This report presents the findings from a survey of 65 South African enterprises regarding their Information & Communication Technology (ICT) budgets and staff allocation. The survey investigates how South African enterprises currently allocate their ICT budgets across the core areas of enterprise ICT spend, namely hardware, software, IT services, communications and consulting.... Research Beam Model: Research Beam Product ID: 111249 1250 USD New
ICT budget and staffing trends in South Africa - Enterprise ICT investment plans to 2013
 
 

ICT budget and staffing trends in South Africa - Enterprise ICT investment plans to 2013

  • Category : ICT & Media
  • Published On : February   2013
  • Pages : 34
  • Publisher : Kable Market Research
 
 
 
Synopsis
This report presents the findings from a survey of 65 South African enterprises regarding their Information & Communication Technology (ICT) budgets and staff allocation. The survey investigates how South African enterprises currently allocate their ICT budgets across the core areas of enterprise ICT spend, namely hardware, software, IT services, communications and consulting.
Scope
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 Rands are being spent in areas such as the data centre, applications, IT management and the network.

Establish how IT staff are typically allocated within South African organizations.

Gain insight into with whom South African enterprises plan to spend their ICT Rands.
Summary
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?
Despite global economic uncertainty, South Africa's ICT sector is expected to continue to show strong growth in the future, primarily driven by high spending on hardware and mobile communications by enterprises in order to build better ICT infrastructures.

What are the key drivers behind recent market changes?
Investments in hardware have been at a high level in South Africa, driven by increased adoption of client computing and network infrastructure technologies. The growing availability of wired and wireless access, along with decreasing communications costs, has also been driving sales of notebooks, tablets, and smart phone devices among enterprises of all sizes.

What makes this report unique and essential to read?
Kable Market Research Market Research has invested significant resources in order to interview CIOs and IT managers about their IT Budgets. Very few IT analyst houses will have interviewed 60+ ICT decision makers in the South African market in H2 2012.
Reasons To Buy
ICT investments are, however, mostly directed towards improving traditional ICT infrastructures rather than investing in new technologies.

The proportion of the ICT budget spent on communications is expected to decline by X% in 2013 compared to 2012.

Kable Market Research’s recent survey shows that enterprises are not willing to make additional investments with local resellers of technology products and specialist outsourcing vendors.

The gradual increase in popularity of hosted data centers and cloud infrastructures as enterprises look to save cost is going to impact the investment on core technologies.

Kable Market Research expects the percentage of the telecommunications budget spent on converged voice and data networks to continue to remain low due to the unavailability of advanced network infrastructure to support the services.

Table of Contents
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 SMEs are leading the South African ICT sector on a growth trajectory in 2013
4 Appendix
4.1 Definitions
4.2 Further reading
4.3 Contact the authors

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

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

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