IT Trends in 2006 Survey Data

by Cutter Consortium

This survey explored interest in and adoption of various relatively new IT technologies in 132 organizations worldwide. Almost half of the respondents (47%) hold senior management/ policy making or IS/IT management titles, with project management, operations, engineering/R&D, and software engineering/programming being among the other job titles reported. Of responding organizations, 46% are headquartered in North America, 27% in Europe, 19% in Asia/Pacific, with the remainder in the Middle East and South America. The number of IT professionals working in respondents' organizations varies greatly, with 17% reporting more than 1,000 IT professionals, 29% reporting 100 to 1,000, and 54% reporting fewer than 100 (including 30% with fewer than 20). Responding organizations' annual IT budgets varied accordingly, with 12% having IT budgets over US $100 million, 16% with $10 million-$100 million, 25% with $500,000-$10 million, and the remaining 33% having IT budgets below $500,000 (14% of respondents do not know their annual IT budget figure).