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Slower Than Expected 2011 Spending Portends 6.6% Growth In 2012
The US tech market posted weaker growth in 2011 than we expected; the outlook for 2012 is for more of the same, with business and government purchases of IT goods and services growing by 6.8% to 6.6%...
Software And IT Consulting Services Have The Best Prospects
The US tech market outlook for vendors is looking brighter for 2012 and 2013, with the US tech market projected to grow by 7.5% in 2012 (7.1% including telecommunications services) and even faster in...

Spending Growth Comes To A Halt As Europe Slides Into Recession
Overview of the European ICT Market


Vendors Should Target This Large And Growing Industry
The professional services industry presents both opportunities and challenges for tech vendors. The opportunities? Professional services is one of the largest industries in terms of tech purchases,...

US Tech Spending Growth Will Maintain A Mediocre 4% To 5% Pace
This report details Forrester's projections of tech market growth in the US. We have reduced our forecast for 2012 growth in the US tech market from our April projections of 7.5% for total US...
Economic Worries Lead Canadian CIOs To Cut Back ICT Purchases
Canada's CIOs and tech buyers are behaving as if Canada is heading for a recession — and it's not. Indeed, while the Canadian economy is growing at about the same 4% rate (at current prices) as...
Sensors, Machine-To-Machine, Analytics, And Collaboration Help CIOs Solve Business Problems
It is no surprise that CIOs have shown keen interest in cloud computing, since its variations can help reduce IT's capital and operating costs and speed up delivery of projects. But many CIOs are...

SMBs' Tech Buying Outpaces That Of Enterprises Or Consumers, But The Situation Will Reverse In 2013
For CIOs, understanding trends in the broader tech market is useful, but even more useful is information on trends for companies of their size and in their industry. With IT consumerization or...
We Forecast 6% ICT Spending Growth For Both Years
US CIOs remain torn between their need to invest in new mobile, cloud, and smart technologies and their fear of encountering economic doldrums (or worse). Over the past two and a half years, these...
Improving Economic Prospects Create Upside Potential
CIOs care about tech market trends for three reasons: 1) to understand how much other firms are spending on information and communications technologies (and where); 2) to determine where they ought...
