve your market penetration
– Make effective business decisions by recognizing the opportunities within each of the core areas of ICT spend (hardware, software, IT services, telecommunications, and consulting)
– Realign your sales initiatives by understanding the current strategic objectives of utility companies
– Enhance your market segmentation with the included, detailed breakdown of opportunities within selected technology categories (business intelligence, security products, cloud computing, and network services)
– Prioritize your focus areas by understanding which factors are influencing utility companies’ decisions when selecting an ICT provider
– Understand the changes in customers’ priorities and identify the business objectives that utility companies are looking to achieve through their ICT investment strategies
EMC
HP
Microsoft
Informatica
Information Builders
NEC Corporation
Oracle
SAP
Micro Strategy
NTT Data
Tibco
Cisco
HP & Aruba
Huawei
Dell
Vnmware NSX
Brocade
Alcatel-Lucent
Avaya
Extreme Networks
Juniper Networks
Nuage Networks
Kaspersky
McAfee
F-Secure
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