ICT budget and staffing trends in India - Enterprise ICT investment plans to 2013

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ICT budget and staffing trends in India - Enterprise ICT investment plans to 2013

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Product Synopsis

This report presents the findings from a survey of 165 Indian enterprises regarding their Information and Communication Technology (ICT) budgets and staff allocation. The survey investigates how Indian enterprises currently allocate their ICT budgets across the core areas of enterprise ICT spend, namely hardware, software, IT services, communications and consulting.

Introduction and LandscapeWhy was the report written?

In order to provide a depth of insight into ICT vendors' and service providers' potential customers

What is the current market landscape and what is changing?

Enterprises are increasingly looking to IT to support different challenges in their business operations. Demand for emerging technologies such as cloud computing, virtualization, and mobility for enhanced operational efficiency are on the rise.

What are the key drivers behind recent market changes?

Growing mobile subscriber base, as well as high smartphone penetration and usage of the mobile internet is driving the demand for enterprise mobility, whereas demand for cloud computing is fuelled by factors like cost reduction and ease of maintenance .

What makes this report unique and essential to read?

Kable Global ICT Intelligence has invested significant resources in order to interview CIOs and IT managers about their IT Budgets. Very few IT analyst houses will have interviewed 160+ ICT decision makers in India market in H2 2012.

Key Features and Benefits

Understand how ICT budgets are set to change in 2013 in terms of their overall size.

Appreciate how IT budgets are allocated across the core elements of IT spend, including hardware, software, services, communications and consulting.

Learn how IT Rupees are being spent in areas such as the data centre, applications, IT management and the network.

Establish how IT staff are typically allocated within Indian organizations.

Gain insight into with whom Indian enterprises plan to spend their ICT Rupees.

Key Market Issues

An overall moderate growth in IT budgets is expected in 2012-13. Businesses are likely to remain cautious, but this is hardly going to have any negative impact on IT investments.

Investment in data centres and network integration and management remained the primary area of focus for IT spending among Indian enterprises, which reveals the importance that enterprises place on supporting their core IT systems.

Kable expects the percentage of the telecommunications budget spent on converged voice and data networks to continue to remain low due to the unavailability of advanced network infrastructure to support the services.

The most interesting change in IT deployment trends in Indian enterprises is the planned increase in spending on IT security, which clearly provides a lot of encouragement for the providers of security services in India.

Indian enterprises reveal that IT consulting is an area of relatively low importance as it constitutes the smallest proportion of the total IT budget

Key Highlights

Indian enterprises have continued to focus exclusively on their core ICT systems where, on average, respondents invested X% of their external IT budget on hardware, software and services combined.

Kable's recent survey reveals that Indian enterprises are mostly willing to spend with third parties, which amounts to almost X% of the total IT budget, thereby creating huge scope for those vendors who impress with their technology.

According to the survey, the bulk of the software budget (X%) is being spent on software licenses driven by investments in core enterprise applications such as financial management, human resources management, ePurchasing, security, CRM and business intelligence.

The survey indicates that the largest proportion (X%) of IT staff members has been resourced on IT infrastructure followed by applications (X%).

Indian enterprises place high emphasis on client computing equipment with an average budget allocation of X%, as enterprises are trying to adopt media tablets and smartphones in their businesses to create more value and business agility.

Table of Contents

1.1 Introduction

1.2 Survey demographics

1.3 IT budget changes

1.4 IT budget allocation by core technology area

1.5 IT budget allocation by function

1.6 IT spending by entity

1.7 IT staff distribution

2 Detailed IT budget allocations

2.1 Introduction

2.2 Hardware budget breakdown

2.3 Software budget breakdowns

2.4 Third party IT Services expenditure

2.5 Telecommunications budget

3 Summary

3.1 Indian enterprises are positive yet cautious in raising their IT spend

4 Appendix

4.1 Definitions

4.2 Further reading

4.3 Contact the authors

List of Tables

Table 2: Indian enterprise ICT survey breakdown by size band (number of employees)

Table 3: Recent and expected ICT budget changes among Indian enterprises

Table 4: Indian enterprises' (external) ICT budget allocation in 2012

Table 5: Indian enterprises' (external) ICT budget allocation in 2013

Table 6: Indian enterprises' ICT budget allocation by function, 2012 and 2013

Table 7: Indian enterprises' IT budget allocation by entity in 2012

Table 8: Indian enterprises' IT budget allocation by entity in 2013

Table 9: Average allocation of full-time IT staff members in Indian enterprises

Table 10: Indian enterprises' average hardware budget allocation

Table 11: Average allocation of software budgets in the Indian enterprise market

Table 12: Indian enterprises' average software budget allocation by technology

Table 13: Indian enterprises' average IT services budget allocation

Table 14: Indian enterprises' average IT consulting services budget allocation

Table 15: Indian enterprises' average telecommunications budget allocation

List of Figures

Figure 2: Indian enterprise ICT survey breakdown by size band (number of employees)

Figure 3: Recent and expected ICT budget changes among Indian enterprises

Figure 4: Indian enterprises' (external) ICT budget allocation in 2012

Figure 5: Indian enterprises' (external) ICT budget allocation in 2013

Figure 6: Indian enterprises' ICT budget allocation by function, 2012 and 2013

Figure 7: Indian enterprises' IT budget allocation by entity in 2012

Figure 8: Indian enterprises' IT budget allocation by entity in 2013

Figure 9: Average allocation of full-time IT staff members in Indian enterprises

Figure 10: Indian enterprises' average hardware budget allocation

Figure 11: Average allocation of software budgets in the Indian enterprise market

Figure 12: Indian enterprises' average software budget allocation by technology

Figure 13: Indian enterprises' average IT services budget allocation

Figure 14: Indian enterprises' average IT consulting services budget allocation

Figure 15: Indian enterprises' average telecommunications budget allocation

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