Boston, MA -- (SBWIRE) -- 07/11/2014 -- This report presents the findings from a survey of 50 Singaporean and Malaysian enterprises regarding their Information and Communications Technology (ICT) investment trends. The survey investigates how Singaporean and Malaysian enterprises currently allocate their ICT budgets across the core areas of enterprise ICT expenditure: hardware, software, IT services, communications, and consulting

Key Findings

- According to the survey, X% of Singaporean and Malaysian respondents are anticipating an increase in their ICT budgets slightly or significantly in 2014, which is an increase of X% compared to 2013.

- The survey further reveals that expenditure on hardware is set to witness an upward trend, attracting the highest share (X %) of total ICT budgets in 2014.

- Kable's survey shows that both Singaporean and Malaysian enterprises are planning to invest the highest proportion (X %) of their average hardware budget in clients.

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This report presents the findings from a survey of 50 Singaporean and Malaysian enterprises regarding their Information and Communications Technology (ICT) investment trends. The survey investigates how Singaporean and Malaysian enterprises currently allocate their ICT budgets across the core areas of ICT expenditure: hardware, software, IT services, communications, and consulting.

The report illustrates the core technologies enterprises are investing in, including enterprise applications, business intelligence, cloud computing, and communications and collaboration. The survey also highlights the approach adopted by enterprises in Singapore and Malaysia to purchase technology. Through Kable's survey, the report aims to provide better insight to ICT vendors and services providers when pitching their solutions to enterprises in Singapore and Malaysia.

In particular, it provides an in-depth analysis of the following:

- Understand how ICT budgets are set to change in 2014 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 money is being spent in areas such as the data centre, applications, IT management and the network.

- Gain an understanding regarding which ICT functions Singaporean and Malaysian enterprises are interested in outsourcing.

- Identify Singaporean and Malaysian enterprises' investment priorities based on their budget allocations across core technology categories such as enterprise applications, business intelligence, cloud computing, and communications and collaboration.

- Learn about the drivers that are influencing Singaporean and Malaysian enterprises' investments in each technology category.

- Establish how Singaporean and Malaysian enterprises' IT budgets are currently allocated across various segments within a technology category.

- Gain insight into how Singaporean and Malaysian enterprises plan to change their ICT budget allocations across various segments within a technology category.

- Understand the vendor mindshare for various core and advanced technology categories.

- Provides insight into Singaporean and Malaysian enterprises' preferred buying approaches.

- Comprehend the business and IT objectives that Singaporean and Malaysian enterprises are looking to achieve through their IT investment strategies.

- Understand the factors that are influencing Singaporean and Malaysian enterprises' decision to select an ICT provider.

Reasons to Get This Report

- This report will help readers to understand how Singaporean and Malaysian enterprise ICT landscape is set to change in 2014.

- Gain a view as to how ICT money is being allocated in your target audience.

- The report covers a detailed breakdown of the opportunities within each of the core areas of ICT spend (hardware, software, IT services, telecommunications and consulting.)

- The report will help users to gain a view of the current strategic objectives of Singaporean and Malaysian enterprises.

- The report will provide a detailed breakdown of the opportunities within selected technology categories (enterprise applications, business intelligence, cloud computing, and communications and collaboration).

- Understand the factors that are influencing Singaporean and Malaysian enterprises' decision to select an ICT provider.

- Gain a view as to the business and IT objectives Singaporean and Malaysian enterprises are looking to achieve through their ICT investment strategies.

Companies Mentioned in this Report: Alcatel-Lucent, Amazon web services, ATandT, Avaya, BT, Cisco, Deutsche Telekom/T-Systems, Google, IBM, Microsoft, Microstrategy, Open source, Oracle, Orange, Rackspace, Salesforce.com, SAP, SAS, Siemens, SingTel, Telefonica, Telstra, Tibco, Verizon, Vodafone

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