Tuesday, September 29, 2009

Survey: IT Development Budgets On the Rise

According to the latest IDC survey, IT development projects are on the rise in 2009.

With more than 6,000 respondents surveyed, there’s a pronounced tendency that IT budgets are increasing this year and the overall IT landscape looks more promising. Respondents were senior business leaders and software development professionals from independent software vendors, enterprises with more than 500 employees, SMEs, and other organizations for which software development was a key business focus or priority.

The major takeaways from the survey read:
• 38% of companies are outsourcing "some software development" to India, China, Ukraine and other Eastern European countries;
• 71% of respondents said new product or software development was a "top priority" for their organization;
• 51% of respondents said "saving money" was a top priority for their organization;
• 42% of respondents said agile methodologies were their software development models of choice,
• 36% of companies use Capability Maturity Model Integration as their process maturity and quality model;
• 62% of respondents focus their software development efforts on enterprise applications;
• 51% of respondents focus their software development efforts on Web-based applications;
• 42% of organizations execute software customization and integration in different systems and environments.

Rona Shuchat, director of Application Outsourcing Services at IDC, sums up: "During this economic recession, the competitive application outsourcing arena has become even more fierce as customers push for lower cost and improved operational efficiencies. Flexible, consistent delivery and management models, alongside scalability, reliability and high performance, will be critical as new hosting models become viable alternatives to the enterprise."

Source: Integration Developer News

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