Dell EMC and TAdviser was defined by the main IT priorities of the Russian business

Dell EMS and TAdviser was published by results of the research "The Main IT Priorities of Business in Russia 2016". Representatives of large business participated in a research: Chief information officers, CIO, service station, heads who are responsible for development of the business directions in the companies from different branches of the economy: finance, telecom, retail, industry, energy industry, public sector, ICT, consulting, etc.

Having conducted this research, it was succeeded to draw the following conclusions. The main priority of business of the polled companies is profit maximization – including due to search of new formats of customer interaction (46%), expansion of geography of presence (32%) and removal on the market of new products (30%).

The majority notes that key priorities of their business are expense optimization of 67% and increase in profitability of 65%. The possibility of cost reduction for maintenance of growth of business is provided due to optimization approaches to IT infrastructure – projects of virtualization and the subsequent migration in a cloud, at failure from construction of own data centers. More than 80% of respondents do not plan construction own (including reserve) platforms in the next year.

Contrary to expectations of 60% of respondents said that use public clouds, 33% are hybrid clouds, thereby confirming growth of need for similar services. The private cloud is used by 43% of the companies. Implementation of similar technologies involves considerable transformation business of processes. 82% of the polled companies put in the IT budgets of investment on development.

The global trend of digitalization defines the IT strategy of most the polled companies, stimulating to use of mobile technologies (55%) and development of remote formats of customer interaction (60%).

The research shows how the companies are selected by IT

The main factors which I define the choice of IT solutions it is functionality (70%), total cost of ownership (68%), the price (65%) and quality of service support (61%). Nearly a half (46%) of respondents noted that previous positive experience of interaction with the IT supplier influences their choice of IT solution. And also payback.

Contrary to expectations survey results show that the level of informatization of the companies is very high: 91% use solutions in data storage area, 88% are virtualizations. To data protection of 57%. Less than a half of respondents are used by business analysis tools (43%) and management systems for service maintenance (41%).

Opinion of heads

Results of a research testify to two important trends. First, more and more companies estimate IT infrastructure as investments into optimization and business development, creation of new products, - Sergey Karpov, the vice president, the director of Dell EMC in Russia and the CIS says. – Secondly, the level of use of cloud services including a hybrid cloud that speaks about bigger flexibility in planning of IT resources, so and flexibility of business processes grows.

We see important trends in business IT transformation, development of remote formats of customer interaction and mobility, cloud computing allows to construct service for any platform, a telecom, retail and the financial sector, is most focused on transition to the third platform, - Igor Kornetov the technical director of Dell EMC of Russia and CIS.

Most of respondents represent rather mature, in terms of informatization, the companies which are focused on a didzhitalization of business and formats of customer interaction today. This trend defines the nature of their investments into development of IT infrastructure, with focus on migration in clouds. It is characteristic that more than a half of the respondents representing a corporate segment did not change the priorities in the choice of technologies under the influence of an import substitution factor yet. Interest present solutions which confirm the efficiency and fast return in the remaining situation of minimization of costs, - Alexander Levashov, the Chief Editor of TAdviser says.

The research was conducted from July 16 to August 18, 2016.

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