Synopsis
This report presents the findings from a survey of 164 educational institutions regarding their Information & Communication Technology (ICT) budgets and staff allocation. The survey investigates how educational institutions currently allocate their ICT budgets across the core areas of 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 money is being spent in areas such as the data centre, applications, IT management and the network.
Establish how IT staff are typically allocated within educational institutions.
Gain insight into with whom educational institutions plan to spend their ICT money.
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?
The education sector has come a long way in terms of ICT adoption, from the selective usage of technology to mainstream adoption. The use of ICT promises to change the way that education is imparted, with institutions gradually moving away from printed textbooks to adopt digital content. Institutions’ commitment to switch to online learning platforms requires them to make extensive investments in upgrading their technology infrastructure.
What are the key drivers behind recent market changes?
The need to roll out digital content is driving educational institutions to make sizeable investments in their core ICT categories of hardware, software, and IT services. The growing demand for online, mobile and flexible learning systems are influencing the ICT demand in this sector.
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 160+ ICT decision makers in the education sector in H2 2012.
Reasons To Buy
Educational institutions (mostly in the higher education segment), are prioritizing their investments in data centres. They are allocating the largest proportion of their total ICT budgets to their data centres in 2013.
As the number of users (students and staff ) accessing network resources is increasing, educational institutions’ ICT budget allocation for improving the network infrastructure is expected to remain high in 2013.
Kable Market Research’s survey shows that educational institutions are allocating a significant proportion of their hardware budgets on setting up and maintaining their server infrastructure, which runs their virtual learning environments and other educational applications.
Kable Market Research’s survey shows that institutions are also investing a substantial proportion of their ICT budgets on educational software (such as curriculum and e-learning software).
The growing use of mobile devices have increased IT management and security issues for institutions and as a result institutions are spending on average 14% and 12% of their total software budgets on IT management and security software.
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 Educational institutions’ ICT investments are driven by their need to adopt digital content and devise cost effective ways of delivering learning
4 Appendix
4.1 Definitions
4.2 Further reading
4.3 Contact the authors
List Of Tables
Table 1: Educational institutions – ICT survey geographic breakdown
Table 2: Educational institutions – ICT survey breakdown by size band (number of staff and students)
Table 3: Recent and expected ICT budget changes among educational institutions
Table 4: Educational institutions’ (external) ICT budget allocation, 2012 and 2013
Table 5: Educational institutions’ ICT budget allocation by function, 2012 and 2013
Table 6: Educational institutions’ (external) ICT budget allocation by entity, 2012 and 2013
Table 7: Average allocation of full-time IT staff members in educational institutions
Table 8: Educational institutions’ average hardware budget allocation
Table 9: Average allocation of software budgets in educational institutions
Table 10: Educational institutions’ average software budget allocation by technology
Table 11: Educational institutions’ average IT services budget allocation
Table 12: Educational institutions’ average IT consulting services budget allocation
Table 13: Educational institutions’ average telecommunications budget allocation
List Of Figures
Figure 1: Educational institutions – ICT survey geographic breakdown
Figure 2: Educational institutions – ICT survey breakdown by size band (number of staff and students)
Figure 3: Recent and expected ICT budget changes among educational institutions
Figure 4: Educational institutions’ (external) ICT budget allocation, 2012 and 2013
Figure 5: Educational institutions’ ICT budget allocation by function, 2012 and 2013
Figure 6: Educational institutions’ ICT budget allocation by entity, 2012 and 2013
Figure 7: Average allocation of full-time IT staff members in educational institutions
Figure 8: Educational institutions’ average hardware budget allocation
Figure 9: Average allocation of software budgets in educational institutions
Figure 10: Educational institutions’ average software budget allocation by technology
Figure 11: Educational institutions’ average IT services budget allocation
Figure 12: Educational institutions’ average IT consulting services budget allocation
Figure 13: Educational institutions’ average telecommunications budget allocation
