Poor growth for global IT spend

Poor growth for global IT spend

Worldwide IT spending is projected to total $3,7-trillion in 2013, a 2% increase from 2012 spending of $3,6-trillion, according to the latest forecast by Gartner. Last quarter, Gartner’s forecast for 2013 IT spending growth in US dollars was 4,1%. The 2,1...

Cannibalisation slows global IT spend

IT spending was slightly below expectations in the second half of 2012 and the first quarter of 2013, with economic uncertainty surrounding the US government sequester, European debt crisis and weakening GDP in China resulting in volatile spending patterns across most...

Consumer technology influences IT spend

Fewer than 10% of business decision-makers outside of IT are not spending their own budget on technology services, and of the 90% that are, almost a quarter of them earmark 21% or more of their unit’s expenditures for IT, according to new research from...
IT spending set to pick up

IT spending set to pick up

Worldwide IT spending is projected to total $3,8-trillion in 2013, a 4,1% increase from 2012 spending of $3,6-trillion, according to the latest forecast by Gartner. Currency effects are less pronounced this quarter with growth in constant dollars forecast at 4% for...

IT spend shrugs off 2012 woes

IT spending remained broadly strong throughout a difficult end to 2012, as business confidence waned in the shadow of the “fiscal cliff”, economic growth declined in much of Europe, and economies in Asia struggled to cope with reduced exports.  This is...