IT SPENDING IN LATIN AMERICA 2009

Key points of focus for the study:

Models of IT adoption and corporate segmentation
The way that the organizations we interviewed adopt IT software:


  • Internal solutions development
  • Purchasing packets from providers
  • Development through partnerships with technological providers
  • Mixed development systems (purchase and later adaptation of technological solutions)

Ways that organizations are meeting technological challenges, as divided into four categories:

Cost-sensitive
Organizations that quickly adopt advanced technologies at a low cost, putting off adopting technologies that call for major investments

Old-fashioned
Organizations that tend to resist adopting new technologies, doing so only after they’ve been broadly tested and are solidly established on the market.

Innovators
Organizations on the cutting edge of technology that adopt the latest technologies as soon as they are available

Followers
Organizations that adopt technological solutions once they’ve been tested by others

Investment trends and new technologies:

  • Patterns of investment in technologies at all the participants’ organizations./li>


Use of platforms and operating systems::

  • Most frequently used platforms for companies’ critical systems.
  • Most used platforms in the last 2 years.
  • Sectors leading changes in the trend.
  • Latest platform investment trends.
  • Markets where the largest leaps in platform investments are expected.


Evolution of main applications:

  • A major portion of companies surveyed (46%) plan to focus IT investment on expansion and new projects instead of maintaining existing operations.
  • There exists open and widespread interest in making use of IP platforms (76% of companies surveyed) and a growing interest in mobile technology.
  • Demand is up for the development of in-house technologies and investments are growing in CRM and Business Intelligence (40% of companies surveyed are considering implementing them sometime during the next 3 years).
  • HP and Dell have taken the lead in the area of hardware.

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