Forrester: US IT Spending Up 4%
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Forrester has just updated its IT spending predictions. Analyst Andrew Bartels is predicting a 4% increase in U.S. IT spending in 2008. By "IT spending," Forrester includes spending on hardware, software, telecommunications, services and IT staff. |
This is a higher number than the 2.8% figure cited by the Wall Street Journal's Biz-Tech blog yesterday. Forrester has several measures of IT spending; the 2.8% figure refers to IT purchases. That number includes computer equipment, communications equipment, and software and services, but does not account for IT staff or depreciation as their IT spending metric does. The 4% figure is the most relevant benchmark for CIOs, according to Forrester.
Forrester projects that 2008 U.S. IT spending will be lower than spending in other countries: 9% in Latin America and Canada; 8% (in U.S. dollars) in Western and Central Europe; 17% in Eastern Europe, the Middle East, and Africa; and 12% in the Asia/Pacific region.
Ziff Davis Enterprise has just released our own spending data for 2008 within the next day or two--including a breakdown of spending for 50 technologies and IT services.
