Boston, MA -- (SBWIRE) -- 12/24/2013 -- Product Synopsis
This report presents the findings from a survey of 164 educational institutions regarding their approach to Information and Communications Technology (ICT) procurement. The survey investigates the way that educational institutions like to purchase technology, as well as the major IT and business objectives influencing their IT investment strategies.

Introduction and Landscape
Why was the report written?
To highlight the criteria on which educational institutions select their ICT providers as well as the roles which have influence while making ICT purchasing decisions.

What is the current market landscape and what is changing?
Educational institutions are planning to increase their ICT spending in 2013 to improve their operational efficiency and increase student/staff satisfaction by offering a flexible education environment.

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What are the key drivers behind recent market changes?
Educational institutions are gradually shifting some of their processes to hosted deployments, in order to achieve cost savings and reduce their ICT infrastructure complexity.

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 Procurement. Very few IT analyst houses will have interviewed 160+ ICT decision makers in the education sector in H2 2012.

Key Features and Benefits
Provides insights into educational institutions' preferred buying approaches.

Comprehend the business objectives that educational institutions are looking to achieve through their IT investment strategy.

Appreciate the IT objectives that educational institutions are looking to achieve through their IT investment strategy.

Understand the factors that are influencing educational institutions' decision to select an ICT provider.

Understand which organisational roles influence ICT purchasing decisions and signing off budgets.

Key Market Issues
In order to curb costs, educational institutions' spend is typically channelled through framework agreements issued by central ICT teams. Occasionally departments are also given a certain degree of freedom to procure products from their departmental budgets.

Many educational institutions are apprehensive of entrusting their intellectual property including educational and research content, to cloud service providers (public or private).

Educational institutions are looking to explore all available options for streamlining their operations in order to deliver more for less. This is evident from the survey, as institutions give the objective of raising efficiency the highest average rating of X on a scale of 1 to 4.

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