Boston, MA -- (SBWIRE) -- 04/21/2014 -- The ICT investment trends in China report published by Kable Global ICT Intelligence presents the findings from a survey of 131 Chinese enterprises regarding their Information and Communications Technology (ICT) investment trends. The report illustrates the core technologies enterprises are investing in, including the likes of mobility, business intelligence, green IT and virtualization, and cloud computing.

Key Findings

- Kable's survey of 131 Chinese enterprises highlights that X% of respondents are planning to increase their ICT budget in 2014, which is a staggering increase of X% compared to 2013.
- According to Kable's survey, Chinese enterprises are planning to invest X% of their external ICT budgets in hardware, software, and IT services in 2014, which is more than the combined allocation in 2013 (X%).
- Chinese enterprises are allocating the highest proportion of their hardware budgets to client computing technologies (X%) followed by network and communications equipment (X%) in 2013.

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Synopsis
This report presents the findings from a survey of 131 Chinese enterprises regarding their Information and Communications Technology (ICT) investment trends. The survey investigates how Chinese enterprises currently allocate their ICT budgets across the core areas of enterprise ICT spend, namely hardware, software, IT services, communications and consulting.
The report illustrates the core technologies enterprises are investing in, including the likes of mobility, business intelligence, green IT and virtualization, and cloud computing. The survey also highlights the approach adopted by enterprises in China to purchase technology. Through Kable's survey, the report aims to provide better insight to ICT vendors and services providers when pitching their solutions to enterprises in China.
In particular, it provides an in-depth analysis of the following:

- Understand how ICT budgets are set to change in 2014 in terms of their overall size.
- Appreciate how IT budgets are allocated across the core elements of IT spend, including hardware, software, services, communications, and consulting.
- Learn how IT Yuan are being spent in areas such as the data centre, applications, IT management and the network.
- Gain an understanding regarding which ICT functions Chinese enterprises are interested in outsourcing.
- Identify Chinese enterprises' investment priorities based on their budget allocations across core technology categories such as mobility, communications and collaboration, green IT and virtualization, and cloud computing.
- Learn about the drivers that are influencing Chinese enterprises' investments in each technology category.
- Establish how Chinese enterprises' IT budgets are currently allocated across various segments within a technology category.

Companies Mentioned in this Report: Microsoft, IBM, Oracle, Google, Apple, HP, RIM, BT, Vodafone, Nokia, Verizon, Orange, ATandT, Dell, Cisco, VMware, Amazon web services, Rackspace, Salesforce.com, Deutsche Telekom/T-Systems, SAP, SAS, Microstrategy, Information Builders, TibcoSpotfire, Open source BI (e.g. Pentaho, JasperSoft).

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