Protiviti - New IT Trends Survey 2016
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From Cloud, Mobile, Social, IoT and Analycs to Digizaon and Cybersecurity Benchmarking Budgets and Priorities for Technology Leaders The results of Provi’s annual survey of technology leaders shed light on the current state of IT operaons, challenges and compeng priories. There is no queson that IT transformaon efforts, including cloud compung, analycs and digizaon, are garnering increased aenon and more dollars, as is cybersecurity. Yet organizaons may not be invesng enough in innovaon. At the same me, considering the greater impact of emerging technology disruptors, more progress is needed to mature the performance of security and privacy capabilies across the enterprise. To review detailed results from Provi’s annual survey of technology leaders, visit protiviti.com. © 2016 Provi Inc. An Equal Opportunity Employer M/F/Disability/Veterans. Provi is not licensed or registered as a public accounng firm and does not issue opinions on financial statements or offer aestaon services. 54 % of organizaons have increased IT budgets by more than 10 percent compared to last year. of organizaons ulize offshore resources to support or augment the IT funcon. 40 % 39 % of organizaons are undergoing a major IT transformaon. New funconality 53% Cost opmizaon 43% Operaonal improvement 41% Adopon of emerging technology 40% Business/IT alignment 38% Legacy infrastructure 43% IT culture not agile to change 39% IT skills gap with desired state 37% Legacy processes 36% Cost/budget limitaons 36% Operaons 33% Maintenance 22% Security 16% Discreonary enhancements 14% Innovaon 13% Compliance 10% Increased > 30% 8% Increased 20-30% 8% Increased 10-20% 24% Increased 1-10% 31% No change 18% Decreased 1-10% 5% Decreased 10-20% 2% Decreased > 20% 2% What’s driving IT transformaon efforts? Where are IT dollars going? What’s impeding IT transformaon efforts? How have IT budgets changed compared to one year ago? Today’s Top 10 IT Priories (including es)* * Based on a 10-point scale where “10” represents a high priority and “1” represents a low priority. (e) Rank IT Area Priority Index 1 Managing and administering backup and recovery 6.63 2 Virus/malware advanced threat detecon/eradicaon 6.58 3 Incident response success (containment, recovery) 6.52 4 Incident response policy and preparedness 6.45 5 Implemenng security/privacy soluons and strategies 6.44 6 Monitoring security events 6.43 7 Incident response reacon me 6.38 8 Managing project quality 6.33 9 Data breach and privacy laws (various U.S. states) 6.32 10 Vulnerability scanning 6.29 Cloud storage of data 6.29 IT project management 6.29 How are companies approaching the cloud? 64% Organizaons that are focusing on and invesng in cloud adopon 23% Applicaons, infrastructure and plaorms that currently are cloud-based 31% Applicaons, infrastructure and plaorms that will be cloud-based in 3 years 70% Organizaons that ulize soſtware-as-a-service Who’s focusing on digizaon? 57% All organizaons 73% Consumer products and retail organizaons 63% Financial services organizaons
Transcript of Protiviti - New IT Trends Survey 2016
From Cloud, Mobile, Social, IoT andAnalytics to Digitization and CybersecurityBenchmarking Budgets and Priorities for Technology LeadersThe results of Protiviti’s annual survey of technology leaders shed light on the current state of IT operations, challengesand competing priorities. There is no question that IT transformation efforts, including cloud computing, analytics anddigitization, are garnering increased attention and more dollars, as is cybersecurity. Yet organizations may not be investing enough in innovation. At the same time, considering the greater impact of emerging technology disruptors, more progressis needed to mature the performance of security and privacy capabilities across the enterprise.
To review detailed results from Protiviti’s annual survey of technology leaders, visit protiviti.com.
© 2016 Protiviti Inc. An Equal Opportunity Employer M/F/Disability/Veterans.
Protiviti is not licensed or registered as a public accounting firm and does not issue opinionson financial statements or offer attestation services.
54 % of organizations have increased IT budgets by more than 10 percent compared to last year.
of organizations utilize offshore resources to support or augment the IT function.
40 % 39 % of organizations are undergoing a major IT transformation.
New functionality 53%Cost optimization 43%Operational improvement 41%Adoption of emerging technology 40%Business/IT alignment 38%
Legacy infrastructure 43%IT culture not agile to change 39%IT skills gap with desired state 37%Legacy processes 36%Cost/budget limitations 36%
Operations 33%Maintenance 22%Security 16%Discretionary enhancements 14% Innovation 13%Compliance 10%
Increased > 30% 8%Increased 20-30% 8%Increased 10-20% 24%Increased 1-10% 31%No change 18%Decreased 1-10% 5%Decreased 10-20% 2%Decreased > 20% 2%
What’s driving IT transformation efforts?
Where are IT dollars going?
What’s impeding IT transformation efforts?
How have IT budgets changed compared to one year ago?
Today’s Top 10 IT Priorities (including ties)*
* Based on a 10-point scale where “10” represents a high priority and “1” represents a low priority.
(tie)
Rank IT Area Priority Index
1 Managing and administering backup and recovery 6.63 2 Virus/malware advanced threat detection/eradication 6.58 3 Incident response success (containment, recovery) 6.52 4 Incident response policy and preparedness 6.45 5 Implementing security/privacy solutions and strategies 6.44 6 Monitoring security events 6.43 7 Incident response reaction time 6.38 8 Managing project quality 6.33 9 Data breach and privacy laws (various U.S. states) 6.3210 Vulnerability scanning 6.29 Cloud storage of data 6.29
IT project management 6.29
How are companies approaching the cloud?64% Organizations that are focusing on and investing in
cloud adoption23% Applications, infrastructure and platforms that currently
are cloud-based31% Applications, infrastructure and platforms that will be
cloud-based in 3 years70% Organizations that utilize software-as-a-service
Who’s focusing on digitization?57% All organizations73% Consumer products and retail organizations63% Financial services organizations
