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6 IT Trends Tight Budgets Won't Kill

At first glance, consulting firm Corporate Executive Board's 2013 IT budget benchmark findings make dispiriting reading. But underneath the headline numbers are clear signs that CIOs are pressing ahead with new ways to create business value.

CEB collected and benchmarked 2013 budget plans from about 200 companies globally, representing $52 billion in IT spending. Based on our analysis, the average corporate IT budget will increase 1.8% next year. After several years of annual budget growth of between 5% and 10%, the 2013 forecast seems small. However, it's important to remember that previously more substantive increases arose from IT organizations working through a backlog of projects that built up during the recession.

The 2013 projected budget increase reflects higher operational expenditures only--capital expenditures are projected to be flat, limiting the opportunity CIOs have for continued innovation. Room for maneuvering will be further limited by that old bugbear, maintenance spending. Spending on IT maintenance and mandatory changes for legal and compliance reasons will remain stubbornly high, at 67% of total IT spending.

Despite these constraints, CIOs are planning to drive significant change next year by moving money around while keeping total spending mostly flat. What's emerging is an IT organization that sees more opportunity to drive growth through employee collaboration, insight, and mobility, and less through traditional process automation. To do this, CIOs are increasingly making IT service-based and building new IT skills and roles. Evidence of this transformation shows up in six main areas in the survey.

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Join us on October 24 for Valley View, our exciting live video show. In addition to chats with Cisco's John Chambers and Oracle's Mark Hurd, we'll also feature our Elevator Pitch session, a rapid-fire deluge of information about new technology approaches.

One company's elevator pitch we'll be highlighting: Alteryx.

To say that Alteryx is a big data company wouldn't quite do it justice. This company is on a mission to make complex data exploration and insights digestible for mere mortals, rather than just data scientists. Alteryx labels its target user "the data artisan" and talks about the consumerization of analytics. The data artisan, who is more like a business analyst, designs an application and then shares that application in the cloud -- where others can run it (or download it). Alteryx counts Wal-Mart as one of its customers, and Wal-Mart is using the platform for everything from choosing store locations to optimizing store space, and more. Check out some sample applications at www.gallery.alteryx.com.

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