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Worldwide Technology Trends 2024
This study is designed to give business leaders insight into the adoption, investment, and customer experience for 15 technologies in each category. It provides a glimpse into how quickly an emerging technology is being adopted, how deeply more established technologies penetrate the market, and how positive the customer experience is with each of them. The study also delves into the specific types of solutions under consideration. By understanding the adoption trends, investment activity, and customer experience, decision-makers are in a better position to assess the potential risks and rewards of investing in each of these technologies. They also can gain insight into just how aggressively competitors and peers are investing in them.
May, 2024
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IT Spending Trends in Transportation and Logistics 2024
This report analyzes the IT characteristics of the transportation and logistics sector, along with the competitive threats posed by digital disruption. Based on our latest benchmarking survey, it provides key metrics for the sector organizations. We conclude with the outlook for increased IT spending and staffing in the sector in the coming years.
August, 2024
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IT Spending and Staffing Benchmarks 2024/2025: Chapter 15: IT Services and Solutions
Chapter 15 provides IT spending and staffing statistics for the IT services and solutions sector. This category includes software companies, SaaS providers, systems integrators, IT solution providers, business process outsourcing firms, and other providers of IT services and solutions. There are 49 organizations in the sample, ranging in size from around $50 million to over $100 billion in annual revenue.
September, 2024
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IT Spending and Staffing Benchmarks 2024/2025: Chapter 43: Logistics
Chapter 43 provides benchmarks for logistics providers. The 21 respondents in this sample range in size from $52 million to about $100 billion. This subsector is comprised of logistics companies that transport goods, including refined petroleum distributors, national moving or courier companies, freight transportation companies, supply chain logistics providers, and other logistics companies.
September, 2024
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IT Spending and Staffing Benchmarks 2024/2025: Chapter 5: Discrete Manufacturing
Chapter 5 provides benchmarks for discrete manufacturing organizations. Discrete manufacturers are defined as those where the production process adds value by fabricating or assembling individual (discrete) unit production. This category includes manufacturers of consumer products, athletic equipment, industrial equipment, telecommunications equipment, aerospace products, furniture, auto parts, electrical parts, medical devices, and electronic devices, among other products. The 79 respondents in this sample range in size from a minimum of about $50 million to over $300 billion in annual revenue.
September, 2024
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Huge Lithium Mine in Nevada Sparks Economic Optimism and Environmental Debate
Thacker Pass in Nevada, home to the world's largest lithium deposit, promises economic growth with 2,000 jobs while raising environmental and social concerns. This project could reshape the global supply chain for renewable energy and tech industries.
December, 2024
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Web/E-Commerce Staffing Ratios 2023
Social media, mobile devices, multimedia, and even the prospects of the metaverse, are increasing the ways customers and suppliers interact. The omnichannel experience will pressure organizations to build larger web and e-commerce footprints. With that increasing pressure, we expect web/e-commerce staffing to also increase. The Research Byte summarizes the five-year trend in web/e-commerce staffing ratios.
February, 2023
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Acumatica Gains from Citizen Developers but Challenges Remain
ERP vendors are increasingly allowing their customers to create applications or make changes to a wide variety of applications and workflows with just a few steps. These low-code/no-code platforms allow regular ERP users to become power users. This citizen-development trend is a big factor in the growth of Acumatica, the Seattle-based cloud ERP vendor.
February, 2023
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Business Analyst Staffing Ratios 2023
The business analyst staffing ratio appears to be declining, but the role is not falling in importance. Therefore, as business users become more IT-savvy, it is only natural that business analysts would increasingly be rising up within the business rather than in the IT organization. The Research Byte summarizes our full report on business analyst staffing ratios.
February, 2023
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Formulating Your Strategy for Digital Real Estate
Digital real estate is the virtual space inside a virtual world that is sometimes available for purchase by consumers and enterprises. For enterprises, it is the space where your customers or partners interact with each other and your brand in the metaverse.
January, 2023
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China Diversification Strategies and Options for Relocation
China’s economic and geopolitical ambitions have created political and business instability with its global trading partners. As a result, many western companies with manufacturing operations in China or significant sourcing from China are pursuing a diversification strategy. This report summarizes the factors that are driving western nations to diversify their operations out of China as well as options for new locations.
January, 2023
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Database Administration Staffing Ratios 2022
Database administration (DBA) staffing remained steady in 2022, even though organizations are capturing and analyzing greater amounts of data. One reason DBA staffing levels are not rising is technology, specifically AI/ML, which is assisting DBAs in collecting, sorting, managing, and controlling ever-larger volumes of data. The Research Byte summarizes this full report on database administration staffing ratios.
January, 2023
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What’s Keeping Chief Procurement Officers Awake at Night?
The risk of supply chain disruptions is in addition to the objective of the chief procurement officer (CPO) to deliver value, improve cash flow, develop functional capabilities, manage the risk in an ever-evolving supply base, and reduce the carbon footprint of the supply chain.
January, 2023
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IT Salary Report 2023
This report provides total compensation for 80 IT job functions for more than 400 US metro areas and 20 industry sectors. The executive summary also provides our forecast for pay raises and hiring in 2023 and includes job descriptions for each job function. The salary tables are provided as a downloadable Microsoft Excel workbook, with total salaries reported at the 10th, 25th, 50th (median), 75th, and 90th percentiles.
December, 2022
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Hitachi Vantara Addresses the Data Elephant in the Room
Hitachi Vantara CEO Gajen Kandiah will be the first to admit it. Hitachi Vantara has struggled to get its identity across to the market. He compared the problem to the old proverb about blind men coming across an elephant. As one man grasps the trunk, he decides it is a snake. Another feels the elephant’s sides and decides he is touching a wall. Each of the men touch a different part of the elephant, and none see the big picture. If you want to know what the whole Hitachi Vantara elephant looks like, data is what holds together all of its parts.
December, 2022
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