Spending and budgets

• Worldwide enterprise IT spending will total $2.7 trillion, a 3.9% increase from 2011. (Gartner)

• 85% of global IT execs predict their 2012 IT budgets will be greater than or equal to 2011’s. (Society of Information Management)

• Up to 20% of total IT spending will be driven by smartphones, tablets, mobile networks, social networking and big data analytics. (IDC)

• The financial impact of cyber crime will increase by 10%. (Gartner)

• 95% of European CIOs will increase their use of commercial off-the-shelf applications in 2012. (PwC/Oracle)

Cloud

• Public cloud services will grow five times faster in 2012 than overall IT enterprise spending. (Gartner)

• 80% of new commercial enterprise applications will be deployed on cloud platforms. (IDC)

• Due to increased adoption of cloud, CIOs will spend up to a fifth of their time reviewing the terms and conditions of service-level agreements and moving toward standardization. (IDC)

Major trends

• 60% of European CIOs currently spend more than half of their opex budget on maintenance. Addressing this, through more strategic use of outsourcing and standardization, will be a major priority. (PwC/Oracle)

• More than 85% of Fortune 500 organizations will fail to exploit big data effectively for competitive advantage. (Gartner)

• Serious gaming simulations and game mechanics, such as leaderboards, achievements and skills-based learning, will be embedded in day-to-day business processes, driving adoption, performance and engagement. (Deloitte)

Salaries

• US IT salaries will increase by 3%. (Robert Half International)

• Salaries for US IT security professionals will increase by 4.5%. (Robert Half International)

• US mobile app developers’ salaries will increase by 9.1%. (Robert Half International)

• 94% of global CIOs predict their staff salaries will be greater than or equal to this year’s levels. (Society of Information Management)

• 65% of US hiring managers say their organizations plan to increase technology staff 
in the first half of 2012. (Dice)

• 25% of those hiring expect to expand their IT staff by more than 20% over the first six months. (Dice)

The next five years

According to Gartner, the top 10 strategic technologies that should be on CIOs’ agendas for the next five years are:

• Media tablets
• Mobile-centric apps and interfaces
• Contextual and social user experience
• The Internet of Things
• Apps stores and marketplaces
• Next-generation analytics
• Big data
• In-memory computing
• Extremely low-energy servers
• Cloud