November 05, 2008

Warning: Icebergs Ahoy!

Picture_16 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...

  1. Ten Fast Facts About Document Management Value
  2. Eight Things to Watch For in the Coming Recession
  3. Bailout, Stock Collapse, and IT Spending

Nov 5, 2008 10:15:30 PM

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