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This report presents the findings from a survey of 48 South African enterprises regarding their Information & Communications Technology (ICT) investment trends. The survey investigates how South African enterprises currently allocate their ICT budgets across the core areas of enterprise ICT expenditure: hardware, software, IT services, communications, and consulting.

Key Findings:

- Kable's survey of 48 South African enterprises highlights that X% of respondents anticipate an increase in their ICT budgets in 2014, which is an increase of X% compared to 2013.

- According to Kable's survey, South African enterprises are planning to invest X% of their external ICT budgets in hardware, software, and IT services in 2014, which is more than the combined allocation in 2013 (X%).

- South African enterprises are allocating the highest proportion of their hardware budgets to clients (X%) followed by network and communications equipment (X%) and servers (X%) in 2013.

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This report presents the findings from a survey of 48 South African enterprises regarding their Information & Communications Technology (ICT) investment trends. The survey investigates how South African enterprises currently allocate their ICT budgets across the core areas of enterprise ICT expenditure: hardware, software, IT services, communications, and consulting..

The report illustrates the core technologies enterprises are investing in, including security, mobility, green IT & virtualization, and cloud computing. The survey also highlights the approach adopted by enterprises in South Africa 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 South Africa.

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

- Gain an understanding regarding which ICT functions South African enterprises are interested in outsourcing.

- Identify South African enterprises' investment priorities based on their budget allocations across core technology categories such as security, mobility, green IT & virtualization, and cloud computing.

- Learn about the drivers that are influencing South African enterprises' investments in each technology category.

- Establish how South African enterprises' IT budgets are currently allocated across various segments within a technology category.

- Gain insight into how South African 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 South African enterprises' preferred buying approaches.

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

- Understand the factors that are influencing South African enterprises' decision to select an ICT provider.

Reasons to Get This Report:

- This report will help readers to understand how South Africa enterprise ICT landscape is set to change in 2014.

- Gain a view as to how ICT Rand are 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 South African enterprises.

- The report will provide a detailed breakdown of the opportunities within selected technology categories (security, mobility, green IT & virtualization, and cloud computing).

- Understand the factors that are influencing South African enterprises' decision to select an ICT provider.

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

Companies Mentioned in this Report: Symantec, McAfee, RSA (EMC), Check Point Microsoft, IBM, Oracle, Google, Apple, HP, RIM, BT, Vodafone, Nokia, Verizon, Orange, ATandT, Dell, Cisco, VMware, Amazon web services, Rackspace, Salesforce.com, Deutsche Telekom/T-Systems

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