Summary
ICT investment trends in Russia presents the findings from a survey of 155 Russian enterprises regarding their Information and Communications Technology (ICT) investment trends. The survey investigates how Russian enterprises currently allocate their ICT budgets across the core areas of enterprise ICT expenditure: hardware, software, IT services, communications, and consulting.
Key Findings
- Russian enterprises are investing reasonably in core technologies (hardware, software, and services) with hardware attracting the highest proportion of ICT budgets in both 2014 and 2015
- A weak economic growth outlook for Russia, owing to its fallout with Ukraine and souring relations with EU (European Union) counterparts, is expected to have some impact on enterprises overall ICT investments
- With regards to technology priorities, Russian enterprises are keen to invest in business intelligence (BI), security products, and cloud computing with the highest percentage of respondents planning to spend on these domains in the coming two years
Synopsis
The report illustrates the core technologies enterprises are investing in, including business intelligence, security products, and cloud computing. Understand the approach adopted by enterprises in Russia to purchase technology and get a better insight into ICT vendors and services providers when pitching their solutions to enterprises in Russia.
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 Russian rubles in areas such as data centers, applications, IT management, and the networks
- Which ICT functions Russian enterprises are interested in outsourcing
- Russian enterprises investment priorities based on their budget allocations across core technology categories such as business intelligence, security products, and cloud computing
- Factors that are influencing Russian enterprises investments in each technology category
- How Russian enterprises IT budgets are currently allocated across various segments within a technology category
- Russian 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 Russian enterprises preferred buying approaches
- Business and IT objectives that Russian enterprises are looking to achieve through their IT investment strategies
- Factors that are influencing Russian enterprises decisions to select an ICT provider
Reasons To Buy
- Understand how the Russian enterprise ICT landscape is set to change in 2015 to prioritize your target market
- Comprehend how ICT Russian rubles are being allocated by Russian 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 Russian enterprises
- Enhance your market segmentation with the included, detailed breakdown of opportunities within selected technology categories (business intelligence, security products, and cloud computing)
- Prioritize your focus areas by understanding which factors are influencing Russian enterprises decisions when selecting an ICT provider
- Understand the changes in customers priorities and identify the business and IT objectives that Russian enterprises are looking to achieve through their ICT investment strategies
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
1.4.1 Hardware budget breakdown
1.4.2 Software budget breakdowns
1.4.3 Third party IT services expenditure
1.4.4 Cloud computing budget
1.5 ICT budget allocation by function
1.6 Outsourced IT functions
2 ICT investment priorities and vendor satisfaction
2.1 Introduction
2.1.1 Business intelligence
2.1.2 Security products
2.1.3 Cloud computing
3 ICT procurement trends
3.1 Introduction
3.2 Business objectives and IT objectives influencing IT investment strategy
3.3 ICT provider selection
4 Summary
4.1 A rising need to achieve operational efficiency and gain differentiation is expected to motivate Russian enterprises to increase their ICT expenditure
5 Appendix
5.1 Definitions
5.2 Further reading
5.3 Contact the authors
List Of Tables
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List Of Figures
Figure 1: Russian enterprise ICT survey industry breakdown
Figure 2: Russian enterprise ICT survey breakdown by size band (number of employees)
Figure 3: Recent and expected ICT budget changes among Russian enterprises
Figure 4: Russian enterprises (external) ICT budget allocation, 2014 and 2015
Figure 5: Russian enterprises average hardware budget allocation
Figure 6: Average allocation of software budgets in Russian enterprise market
Figure 7: Russian enterprises average IT services budget allocation
Figure 8: Russian enterprises average cloud computing budget allocation by technology
Figure 9: Russian enterprises average cloud computing budget allocation by implementation type
Figure 10: Russian enterprises ICT budget allocation by function, 2014 and 2015
Figure 11: Outsourced IT functions - Russian enterprises current and future outsourcing priorities
Figure 12: Business intelligence - Russian enterprises current and future investment priorities
Figure 13: Business intelligence - selected primary provider and vendor satisfaction among Russian enterprises
Figure 14: Security products - Russian enterprises current and future investment priorities
Figure 15: Security products - selected primary provider and vendor satisfaction among Russian enterprises
Figure 16: Cloud computing - Russian enterprises current and future investment priorities
Figure 17: Cloud computing - selected primary provider and vendor satisfaction among Russian enterprises
Figure 18: Business objectives and IT objectives which influence Russian enterprises IT investment strategy
Figure 19: Factors influencing Russian enterprises decision to choose an ICT provider
