Application Development, Maintenance and Management

The SharePoint pivot tables contains information on how organizations address SharePoint implementations. The data offers insight into the business motivation behind SharePoint, the benefits realized from the implementation, the costs associated with it and the level of customization required.

On-demand delivery of software, or Software as a Service, is set to become an important part of the software budget of corporate North America. Small companies expect to spend more than 25% of their software budgets on SaaS in the next two years. This represents a significant opportunity that software vendors cannot afford to ignore, and that service providers can use to increase share-of-wallet.

The Outsourcing/Offshoring pivot table contains information on the key products, tools or vendors IT managers explored for various outsourcing/offshoring projects. It points out the top three application projects outsourced, the types of companies most likely to use outsourcing/offshore suppliers for applications projects, and their preferred approach to initiating such projects.

The Applications pivot table contains information on how software projects are prioritized, budgeted, managed, staffed and delivered, and the metrics used to determine success. Specific software applications in this research include service-oriented architecture, content and data management, mobile applications and outsourcing of application development/maintenance.

Info-Tech’s second annual forecast on IT spending in the US indicates that four industries dominate the landscape: Business Services, Financial Services, Government and Manufacturing account for more than 60% of spending on IT products and services. The ITAMTM provides a market opportunity perspective that is based on the IT budgets of more than 1,700 organizations in the US.

Info-Tech’s first Canadian forecast provides a framework to help IT product and service companies better understand the commercial market opportunity. The ITAM™ provides market sizing -- by major technology product/services areas -- based on extensive demand-side data. Key opportunities are identified, both by both size of account and by vertical market. The authors give specific guidance as to the product/service areas poised for growth and the types of accounts that are the best prospects in those areas.

This report provides guidance to vendors looking to make inroads into the market for business support applications. The three categories covered in the Business Support Solution module – financial/administrative applications, industry-specific applications and content/data management applications – have unique decision-maker attributes relative to the software market as a whole. The market for financial/administrative applications, for example, is more heavily shaped by executive management than any other software market. The market for industry-specific applications, meanwhile, is more heavily shaped primarily by line of business management than is the norm.

Are you looking to have access to end user and buyer behavior data so you can cut and customize the information to derive the conclusions you need? All the data we used to create the Indaba series of Market Advisor Reports is available to you in Pivot Table format, giving you the flexibility to change the views and the presentation of the data.

Are you looking to have access to end user and buyer behavior data so you can cut and customize the information to derive the conclusions you need? All the data we used to create the Indaba series of Market Advisor Reports is available to you in Pivot Table format, giving you the flexibility to change the views and the presentation of the data.

This report addresses a question that has been the subject of much debate in the IT industry: Do product acquisitions naturally follow services engagements, and if so, what role does the services organization play in sourcing products required by the client? We look at four areas where services engagements frequently drive demand for "solution-necessary" products: Software Integration, Security-related Consulting, Software Hosting and Software Development - and offer recommendations for how services and product vendors can partner to maximize their reach into an account.