Tag: IT spending
Report surfaces major gains for MSPs serving enterprise customers
A report published this week by Information Services Group (ISG) shows the annual contract value (ACV) of managed services contracts valued at more than $5 million hit a record $8.4 billion for the third quarter, representing a 22 percent increase...
IT spending outlook for 2022 looks better than 2021
The outlook for IT spending for cloud and managed services for 2022 looks promising, assuming organizations can acquire the hardware needed to drive application deployments. A Spiceworks Ziff Davis (SWZD) survey of more than 1000 IT buyers in North America...
MSPs celebrate growth as IT spending questions remain
Questions on the levels of IT spending from SMBs and other organizations will exercise in the future continue, even amongst recent significant MSP growth. Managed services generated nearly $8 billion in annual contract value in the second quarter of 2021,...
Organizations expect return to robust IT spending with caveats
IT leaders have a natural bias toward optimism when it comes to spending on IT initiatives that isn’t as often equally shared by finance executives. Nevertheless, a survey of 340 finance executives in North America conducted by Hanover research on...
IT spending shows signs of recovery going into 2021
CompTIA has published its annual report for the IT industry, which suggests that spending on IT is starting to return to historic levels. The CompTIA report, in fact, cites data from International Data Corp (IDC) projecting that global IT revenue...
MSPs need to get closer to customers in 2020
This time of year, most managed service providers (MSPs) are trying to discern what issues are top of mind for their customers as they gear up to head into the New Year. A recent survey of 500 IT professionals conducted...
Percentage of revenue organizations are investing in IT increases sharply
A global survey of more than 2,500 business and technology leaders conducted by the research firm ESI ThoughtLab, on behalf of Cognizant, a provider of IT services, suggests that the amount of money organizations are willing to invest in IT...
Survey suggests large portions of IT budgets are being wasted
A new report on IT spending trends for the coming year suggests there is a significant opportunity for managed service providers (MSPs) to help organizations get a better handle on where and how IT budgets are being allocated.
Spending survey indicates MSPs are holding, but not gaining, ground
One of the first IT spending forecasts for 2020 contains both good and somewhat disappointing news for managed service providers (MSPs). Based on a Spiceworks survey of 1,105 IT leaders in the U.S. and Europe, spending driven by the need...
Gartner analyst lifts veil on IT solution purchasing processes
At the 2019 UK London Managed Services & Hosting Summit this week, a Gartner analyst delivered some “good news.” Gartner research director Mark Paine told conference attendees it’s now only taking customers 50 percent longer to buy an IT solution,...
