In most cases, CIOs in the Asia Pacific region will be able to expand their tech budgets at a faster rate as we move into 2018. Tech budgets in the region will continue to shift toward software and services and away from hardware and telecom. Cloud solutions and business technology (BT) for winning, retaining, and serving customers will gain traction, but they will remain small parts of the market. This report provides guidance on how and where CIOs should be growing their tech spending to keep up with, if not outpace, competitors.