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IaaS Tech Trends and Customer Experience 2024
Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) continues to be a cornerstone of efficient operations. Our latest research reveals an uptick in IaaS adoption, with 72% of organizations now leveraging this technology. This surge is driven by the increasing demand for scalable, flexible, and cost-effective IT solutions.
January, 2025
Business and Data Analytics Continues Its Upward Trajectory
Business and data analytics cemented its position as a top priority for organizations, with adoption rates and investment levels reaching an all-time high. This appetite for data-driven decision-making signifies a fundamental shift in how businesses operate, recognizing data as a strategic asset paramount to success in today's competitive landscape. This Research Byte discusses these challenges and summarizes our full report on business and data analytics technologies.
February, 2025
Fair Market Value June 2025
The Computer Economics Market Value Reports provide information on the most commonly traded machines and systems at the time the report is published. The values shown are the composites of a range of quotes acquired from sources within the industry deemed reliable, accuracy of the information presented is not guaranteed. Resources are eBay, Insight, NewEgg, CDW, ETB-Tech, Amazon, Savemyserver, TheServerStore, LoadBalancer, NetworkOutlet, Netsyst-Direct, TigerDirect, and others as well as online sales companies and appraisals.
June, 2025
IT Spending and Staffing Benchmarks 2025/2026: Chapter 18: Nonprofits and Charitable Organizations Sector Benchmarks
Chapter 18 provides benchmarks for nonprofits and charitable organizations. This sector includes local and national charity organizations, conservation groups, youth development organizations, organizing bodies, and other nonprofit organizations. We do not include organizations where the nonprofit status only reflects the entity type. Nonprofit hospitals are an example. They operate from an IT perspective in a way that is not significantly different from for-profit hospitals. The 14 respondents in the sample range in size from a minimum of about $50 million to over $300 million in annual revenue.
August, 2025
IT Spending and Staffing Benchmarks 2025/2026: Chapter 10: Energy and Utilities
Chapter 10 provides benchmarks for public utilities, oil and gas producers, service companies, and midstream distributors across all organization sizes. The 39 respondents in this sector include public utilities (water, gas, and electric), integrated energy companies, upstream exploration and production companies, natural gas companies, pipeline operators, and other energy and utility companies. The companies in our sample range in size from a minimum of about $50 million to more than $300 billion in annual revenue. 
August, 2025
IT Spending and Staffing Benchmarks 2025/2026: Chapter 31: Investment Banking and Wealth Management Subsector Benchmarks
Chapter 31 provides benchmarks for investment banking and wealth management firms. This subsector includes companies offering services such as portfolio management, financial advisory, private banking, asset management, and retirement planning. The 24 respondents in this sample have annual revenues ranging from about $50 million to about $200 billion.
August, 2025
IT Spending and Staffing Benchmarks 2025/2026: Chapter 47: City and County Government Subsector Benchmarks
Chapter 47 provides benchmarks for city and county governments. This chapter concerns the IT workings of city or county governments and not individual agencies within larger governments (which can be found in Chapter 48). The 15 respondents in this subsector have annual operating budgets ranging from $50 million to around $5 billion. 
August, 2025
IT Spending and Staffing Benchmarks 2023/2024: Chapter 11: Healthcare Services Sector Benchmarks
Chapter 11 provides benchmarks for healthcare services companies. The 48 respondents in this sector include community hospital groups, multiregional hospital systems, healthcare systems, dental service organizations, university hospitals, long-term care facilities, and other healthcare organizations. These organizations range in size from a minimum of about $50 million to $10 billion in annual revenue.
July, 2023
IT Spending and Staffing Benchmarks 2023/2024: Chapter 37: Logistics Subsector Benchmarks
Chapter 37 provides benchmarks for logistics providers. The 19 respondents in this sample range in size from $52 million to about $50 billion. The sector 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.
July, 2023
IT Spending and Staffing Benchmarks 2023/2024: Chapter 1: Executive Summary
The Computer Economics IT Spending and Staffing Benchmarks study (the "ISS"), published annually since 1990, is the definitive source for IT spending and staffing benchmarks and IT performance statistics across multiple industries and government sectors. Download a free copy of the 60+ pages Executive Summary (Chapter 1), which includes a detailed analysis of our major findings of this year's report. It also includes important, high-level IT spending and staffing ratios and trends, including metrics on IT spending as a percentage of revenue, IT spending per user, IT spending growth, IT capital budgets, IT spending priorities, and IT staff count changes.
July, 2023
Enterprise Architecture Adoption and Best Practices 2023
While large IT project failures generate headlines, an even larger risk may be the incoherence that comes from developing new systems and capabilities without an overall plan. Enterprise architecture is an IT best practice that provides a description of the organization in its desired state. This allows developers to build an infrastructure, data model, systems, and process that are aligned with that organizational architecture.
October, 2023
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
IT Security Staffing Ratios 2024
The constant beating drum of new security vectors and the recent impact of remote and hybrid work have placed pressure on IT security staffing levels. Enterprises have been steadily increasing IT security budgets and personnel for years. However, IT security personnel as a percentage of the total IT staff has decreased slightly from 4.3% in 2022 to 4.2% in 2023. For three years, security personnel as a percentage has been flat, ranging between 4.2% and 4.3%. Has the supply of IT security personnel finally reached its cap?
February, 2024
IT Staffing Ratios: Benchmarking Metrics and Analysis for 17 Key IT Job Functions
The analysis of IT staffing data has been a core competency of Computer Economics since we began publishing our annual IT Spending and Staffing Benchmarks study in 1990. Each year, we survey more than 200 IT organizations across 10 major industry sectors, based on our sampling model, to obtain data on IT staffing levels, server counts, network infrastructure, outsourcing, and spending, among other information pertinent to the assessment of IT staffing.
September, 2024
IT Spending Trends in Technical Services 2024
This report analyzes the IT characteristics of this sector. Based on our latest benchmarking survey, it provides key metrics for technical services organizations. We conclude with the outlook for increased IT spending and staffing in this sector in the coming years.
May, 2024