Not all CIO are ready to reduce IT budgets

Based on a recent research of the international investment and finance company UBS, despite severe economic conditions in which software developers were delivered information systems for management of different aspects of business will be rather demanded in 2009.

According to survey conducted among 100 Chief information officers of the USA and Europe in 2009 expense reduction on information technologies for 2% is predicted that there are less similar estimates given by Forrester and Gartner companies [1] (file).

Based on a research, from four leaders in the development area of business applications and solutions for management of IT infrastructure - SAP companies [2] (file), Microsoft [3] (file), Oracle [4] (file) and IBM [5] (file) - the downward tendency of expenses on IT least of all will affect SAP which collected the most positive reviews among CIO. So, according to forecasts of the leading Chief information officers, next year expenses on software from SAP will even be a little increased whereas on costs for Microsoft, Oracle and IBM should decrease.

The greatest commitment to ERP systems will be shown, as expected, by the companies of a manufacturing sector.

Expenses on management systems for IT infrastructure, according to forecasts, will increase by 1%. In particular, software costs for data processing centers will grow by 2% that is explained by the aspiration of the companies to reduce the staff expenses. At the same time costs growth rates on virtualization which is considered one of the technologies which are most actively gaining popularity will go down from 10% in 2008 to 6% in 2009.

In general, according to the summed-up results of a research, about 60% of respondents assume reduction of IT expenses. Nevertheless, about a third of respondents expect increase in budgets at information technologies.