Want to know where the top CIOs are really spending their IT dollars — assuming they have any IT dollars to spend?
Some insights are in a recent IDG Research Services tally of major corporations done for AT&T. They found that the top three technologies that companies are most likely to invest in during the next 18 months are:
1. Wireless networking
2. Business continuity planning, and
3. Remote access
This correlates closely, IDG says, with CIOs’ “perceived benefits for productivity, collaboration and innovation.”
Next on the list were investments in compliance, encryption and VoIP.
“Surprisingly, the more hyped technologies show only average investment potential,” says IDG. “For example, VoIP may have rated low for future investments because companies have already deployed it. And the terms ‘Web 2.0’ and ‘unified communications’ are relatively new and could be too nebulous for some respondents.”
Least likely investments in the next 18 months are RFID and utility computing.