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ICT budget and staffing trends in Norway -
Enterprise ICT investment plans to 2013

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This report presents the findings from a survey of 45 Norwegian
enterprises regarding their Information and Communication
Technology (ICT) budgets and staff allocation. The survey
investigates how Norwegian enterprises currently allocate their
ICT budgets across the core areas of enterprise ICT spend,
namely hardware, software, IT services, communications and
consulting.

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Product Synopsis
This report presents the findings from a survey of 45 Norwegian
enterprises regarding their Information and Communication
Technology (ICT) budgets and staff allocation. The survey
investigates how Norwegian enterprises currently allocate their
ICT budgets across the core areas of enterprise ICT spend,
namely hardware, software, IT services, communications and
consulting.
Introduction and Landscape
Why was the report written?
In order to provide a depth of insight into ICT vendors' and service
providers' potential customers.
What is the current market landscape and what is changing?

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With the Norwegian economy doing well, enterprises in Norway
are looking to invest in core technology areas but at the same
time disruptive technologies like SaaS and convergence are also
gaining momentum.
What are the key drivers behind recent market changes?
Norwegian enterprises' need to reduce costs, improve scalability,
and achieve operational efficiency is driving the adoption of new
and disruptive technology models.
What makes this report unique and essential to read?
Kable Global ICT Intelligence has invested significant resources in
order to interview CIOs and IT managers about their ICT Budgets.
Very few IT analyst houses will have interviewed 40+ ICT decision
makers in the Norwegian market in H2 2012.
Key Features and Benefits
Understand how ICT budgets are set to change in 2013 in terms of
their overall size.

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Appreciate how budgets are allocated across the core elements of
ICT spend, including hardware, software, services,
communications and consulting.
Learn how ICT Krone are being spent in areas such as the data
centre, applications, IT management and the network.
Establish how IT staff are typically allocated within Norwegian
organizations.
Gain insight into with whom Norwegian enterprises plan to spend
their ICT Krone.
Key Market Issues
According to Kable's survey, spending on hardware is going to
take a hit in 2013, as Norwegian enterprises are planning to spend
X% of their total ICT budget on hardware, a X% decrease
compared to 2012.

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Norwegian enterprises are set to reduce their spend on data
centre by X% in 2013 compared to 2012.
Norwegian enterprises are expected to invest X% of their total ICT
budgets on internal development and maintenance in 2013, an
increase of X% over 2012.
Enterprises in Norway are also looking to invest considerably in
security solutions, allocating X% of their total hardware budgets
to this category.
Kable's recent survey shows Norwegian enterprises are allocation
X% of the total telecommunications budget on fixed voice
networks.
Key Highlights

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According to Kable's survey, X% of respondents have increased
their ICT budget slightly or significantly in 2012, and X% have
plans to increase their ICT budget in 2013 - a significant X%
increase compared to 2012.
In 2013, enterprises are going to spend X% of their total ICT
budgets on software, X% increase over 2012.
End-user computing is going to witness X% increase in 2013,
driven by the proliferation of tablets and smart phones as an
increasing part of organisations' composition.
The survey reveals that Norwegian enterprises are investing X% of
their overall software budgets to SaaS.
In order to reduce their telecommunications expenditure,
Norwegian enterprises are shifting their focus to converged voice
and data networks (allocating about X% of their total telecom
budgets in this area).

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1 Trends in ICT budgets
1.1 Introduction
1.2 Survey demographics
1.3 ICT budget changes
1.4 ICT budget allocation by core technology area
1.5 ICT budget allocation by function
1.6 ICT spending by entity
1.7 IT staff distribution
2 Detailed ICT budget allocations
2.1 Introduction
2.2 Hardware budget breakdown
2.3 Software budget breakdowns
2.4 Third party IT services expenditure
2.5 Telecommunications budget

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3 Summary
3.1 Norway's economic stability is driving the demand for core technologies and IT services
4 Appendix
4.1 Definitions
4.2 Further reading
4.3 Contact the authors

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