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Assertion 178:With more and more companies unwilling or unable to invest in up-front capital costs for projects, lots of noise is being made about cloud computing as a fast and efficient deployment environment. Most companies will be wary but willing. Can you afford not to get involved?
This month's installment of Cutter Benchmark Review is the fourth in our yearly series on IT trends and technologies for the coming year. As you know if you have been following CBR, at the beginning of every year we ask our practicing and academic contributors to take stock of current trends. Based on our benchmarking survey of investment priorities, we ask our contributors to explain the results and look ahead to extrapolate these to create some guidelines for our readers on how to tackle the new year in the IT shop.
The year 2009 is set to become one of the most turbulent years ever seen in the IT industry worldwide. We anticipate many changes and a substantial amount of restructuring both in the industry and in companies that make use of IT.
Given the stunning economic events of the past few months, it comes as no surprise that the data for this year's CBR survey on IT trends reveals some significant activity across industries to cut costs and spend money wisely. Respondents across the board report taking such obvious measures as sharply cutting back hiring, reducing headcount, and taking on fewer projects.
This issue of the Cutter Benchmark Review is the fourth in our yearly series on technology and IT trends for the incoming year. Our focus here is to evaluate new technologies and IT trends you should be watching in 2009 and to draw some trending based on the survey results over the last four years. The latter part of 2008 was an extraordinary time for the global economy, and the results of our survey reflect the uncertainty that permeates the organizations for which our respondents work.
SURVEY DEMOGRAPHICS
This survey explored interest in and adoption of various relatively new IT technologies in 80 organizations worldwide. Forty-one percent of respondents hold senior management/policy making or IS/IT management titles, with consulting, project management, and software engineering/programming being among the other job titles reported. Fifty-three percent of responding organizations are headquartered in North America, 18% in Europe, and 20% in Asia/Pacific, with the remainder in South America, Africa, and the Middle East.
