IT Priorities 2019: What projects are IT professionals spending their budgets on?
Summary
The Computer Weekly/TechTarget IT Priorities research for 2019 has reported maturity in software as a service ( SaaS ) among IT decision-makers and continued emphasis on prioritising security expenditure. As expected, security concerns still loomed large among IT buyers, with monitoring and management tools high on the agenda in both the UK and EMEA. The study found that 35% of respondents named migrating to the cloud as their top IT spending priority for the year ahead, when asked which “broad IT initiative” their company plans to implement in 2019. The research found strong growth in Saas, particularly in the area of cloud deployments of business intelligence ( BI ) and analytics (30%) and database software (27%). However, business intelligence and analytics took the top spot for SaaS delivery (33%) in EMEA, edging out customer relationship management ( CRM ).