ICT Priorities in France Enterprise ICT investment plans 2013

ICT Priorities in France – Enterprise ICT investment plans to 2013 report presents the findings from a survey of 153 French enterprises regarding their Information and Communication Technology (ICT) investment priorities. The survey investigates the core technologies which French enterprises are investing in, including the likes of enterprise applications, security, mobility, communications and collaboration, and Cloud Computing.

Introduction and Landscape

Why was the report written?
In order to provide deeper insights into French enterprises’ ICT investment priorities and strategic objectives.

What is the current market landscape and what is changing?
Although investment in core technologies has been the top priority in recent times, this trend is anticipated to change in the next two years.

What are the key drivers behind recent market changes?
More French enterprises are expected to shift their focus from core technologies to virtualized and cloud infrastructure in order to reduce cost, increase sustainability, enhance business efficiency, and gain hassle free services.

What makes this report unique and essential to read?
Kable Global ICT Intelligence has invested significant resources in order to interview CIOs and IT managers about their IT investment priorities. Very few IT analyst houses will have interviewed 150+ ICT decision makers in the French market in H2 2012.

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Key Features and Benefits

- Recognize French enterprises’ strategic objectives with regards to their ICT investments.

- Identify French enterprises’ investment priorities based on their budget allocations across core technology categories such as enterprise applications, security, mobility, communications and collaboration, and Cloud Computing, etc.

- Learn about the drivers that are influencing French enterprises’ investments in each technology category.

- Establish how French enterprises’ ICT budgets are currently allocated across various segments within a technology category.

- Gain insight into how French enterprises plan to change their ICT budget allocations across various segments within a technology category.

Key Market Issues

- Kable’s survey of ICT leaders finds that IT security and data privacy is the highest priority among the IT management across all French enterprises, with the highest average rating of X on a scale of 1 to 4.

With green IT gaining prominence, CIOs are trying to modify the ICT infrastructures of their organizations by leveraging new optimized technologies such as virtualization, cloud computing, and grid computing.

In the next two years, the trend of prioritizing investment in core business applications is anticipated to remain unchanged in France as enterprises are planning to continue their focus on financials and HR management applications.

- Mobility tends to be the area of relatively lower priority amongst enterprises in France, compared to the other core technology areas. The primary reason behind this could be the difficult business conditions accompanied by several IT security challenges.

X% of the survey respondents in France has invested in BI technologies as they focus on achieving competitive advantage and revenue growth. BI enables organizations to improve their decision making capabilities within fairly quick time frames, thereby increasing business agility and improving operational efficiency.

Key Highlights

- Identity and access management (IAM) currently has the highest penetration rate (X%) in the French market, followed by database security (X%), application security (X%), and network security (X%) solutions.

- Kable’s recent survey finds that most French organizations recognize the importance of communications and collaboration, which is evident from the fact that X% of respondents have already deployed communications and collaboration systems.

- Systems and network management and database management are expected to bring in higher investments from French enterprises with X% and X% of respondents intending to invest in these technologies respectively, in the next two years.

- Although Kable’s survey indicates that the priority of cloud computing is lower relative to other technologies in France, X% of enterprises respond that they have been investing in some form of cloud technology. The adoption of cloud technologies in the French market is on the rise as it is gaining prominence in both the private and public sectors.

- Despite persisting uncertainties surrounding the growth hopes in Europe, a vast majority of the respondents (about X%) from Kable’s H2 2012 survey have expressed their desire to increase their ICT budget in 2013.

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Netherlands ICT budget and staffing trends investment plans 2013

This report presents the findings from a survey of 82 Dutch enterprises regarding their Information and Communication Technology (ICT) budgets and staff allocation. The survey investigates how Dutch enterprises currently allocate their ICT budgets across the core areas of enterprise ICT spend, namely hardware, software, IT services, communications and consulting.

Introduction and Landscape

Why was the report written?

In order to provide a depth of insight into ICT vendors’ and service providers’ potential customers

What is the current market landscape and what is changing?
ICT spending in Dutch enterprises is expected to remain depressed due to the economic slowdown in the Euro zone, with many enterprises in the Netherlands continuing to hold back their ICT investments in 2013.

What are the key drivers behind recent market changes?
The Dutch economy is shrinking, being characterized by declines in various business sectors, falling exports, and low consumer confidence. Furthermore, the Dutch government’s severe austerity measures are expected to slow down the country’s economic recovery leading to lower ICT spending.

What makes this report unique and essential to read?
Kable Global ICT Intelligence has invested significant resources in order to interview CIOs and IT managers about their ICT Budgets. Very few IT analyst houses will have interviewed 80+ ICT decision makers in the Dutch market in H2 2012.

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Key Features and Benefits
Understand how ICT budgets are set to change in 2013 in terms of their overall size.

Appreciate how budgets are allocated across the core elements of ICT spend, including hardware, software, services, communications, and consulting.

Learn how ICT dollars are being spent in areas such as the data centre, applications, IT management, and the network.

Establish how IT staff are typically allocated within Dutch organizations.

Gain insight into with whom Dutch enterprises plan to spend their ICT Euros.

Key Market Issues

Dutch respondents are spending the highest proportion (X%) of their overall ICT budgets on data centres, indicating the importance of improving their ICT infrastructure.

To avoid additional overhead costs, Dutch enterprises are shifting their focus towards software as a service (SaaS), as it reduces the burden of application management and at the same time eases deployment.

A significant proportion of ICT hardware budget allocation is centred on Networking and communications equipment as cloud computing and enterprise mobility increasingly gaining traction.

The proportion of respondents expecting a slight or significant decrease in ICT spending will drop from X% to X% among SMEs, while the large enterprises expecting a similar trend will remain the same between 2012 and 2013.

The combined allocation for fixed and mobile voice amongst SMEs (X%) is higher than that of large enterprises (X%), as the latter place greater emphasis on investments in ‘Data’ to further strengthen their network capabilities.

Key Highlights

Although hardware will remain on top of enterprises’ priority lists in 2013, the percentage of the ICT budget allocated to hardware is slightly lower (X%) compared to in 2012 (X%). On the other hand, Dutch enterprises’ allocation of the ICT budget to software is expected to increase from X% in 2012 to X% in 2013.

The proportion of the ICT budget allocated to technology product vendors is expected to increase by X%, from X% in 2012 to X% in 2013 indicating that that they will continue to be Dutch enterprises’ preferred third-party for investing their ICT Euros.

Kable’s survey indicates that the largest proportion of IT staff members (X%) are being resourced on Applications, as Dutch enterprises believe that software applications enhance their business operations.

Software investment in the Netherlands has been primarily directed towards enterprise applications, which has the highest average allocation of X% of the total software budget in 2012 followed by application lifecycle (X%).

Dutch enterprises are spending a major portion of their IT services budgets on application development and integration, highlighting the fact that they are continuously looking to integrate their legacy business applications with more advanced mobility and cloud based solutions.

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Table of Content

1 Trends in ICT budgets
1.1 Introduction
1.2 Survey demographics
1.3 ICT budget changes
1.4 ICT budget allocation by core technology area
1.5 ICT budget allocation by function
1.6 ICT spending by entity
1.7 IT staff distribution
2 Detailed ICT budget allocations
2.1 Introduction
2.2 Hardware budget breakdown
2.3 Software budget breakdowns
2.4 Third party IT Services expenditure
2.5 Telecommunications budget
3 Summary
3.1 Dutch enterprises are cautious about their ICT spending, given the difficulties in the Dutch economy
4 Appendix
4.1 Definitions
4.2 Further reading
4.3 Contact the authors

France ICT Budget and Staffing Trends in Enterprise ICT Investment Plans to 2013

This premium report, compiled and published by Kable, presents the findings from a survey of 153 French enterprises regarding their Information & Communication Technology (ICT) budgets and staff allocation. The survey investigates how ICT companies in France currently allocate their ICT budgets across the core areas of enterprise ICT spend, namely hardware, software, ICT services, communications and consulting.

The purpose of the report is to provide a depth of insight into ICT vendors’ and service providers’ potential customers in the French market. Kable has invested significant resources in order to interview an exhaustive range of ICT decision makers in France about their ICT procurement strategies, leading to the production of a premium ICT report that few other ICT analyst houses will be able to match for the breadth of its respondent panel.

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Kable’s survey shows that enterprise ICT spending in France is anticipated to follow a moderate upward trend despite persisting economic weakness in the Euro zone, with 31% of French enterprises likely to increase their ICT budget slightly in 2013. The number of French companies forecasting a decrease in their ICT budgets will remain low in 2013. Overall, the French enterprise ICT market for business and purchases of technology goods and advanced IT services is growing at a modest pace and this is set to continue in 2013.

Reasons to buy

- Understand how ICT budgets in France are set to change in 2013.

- Identify how ICT budgets are allocated across the core elements of ICT spend, including hardware, software, services, communications and consulting.

- Gain insight into how French ICT budgets are being spent in areas such as the data centre, applications, ICT management and networks.

- Establish how ICT staff are typically allocated within French organizations.

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Table of Content

1 Trends in ICT budgets
1.1 Introduction
1.2 Survey demographics
1.3 ICT budget changes
1.4 ICT budget allocation by core technology area
1.5 ICT budget allocation by function
1.6 ICT spending by entity
1.7 IT staff distribution

2 Detailed ICT budget allocations
2.1 Introduction
2.2 Hardware budget breakdown
2.3 Software budget breakdowns
2.4 Third party IT Services expenditure
2.5 Telecommunications budget

3 Summary
3.1 The Government's support for technological innovation is creating growth opportunities for ICT vendors in France

4 Appendix
4.1 Definitions
4.2 Further reading
4.3 Contact the authors

List of Tables

Table 1: French enterprise ICT survey industry breakdown
Table 2: French enterprise ICT survey breakdown by size band (number of employees)
Table 3: Recent and expected ICT budget changes among French enterprises
Table 4: French enterprises' (external) ICT budget allocation in 2012
Table 5: French enterprises' (external) ICT budget allocation in 2013
Table 6: French enterprises' ICT budget allocation by function, 2012 and 2013
Table 7: French enterprises' ICT budget allocation by entity in 2012
Table 8: French enterprises' ICT budget allocation by entity in 2013
Table 9: Average allocation of full-time IT staff members in French enterprises
Table 10: French enterprises' average hardware budget allocation
Table 11: Average allocation of software budgets in the French enterprise market
Table 12: French enterprises' average software budget allocation by technology
Table 13: French enterprises' average IT services budget allocation
Table 14: French enterprises' average IT consulting services budget allocation
Table 15: French enterprises' average telecommunications budget allocation

List of Figures

Figure 1: French enterprise ICT survey industry breakdown
Figure 2: French enterprise ICT survey breakdown by size band (number of employees)
Figure 3: Recent and expected ICT budget changes among French enterprises
Figure 4: French enterprises' (external) ICT budget allocation in 2012
Figure 5: French enterprises' (external) ICT budget allocation in 2013
Figure 6: French enterprises' ICT budget allocation by function, 2012 and 2013
Figure 7: French enterprises' ICT budget allocation by entity in 2012
Figure 8: French enterprises' ICT budget allocation by entity in 2013
Figure 9: Average allocation of full-time IT staff members in French enterprises
Figure 10: French enterprises' average hardware budget allocation
Figure 11: Average allocation of software budgets in the French enterprise market
Figure 12: French enterprises' average software budget allocation by technology
Figure 13: French enterprises' average IT services budget allocation
Figure 14: French enterprises' average IT consulting services budget allocation
Figure 15: French enterprises' average telecommunications budget allocation