According to the survey, in recent years, the average growth rate of IT expenditure is only 6.6%, and there are quite a lot of variables behind it. The daily measures to reduce cost and the newly-emerging technical trends have kept many enterprises busy in implementing major changes throughout the whole enterprise. IT funds have also become active this year, often being transferred from one project to another. In such circumstances, how CIOs allocate resources may possibly increase the chances of success of the overall projects of enterprises, and may also seriously affect the overall projects. The stakes are so high that you do not dare to invest too much in one aspect of a project because you worry that it will affect the normal implementation of another project.
This year, most CIOs may have invested too much in supporting business and too little in promoting business. This is not surprising. However, those companies which are good at making full use of their funds are likely to provide the extra funds for new projects aimed at accelerating the achievement of business goals, thereby increasing the total value of IT to the entire company.
"InfoWorld" has conducted a survey on analysts, experts and industry leaders to learn about over-investment and under-investment in projects vital to the success or failure of companies. These seven aspects are: SOA, regulatory compliance, security, virtualization technology, collaboration, networking and application development.
1. Draw up budgets to ensure the success of SOA
In the past few years, due to the efforts of many companies to tap the potential of Web services and thus increase the value of existing IT resources, there have been calls for adopting service-oriented architecture (SOA) across the board. However, most activities related to SOA have been limited to discussions, investigations, planning and small-scale projects.
With early adopters moving from the proof-of-concept (POC) implementation phase to a more reliable deployment phase, and late adopters accepting the architectural shift, SOA expenditures will see a sharp rise in 2007. However, without insight and foresight, many...