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Computer Economics, a service of Avasant Research, provides metrics for IT management. Since 1979, we have been conducting original research and providing benchmarks for the strategic and financial management of information technology. Our research is used by large and midsize IT organizations, major accounting firms, and consulting firms in North America and around the world. Reports are available to Avasant subscribers or can be purchased on an individual basis. Select from our major research categories below.

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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...
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The procurement function is growing in importance in supporting a company’s success, profitability, and resiliency. Nevertheless, there are new challenges to fulfilling the mission of this critical function. These include...
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Study: IT in PJs on the Rise

In the aftermath of the pandemic, one thing appears to be here to stay: working from home. Today, a much higher percentage of IT personnel are working from home, compared...
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IT Salary Report 2023

The Computer Economics IT Salary Report 2023 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...
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Hitachi Vantara Addresses the Data Elephant in the Room

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IaaS Adoption Trends and Customer Experience 2022

The need for agility continues to drive investment in Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS). And the global pandemic and subsequent supply chain disruptions have only increased this trend. Cloud infrastructure...
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IT Project Management Staffing Ratios 2022

The role of the IT project manager is critical in this dynamic, changing IT environment. The rise in the remote/hybrid work model puts project managers in the middle of recreating...
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Cloud Governance Best Practices 2022

Cloud governance is a set of policies and practices governing an organization’s use of cloud computing to enable new capabilities and optimize cloud cost, scalability, security, compliance, and interoperability. Cloud...
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Application Developer Staffing Ratios 2022

The process of developing and maintaining enterprise applications is changing. Agile methodologies and DevOps are contributing factors to the decline in application developer staffing ratios. Low-code/no-code, rapid application development approaches...
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Desktop Support Outsourcing Trends and Customer Experience 2022

The question of whether to turn over the desktop support function to a service provider is a critical and surprisingly complicated one. Our research shows there is a strong cost...
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Oracle Charging Ahead with Cerner Integration but Big Hill to Climb

LAS VEGAS—It’s been almost a year since Oracle announced its costly acquisition of Cerner, a giant provider of digital systems to healthcare companies. But it’s been a difficult year with...
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Digital Workplace Technologies Adoption Trends and Customer Experience 2022

Over the past two years, pandemic lockdowns led to a huge boost in the adoption of digital workplace technologies to enable remote work. But even though workers are returning to...
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Organizations Increasingly Looking for Outside Help with Disaster Recovery

If there were ever any questions about the need for disaster recovery planning, those doubts were dispelled over the past few years. A worldwide pandemic, power outages, wars, and cyberattacks...
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Tough Times in Europe Call for IT Budget Growth

In recent years, Europe has been hit by a pandemic, double-digit inflation, and a war. The subsequent supply chain disruptions, shortages of food and fuel, and looming recession do not...
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Application Management Outsourcing Trends and Customer Experience 2022

As the application portfolio grows, the ongoing support for those systems can become a burden on the IT organization, leaving little time for developing and implementing new systems. In response,...
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Capital Budgets Make Up Smallest Percentage of IT Spending Ever

In contrast to the strong growth in nearly all IT spending metrics this year, IT capital budgets continue to fall as a percentage of total IT spending. Once a major...
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Cross-Border Commerce, Digital Currencies, and the Future of Money

Traditional banking and payment systems are proving to be too slow to accommodate increasing levels of e-commerce and cross-border transactions. And demands for faster payment processing will only increase as...
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IT Vendor Governance Best Practices

IT vendor management is a function and set of practices that guide the selection, management, and assessment of IT suppliers to ensure that all parties comply with the terms of...
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Network Operations Outsourcing Trends and Customer Experience 2022

Network operations is a mature but evolving outsourcing category with a wide assortment of top IT and telecom industry service providers competing with regional providers for market share. In addition,...
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System Implementation/ Integration Outsourcing Trends and Customer Experience 2022

The outsourcing of system implementation/integration is on the rise. Our report examines adoption trends and customer experience with system implementation/integration outsourcing. We report on the percentage of organizations outsourcing it...
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Big Quit Hits IT

In recent years, turnover has been low and steady among IT organizations. So when the “Big Quit” started to make headlines, the perception was that it was primarily led by...
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IT Budgets Surge Ahead Despite Choppy Economic Waters

IT budgets have faced stormy weather in recent years: a global pandemic, a brief recession brought on by lockdowns, supply chain disruptions, war in Ukraine, and a year and a...
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E-Commerce Adoption Trends and Customer Experience 2022

E-commerce technology, while mature, is still evolving. This report provides an overview of e-commerce adoption and investment trends, providing data on how many organizations have the technology in place, how...
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Supply Chain Management Adoption Trends and Customer Experience 2022

Supply chain management has become a hot topic. From empty grocery shelves to cargo ships lined up at ports, the term “supply chain” is on everyone’s lips. This report quantifies...
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Worldwide Technology Trends 2022

This major study provides insight into the customer experience and adoption rates for 14 technologies that are top-of-mind for IT leaders worldwide. The study also delves into the satisfaction level...
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IT Security Staffing Ratios 2022

High-profile security attacks and the impact of remote work continue to put pressure on IT security personnel. This report presents the five-year trend in IT security staffing and provides benchmarks for...
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DevOps Engineer Staffing Ratios 2022

DevOps is a natural extension of agile development into the deployment and operational phases of the system life cycle. It has been a way of life among modern, cloud-native software...
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Data Management Staffing Ratios

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IT Outsourcing Statistics 2022

Outsourcing levels are growing as more organizations take advantage of the cost flexibility that service providers offer. IT leaders are expecting to increase their outsourcing budgets this year, and they...

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