Summary Finnish enterprises are prioritizing investment in various ICT domains in 2015 to be able to respond to fast changing business environment. Additionally, business investments are expected to recover slowly, over the backdrop of new structural reforms, fiscal consolidation, and government investments Key Findings - Kable's survey shows that Finnish enterprises are continuously looking to improve their competitive edge with sustained expenditure on advanced applications, hardware, and IT services - In order to take precautions against thefts and security breaches, Finnish enterprises are moving their data onto the private cloud - Financial stability remains the most important criterion when choosing an ICT provider Synopsis ICT investment trends in Finland presents the findings from a survey of 37 Finnish enterprises regarding their Information and Communications Technology (ICT) investment trends. The survey investigates how Finnish enterprises currently allocate their ICT budgets across the core areas of enterprise ICT expenditure: hardware, software, IT services, communications, and consulting. The report illustrates the core technologies enterprises are investing in, including enterprise application, business intelligence, green IT and virtualization, mobility, and communications and... Research Beam Model: Research Beam Product ID: 332227 2995 USD New
ICT investment trends in Finland; Enterprise ICT spending patterns through to the end of 2016, Forecast & Opportunities - Research Beam
 
 

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

  • Category : ICT & Media
  • Published On : September   2015
  • Pages : 28
  • Publisher : Kable Market Research
 
 
 
Summary
Finnish enterprises are prioritizing investment in various ICT domains in 2015 to be able to respond to fast changing business environment. Additionally, business investments are expected to recover slowly, over the backdrop of new structural reforms, fiscal consolidation, and government investments

Key Findings
- Kable's survey shows that Finnish enterprises are continuously looking to improve their competitive edge with sustained expenditure on advanced applications, hardware, and IT services

- In order to take precautions against thefts and security breaches, Finnish enterprises are moving their data onto the private cloud

- Financial stability remains the most important criterion when choosing an ICT provider

Synopsis
ICT investment trends in Finland presents the findings from a survey of 37 Finnish enterprises regarding their Information and Communications Technology (ICT) investment trends. The survey investigates how Finnish enterprises currently allocate their ICT budgets across the core areas of enterprise ICT expenditure: hardware, software, IT services, communications, and consulting.

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

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 Euros in areas such as the networks, applications, service desk, and data centers

- Which ICT functions Finnish enterprises are interested in outsourcing

- Finnish enterprises' investment priorities based on their budget allocations across core technology categories such as enterprise applications, business intelligence, green IT and virtualization, mobility, and communications and collaboration

- Factors that are influencing Finnish enterprises' investments in each technology category

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

- Finnish 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 Finnish enterprises' preferred buying approaches

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

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

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

- Comprehend how ICT Euros are being allocated by Finnish 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 Finnish enterprises

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

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

- Understand the changes in customers' priorities and identify the business and IT objectives that Finnish 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 Enterprise applications
2.1.2 Business intelligence
2.1.3 Green IT and virtualization
2.1.4 Mobility
2.1.5 Communications and collaboration
3 ICT procurement trends
3.1 Introduction
3.2 Vendor satisfaction ratings for the following technologies
3.3 Business objectives and IT objectives influencing IT investment strategy
3.4 ICT provider selection
4 Summary
4.1 Finnish enterprises are prioritizing investments across various ICT domains in 2015 to achieve competitiveness
5 Appendix
5.1 Definitions
5.2 Further reading
5.3 Contact the authors

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List Of Figures
Figure 1: Finnish enterprise ICT survey industry breakdown
Figure 2: Finnish enterprise ICT survey breakdown by size band (number of employees)
Figure 3: Recent and expected ICT budget changes among Finnish enterprises
Figure 4: Finnish enterprises' (external) ICT budget allocation, 2014 and 2015
Figure 5: Finnish enterprises' average hardware budget allocation
Figure 6: Average allocation of software budgets in Finnish enterprise market
Figure 7: Finnish enterprises' average IT services budget allocation
Figure 8: Finnish enterprises' average cloud computing budget allocation by technology
Figure 9: Finnish enterprises' average cloud computing budget allocation by implementation type
Figure 10: Finnish enterprises' ICT budget allocation by function, 2014 and 2015
Figure 11: Outsourced IT functions - Finnish enterprises' current and future outsourcing priorities
Figure 12: Enterprise applications - Finnish enterprises' current and future investment priorities
Figure 14: Business Intelligence - Finnish enterprises' current and future investment priorities
Figure 14: Green IT and virtualization - Finnish enterprises' current and future investment priorities
Figure 16: Mobility - Finnish enterprises' current and future investment priorities
Figure 16: Communications and collaboration - Finnish enterprises' current and future investment priorities
Figure 17: Vendor satisfaction ratings for the following technologies among Finnish enterprises
Figure 18: Business objectives and IT objectives which influence Finnish enterprises' IT investment strategy
Figure 19: Factors influencing Finnish enterprises' decision to choose an ICT provider
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