Newsletters Welcome, Guest Log In | Register

Enterprise Software

Insights on enterprise software markets to help define smart strategy

About this Blogger RSS

Subscribe

Sign up now and get the best business technology insights direct to your inbox.

  • Daily Edge
  • CTO Edge Update
  • Business Tools & Templates
  • Aligning IT & Business Goals
  • Maximizing IT Investments

0

In Enterprise Software, How Do You Stack up Against the Guy Down the Street?

Posted by Dennis Byron Apr 30, 2008 1:42:07 PM

McKinsey is out this week with a periodic survey of its McKinsey Quarterly readers called the Enterprise Software Customer Survey 2008.

Surveys are always interesting to users as a way to see how you stack up against your peers. They are always interesting to your IT suppliers because it helps determine what they concentrate on. So always be careful how you answer surveys; you might not get what you really need.

In 2008, you or your peers said the most important enterprise-software technology trends "impacting your business" were

  1. software as a service (SaaS)
  2. Web services/service oriented architecture (SOA)
  3. offshoring/globalization
  4. open source
  5. software industry consolidation
  6. "other"

(ranked in that order)

 

The changes from the last time that question was asked in 2006 were at the bottom of that list. Significantly fewer (assuming a normal +/-5 percent significance factor) of you are concerned about consolidation and significantly more are concerned about "other" issues. The rankings and percentages of the top four trends were unchanged in two years.

 

Two-thirds of all enterprise software budget dollars are still spent via traditional license/support contracts but SaaS is nearing 20 percent of the total. That total varies from 11 percent to 26 percent by size of company, as you would expect.

 

Give the report a quick read. It's always fun to see how you stack up. And if these trends aren't important to you, make sure your enterprise software suppliers know it.

Add a comment Leave a comment on this blog post.

There are no comments on this post

The IT Service Catalog Management Toolkit

Bridge the it-business gap once and for all! A well documented IT services catalog is the conduit for IT services to the rest of the company.

Learn more >

Social Media Policies Toolkit

Define the rules at your company for the proper use of social media platforms such as Blogs, Twitter, Facebook and Youtube. Ensure your users are spending their time productively and company resources are being used for the business.

Learn more >