ICT investment trends in Italy; Enterprise ICT spending patterns through to the end of 2016

Summary
ICT investment trends in Italy presents the findings from a survey of 163 Italian enterprises regarding their Information and Communications Technology (ICT) investment trends. The survey investigates how Italian enterprises currently allocate their ICT budgets across the core areas of enterprise ICT expenditure: hardware, software, IT services, communications, and consulting.

Key Findings
- To streamline their cost of operations and achieve differentiation in the market, Italian enterprises are set to increase their ICT budget

- Enterprises in Italy are keen to invest in infrastructure services such as security and desktop services, in order to enhance existing systems and develop new technologies

- Kables survey indicates that enterprises in Italy are increasingly using virtualization technologies to reduce their information storage, IT maintenance and support, and energy costs

Synopsis
The report illustrates the core technologies Italian enterprises are investing in, including mobility, communications and collaboration, and green IT and virtualization. Understand the approach adopted by enterprises in Italy to purchase technology and get a better insight into ICT vendors and services providers when pitching their solutions to enterprises in Italy.

In particular, it provides an in-depth analysis of the following:

- How ICT budgets are set to change in 2015 in terms of their overall size

- Allocation across the core elements of IT spend, including hardware, software, services, communications, and consulting

- Distribution of ICT Euro in areas such as data centers, applications, IT management, and the networks

- Which ICT functions Italian enterprises are interested in outsourcing

- Italian enterprises investment priorities based on their budget allocations across core technology categories such as mobility, communications and collaboration, and green IT and virtualization

- Factors that are influencing Italian enterprises investments in each technology category

- How Italian enterprises IT budgets are currently allocated across various segments within a technology category

- Italian enterprises distribution of their ICT budget across various segments within a technology category

- Vendor satisfaction ratings for various core and advanced technology categories

- Insight into Italian enterprises preferred buying approaches

- Business and IT objectives that Italian enterprises are looking to achieve through their IT investment strategies

- Factors that are influencing Italian enterprises decisions to select an ICT provider

Reasons To Buy
- Understand how Italian enterprise ICT landscape is set to change in 2015 to prioritize your target market

- Comprehend how ICT Euro are being allocated by Italian enterprises in specific verticals 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 Italian enterprises

- Enhance your market segmentation with the included, detailed breakdown of opportunities within selected technology categories (mobility, communications and collaboration, and green IT and virtualization)

- Prioritize your focus areas by understanding which factors are influencing Italian enterprises decisions when selecting an ICT provider

- Understand the changes in customers priorities and identify the business and IT objectives that Italian enterprises are looking to achieve through their ICT investment strategies

Key Highlights
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