IT Trends for 2009 Survey Data
SURVEY DEMOGRAPHICS
This survey explored interest in and adoption of various relatively new IT technologies in 80 organizations worldwide. Forty-one percent of respondents hold senior management/policy making or IS/IT management titles, with consulting, project management, and software engineering/programming being among the other job titles reported. Fifty-three percent of responding organizations are headquartered in North America, 18% in Europe, and 20% in Asia/Pacific, with the remainder in South America, Africa, and the Middle East. The number of IT professionals working in respondents' organizations varies, with 25% reporting more than 1,000 IT professionals, 26% reporting between 100 and 1,000, and 49% reporting fewer than 100 (including 25% with fewer than 20). Responding organizations' annual IT budgets also varied, with 19% having IT budgets over US $100 million, 16% having IT budgets between $10 million and $100 million, 29% having IT budgets between $500,000 and $10 million, and the remaining 26% having IT budgets under $500,000 (10% of respondents did not know their annual IT budget figure).
Graph 1 -- How would you describe your current ITstaffing situation?
Graph 2 -- How would you describe your IT staffing plansfor the next year?
Graph 3 -- Do you currently outsource or are you planning to outsource work?
Graph 4 -- What kinds of work are you currently outsourcing orplanning to outsource? (Please check all that apply.)
Graph 5 -- For which IT skills are you hiring or will you be hiring? (Please select all that apply.)
Graph 6 -- How would you characterize business innovation in your organization?
Graph 7 -- What is your IT organization's role in business innovation?
Graph 8 -- To what extent do your software tools support business innovation? (Please check all that apply.)
Graph 9 -- To what extent is your organization actively pursuing each of the following trends?
Graph 10 -- What impedes adoption/expansion of SOA in your organization? (Please check all that apply.)
Graph 11 -- Does your organization have an enterprise architecture (EA) initiative(s) or program(s)?
Graph 12 -- What drives requirements for your EA? (Please check all that apply.)
Graph 13 -- What is the primary focus of EA in your organization?
Graph 14 -- For which of these purposes do you use business intelligence software? (Please check all that apply.)
Graph 15 -- Have you deployed open source applications?
Graph 16 -- Why have you not deployed open source applications? (Please check all that apply.)
Graph 17 -- To what extent is your organization looking at software as a service (SaaS)? (2009 only.)
Graph 18 -- Which IT skills are you planning to outsource? (Please select all that apply.)
Graph 19 -- How are you currently using Web services? (Please check all that apply.)
Graph 20 -- Does your organization have a service-oriented architecture (SOA) initiative(s) or program(s)?
Graph 21 -- What are the primary drivers behind your SOA initiative(s)? (Please check all that apply.)
Graph 22 -- Who owns requirements for your EA?
This month's installment of Cutter Benchmark Review is the fourth in our yearly series on IT trends and technologies for the coming year. As you know if you have been following CBR, at the beginning of every year we ask our practicing and academic contributors to take stock of current trends. Based on our benchmarking survey of investment priorities, we ask our contributors to explain the results and look ahead to extrapolate these to create some guidelines for our readers on how to tackle the new year in the IT shop.
