IT operational budgets will rise 2.5 percent at the median in North America in 2013, according to Computer Economics, Irvine, Calif., but worries that the fragile U.S. recovery could be derailed has caused many organizations…
The average U.S. IT organization plans to increase the salaries of existing employees this year by three percent, a slight increase over the 2.8 percent increase in 2012, according to Computer Economics IT Salary Report…
The number of application programmers employed as a percentage of the typical IT organization is slowly on the rise again with the renewed capital spending and investment in enterprise and mobile applications, according to a…
The percentage of companies that outsource at least some of their disaster recovery function has risen from 34 percent in 2009 to 44 percent in 2012, according to a new study from Computer Economics. The majority…
The German enterprise software services company, SAP, recently announced that it would be increasing prices on standard support for new maintenance contracts signed after July 14, 2013 from 18 percent to 19 percent, according to…
Network support personnel now comprise a larger share of the total IT staff, according to a new report by Computer Economics. The percentage of network support staff out of the total IT staff rose to…
Most customers rely on their original vendors for implementation and ongoing support of major enterprise applications such as ERP, CRM, and supply chain management (SCM), according to a new report from Computer Economics. However, not…
The 14 major IT initiatives that business leaders must understand in order to separate the return on investment (ROI) and total cost of ownership (TCO) from the hype are identified and analyzed in a new study…
