ICT budget and staffing trends in Utilities - Enterprise ICT investment plans

Product Synopsis
This report presents the findings from a survey of 149 utilities regarding their Information and Communications Technology (ICT) budgets and staff allocation. The survey investigates how utilities currently allocate their ICT budgets across the core areas of ICT spend, namely hardware, software, IT services, communications and consulting.

Introduction and Landscape

Why was the report written?
In order to provide a depth of insight into ICT vendors' and service providers' potential customers.
What is the current market landscape and what is changing?
According to Kable's survey, the allocation of ICT budgets to hardware and services is expected to remain at the same level in 2013 as in 2012, whilst the budget allocation for software is expected to increase over the same period.

What makes this report unique and essential to read?
Kable Global ICT Intelligence has invested significant resources in order to interview CIOs and IT managers about their IT Budgets. Very few IT analyst houses will have interviewed 140+ ICT decision makers in the utility industry in H2 2012.

Key Features and Benefits
Understand how ICT budgets are set to change in 2013 in terms of their overall size.
Appreciate how budgets are allocated across the core elements of ICT spend, including hardware, software, services, communications and consulting.
Learn how ICT money is being spent in areas such as the data center, applications, IT management and the network.
Establish how IT staff are typically allocated within utilities.
Gain insight into with whom utilities plan to spend their ICT money.


Key Highlights
Kable's survey suggests that utilities are allocating a major portion of their external ICT budgets on hardware, software, and IT services in 2013, which is slightly higher than their combined allocation in 2012.
According to the survey, utilities are set to increase their ICT budget allocations to IT management from 11% in 2012 to 12% in 2013 to ensure the effective and efficient management of their IT assets.
Technology (product) vendors and systems integrators are given higher importance by utilities, with average allocations of 17% and 16% respectively in 2012. Moreover, spending with technology (product) vendors and systems integrators is expected to retain the status quo in 2013 as well.

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