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Internet of Things Adoption Trends and Customer Experience 2024
The Internet of Things (IoT) is still a maturing technology that promises benefits such as lower labor costs, better tracking of assets, improved business processes, and efficient energy management. Indeed, IoT seems like a no-brainer technology for most companies to invest in, and from a consumer point of view, it seems they have. By now, just about every product in the home is “smart” and enabled with some remote access and app connection. IoT is beginning to see significant growth compared to its previous benchmarks. However, when it comes to enterprise usage, IoT lags behind most of the other technologies in our Technology Trends study in terms of new investment.
January, 2025
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Supply Chain Management Adoption Trends and Customer Experience 2025
Supply chain management (SCM) has become a hot topic in recent years. From grocery shelves running out of toilet paper and cleaning supplies during the pandemic, to shortages of semiconductors leading to auto dealers running out of cars to sell, to cargo ships lined up at the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach, the term “supply chain” was on everyone’s lips. But given the resolution of global supply chain issues over the past year, what does this mean for future adoption and investments of SCM systems?
April, 2025
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IT Spending and Staffing Benchmarks 2025/2026: Chapter 3A: Benchmarks by Organization Size: Small
In these chapters, we provide a complete set of benchmarks for organizations within the specified size classification. Small organizations benchmarks are in Chapter 3A, midsize organizations in Chapter 3B, large organizations in Chapter 3C, and very large organizations in Chapter 3D. There are 66 respondents in the small organization sample, 73 in the midsize sample, 86 in the large sample, and 84 in the very large sample.
August, 2025
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IT Spending and Staffing Benchmarks 2025/2026: Chapter 16: IT Services and Solutions
Chapter 16 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 43 organizations in the sample, ranging in size from around $50 million to over $60 billion in annual revenue.
August, 2025
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Server Support Staffing Ratios 2023
The demand for server support administrators has been on a downward trend for a decade. Virtualization, automation, DevOps, and the cloud have made IT infrastructure easier to administer. As a result, the IT infrastructure support burden is lessening, although there are factors also working in the other direction. We examine those factors in this new report, part of our IT staffing series.
April, 2023
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European IT Spending and Staffing Benchmarks 2023/2024: Chapter 1: Executive Summary
This chapter provides an overview of the key findings from the European study and describes the contents of the subsequent chapters. It also includes information on the study participants and the survey methodology.
September, 2023
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Best Practices for Benchmarking Your IT Budget Ratios
Benchmarking is a popular way for IT executives to justify their IT budgets and better focus their efforts to achieve a state of continuous improvement. Whether it is to compare their IT spending levels with industry peers, defend current spending levels, justify new spending requests, or identify opportunities for cost improvement, benchmarking is the best way to objectively measure an organization’s IT budget against industry standards.
December, 2023
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IT Quality Assurance and Testing Staffing Ratios 2024
IT quality assurance and testing has always been a vital role in IT organizations. However, the role of quality assurance as a discrete job position has changed significantly. In 2023, the percentage of quality assurance and testing staff as a percentage of the total IT staff dropped to 3.6% from 4.2% in 2022.
February, 2024
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IT Spending Trends in the Education Sector 2024
The education sector faces many complex and interrelated socio-economic, political, and technological challenges. But the sector is crucial in shaping the future of society, requiring creative solutions to address these multifaceted problems. This report analyzes the unique IT characteristics of the education sector with its various subsectors. We conclude with the outlook for increased IT spending and staffing in the education sector in the coming years.
May, 2024
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IT Security, Cybersecurity, and Compliance Spending Benchmarks 2024
We live in an era where we are surrounded by devices that connect us to enterprise data and allow us to do our jobs from anywhere. However, connected devices are vulnerable, so it is not surprising that cybersecurity attacks are increasing as the number and type of such devices increase. Daily, organizations are subjected to phishing emails, social engineering, malware, ransomware, trojans, viruses, and worms. And new attack vectors are constantly emerging. This creates an expensive and constantly shifting security landscape.
June, 2024
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IT Spending and Staffing Benchmarks 2024/2025: Chapter 6: Banking and Finance
Chapter 6 provides benchmarks for banking and financial services companies. The firms in this sector include commercial banks, investment banks, credit unions, mortgage lenders, consumer finance lenders, and other types of lenders and financial services providers. The 48 respondents in this sector range in size from a minimum of about $50 million to over $75 billion in annual sales.
September, 2024
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IT Spending and Staffing Benchmarks 2024/2025: Chapter 18: Education
Chapter 18 provides benchmarks for the education sector. This sector includes public and private colleges and universities, business and medical schools, for-profit educational institutions, school districts, and foundations. The 19 respondents in the sample have annual revenues ranging in size from a minimum of about $50 million to around $8 billion.
September, 2024
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IT Spending and Staffing Benchmarks 2024/2025: Chapter 28: Brick-and-Mortar Retail
Chapter 28 provides benchmarks for brick-and-mortar retailers. This subsector includes department stores, clothing stores, convenience stores, pet stores, pharmacies, hardware stores, nonprofit retailers, furniture retailers, agricultural retailers, and other retailers. The 39 respondents in this sample have annual revenues ranging from about $95 million to over $200 billion.
September, 2024
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European CIOs Making Investments with Strong Budget Increases
Despite some economic turbulence, persistent nearby conflicts, and tech layoffs, end-user companies are showing relatively strong IT spending increases. CIOs are investing in a series of new technologies designed to transform the enterprise including AI, data analytics, and even the metaverse. Hiring is also keeping pace, and, for the most part, CIOs have the budget they need to make meet their mission of continued strategic transformation. This Research Byte is a brief description of some of the findings in our European IT Spending and Staffing Benchmarks 2024/2025 study.
October, 2024
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Great ROI for IoT, but Implementation Difficulties Limit Adoption
The Internet of Things (IoT) continues to promise benefits such as lower labor costs, better tracking of assets, improved business processes, and efficient energy management. Companies that have adopted this technology are realizing high ROI and satisfaction. However, IoT is still a maturing technology. This Research Byte examines the potential causes.
January, 2025
