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Asian CIOs expect 5.32% growth in IT budget despite economic troubles, says Gartner survey
By SearchStorageAsia editors | Mar 6, 2009
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PrintAccording to a worldwide survey of 1,527 chief information officers (CIOs) accomplished by Gartner Executive Programs (EXP) from September 15 to December 15, 2008, Asian CIOs expect their information technology (IT) budgets to increase by a planned 5.32% by 2009 compared to a flat budget growth reported by 0.16% of CIOs worldwide. The survey included 71 CIOs from Hong Kong, India, Malaysia, Singapore, Taiwan, Thailand, and Philippines.
Senior enterprise executives realize that IT’s role in economic performance reaches beyond managing expenditures and touches on reducing enterprise costs. This is achieved not by cost cutting but with modifying business processes, workforce practices and information use.
Top 10 Business and Technology Priorities in 2009
The business and technology priorities of CIOs in Asia are strongly aligned with their global counterparts, with a few small differences. Servers and storage technologies are highly prioritized both in Asia and globally while document management falls behind the priority list.
| Top 10 Business Priorities | Asia Rank | Global Rank | Top 10 Technology Priorities | Asia Rank | Global Rank |
| Business process improvement | 1 | 1 | Business intelligence applications | 1 | 1 |
| Cutting enterprise costs | 2 | 2 | Enterprise applications (ERP, CRM, and others) | 2 | 2 |
| Improving enterprise workfoce effectiveness | 3 | 3 | Collaboration technologies | 3 | 5 |
| Creating new products and services (innovation) | 4 | 6 | Servers and storage technologies | 4 | 3 |
| Increase the use of information and analytics | 5 | 5 | Workflow management | 5 | - |
| Attracting ang retaining new customers | 6 | 4 | Networking, voice and data | 6 | 6 |
| Managing enterprise change initiatives | 7 | 8 | Legacy modernization, upgrade of enhancement | 7 | 4 |
| Targeting customers and markets more effectively | 8 | 7 | Service-oriented architecture (SOA) and service-oriented business applications (SOBA) | 8 | 9 |
| Creating new sources of competitive advantage | 9 | - | Security technologies | 9 | 8 |
| Expanding into new market or geographies | 10 | 10 | Technical infrastructure | 10 | 9 |
| Expanding current customer relationships | - | 9 | Document management | - | 10 |
Source: Gartner EXP (January 2009)
