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Coronavirus Impact on IT Budgets Still Coming
Benchmarking IT spending and staffing is a complicated task in the best of economic conditions. Benchmarking in the middle of a global pandemic and recession is even more difficult, but also more important. As we prepare the launch of the 31st edition of our annual IT Spending and Staffing Benchmarks report, this is the challenge.
July, 2020
QA Staffing and the Changing Nature of Software Development
IT quality assurance has always been a small but vital role in IT organizations. However, the role of quality assurance as a discrete job position is in a state of flux. The changing nature of software development is a big influence in QA staffing. This Research Byte examines the reasons for the trend and provides a summary of our full report on IT quality assurance staffing ratios.
October, 2020
Data Management Staffing Ratios 2020
The data explosion is finally making an impact on data management staffing. Through the middle of the decade, data management staffing plateaued despite the fact that organizations of all sizes were making more use of data. However, data management head count recently has increased significantly. In this study, we use four benchmarks to assess data management staffing levels: data management staff as a percentage of the IT staff, data management staff as a percentage of the Application Group, users per data management staff member, and applications per data management staff member. (21 pp., 10 fig.)
September, 2020
IT Asset Management Adoption and Best Practices 2019
IT organizations often find it difficult to track all of the information about IT assets, such as hardware and software licenses, along with critical data such as location, configuration, and renewal dates. In response, companies have worked to set up IT asset management and configuration management systems, and processes to bring IT assets into a common management framework. In this report, we describe why IT asset management is an important process and the challenges it faces.
August, 2019
IT Quality Assurance Staffing Ratios 2020
Staffing levels for IT quality assurance personnel are in a state of flux for several reasons, including the new ways in which software is being developed and the varying needs of industry sectors. In this report, we first evaluate recent changes in IT QA staffing levels. We then provide three benchmarks by organization size and by sector: QA staff as a percentage of the IT staff, QA staff as a percentage of the Application Group, and applications per QA staff member.
October, 2020
Blockchain Services 2020–2021 RadarView™
The Blockchain Services 2020-2021 RadarView™ report provides information to assist enterprises in charting out their action plan for blockchain adoption. It identifies key global service providers and system integrators that can expedite their blockchain journey. The 69-page report also highlights key industry trends in the blockchain space and Avasant’s viewpoint on them.
December, 2020
Elevating the Role of the CIO
CIOs are being asked to expand their role to support business change and innovation while they are struggling with maintaining aging infrastructure and declining resources. This report provides guidance for CIOs on how to elevate their role within the organization to one that has a meaningful influence on meeting strategic business objectives.
December, 2011
Three Ways to Benchmark IT Spending
Benchmarking is a time-tested way for IT executives to justify their IT budgets and focus on 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 only way to objectively measure an organization’s IT budget against industry standards.
February, 2013
Intelligent Automation Tools 2020 RadarView™
The Intelligent Automation Tools 2020 RadarView™ report is designed to help enterprises identify the right tool vendor for implementing and scaling their automation engagement. It assesses the tool vendors basis their hyperautomation capabilities across the entire automation toolkit, flexibility in the pricing model, efforts to reduce TCO, maturity and scale of operations, and initiatives to increase citizen development and democratize RPA.
October, 2020
Enterprise Security Orchestration Platforms 2020 RadarView™
The Enterprise Security Orchestrion Platforms 2020 RadarView™ report is designed to help enterprises make strategic decisions to identify the best security orchestration platform to build their SOC. It assesses the platform providers based on automation capabilities, the number of predefined playbooks, built-in integrations, flexibility in the pricing model, efforts to reduce TCO, and the maturity and scale of the operation.
October, 2020
ITIL Adoption Unlikely To Show Significant Growth
Although large IT organizations are continuing to embrace the Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL), the number of organizations committed to full ITIL implementation remains relatively small. When practiced correctly, ITIL should have a deep impact on an IT organization’s core processes. This Research Byte provides a summary of our full report on ITIL adoption and best practices.
April, 2019
Intelligent Platforms Changing the Automation Landscape
The RPA industry has shifted toward hyperautomation, which leverages AI, ML, and NLP to enable end-to-end automation. Tool vendors have evolved their solutions into enterprise-class suites covering the entire automation lifecycle by bundling process discovery, workflow orchestration, prediction and recommendation, document processing, analytics, and unified dashboards. Software vendors such as SAP, Microsoft, IBM, and Oracle have also entered the AI-led automation marketplace by embedding automation in their applications and platforms, organically or inorganically.
October, 2020
Computer Economics: Revisiting the Impact of COVID-19 on IT Organizations in 2020
Computer Economics: Impact of the Coronavirus Pandemic on IT Budgets in 2020 At the beginning of 2020, IT organizations were poised for another year of strong IT operational budget growth—and then the global coronavirus pandemic struck. IT leaders are changing their priorities for new projects as a result of COVID-19. Based on the results of the 31st annual Computer Economics IT spending survey just completed, Avasant’s digital forum “Computer Economics: Impact of the Coronavirus Pandemic on IT Budgets in 2020” discussed how companies are responding to the crisis.
October, 2020
Data Management Staffing Catching up with Data Explosion
The data explosion is finally making an impact on data management staffing. Through the middle of the 2010s, data management head count plateaued. But in the last two years, data management staffing has risen sharply. This Research Byte examines the reasons for the slowing trend and provides a summary of our full report on server support staffing ratios.
September, 2020
Server Support Staffing Ratios 2020
In state-of-the-art data centers—whether operated on-premises or by managed service providers—demand for server support administrators has declined since 2012. How many server support staff members does an organization need today? To answer that question, we provide four key benchmarks: server support staff as a percentage of the IT staff, users per server support staff member, physical servers per server support staff member, and OS instances per server support staff member.
September, 2020
Information Technology Infrastructure Library Adoption and Best Practices 2019
Although large IT organizations are continuing to embrace the Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL), the number of organizations committed to full ITIL implementation remains relatively small. This report begins with a brief explanation of ITIL’s history and current framework for IT service management, including its relationship with new approaches to change management, such as DevOps.
April, 2019