Kudos to for this post on InformationZen by Naresh Devnani, which links back to this original report from Change Wave. Not good news.
Some excerpts from the report...
ChangeWave’s latest corporate software survey, conducted October
6-15, 2008 shows a striking deterioration in software purchasing plans
for the next 90 days. In a sharp reminder of the severity of the
current U.S. recession, the spending decline is now hitting all software categories – the first time this has occurred in a ChangeWave survey. A total of 1,841 respondents involved with software purchasing in their company participated in the current survey. Two-in-five corporate software purchasers (40%) now say their company will spend less on software over the next 90 days – a whopping 15-pts worse than our previous survey in July. ...
In a clear sign of recessionary times, all software categories are experiencing decreased spending going forward – with Document & Enterprise Content Management (ECM; Net Score = -26), Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP; -24), Business Intelligence (BI; -21) and Customer Relationship Management software (CRM; -20) taking the biggest hit.
A few recent posts on this subject...
- Ten Fast Facts About Document Management Value
- Eight Things to Watch For in the Coming Recession
- Bailout, Stock Collapse, and IT Spending
