By Eleanor Reader
Emerging technologies such as mobility and cloud computing are some of
the top IT business priorities for Australian CIOs and IT decision
makers in 2013, a recent survey has found.
The survey of over 800 Australian CIOs and IT decision makers, conducted
by research firm Telsyte, showed that the top IT business priority is
security, which is deemed as “critical” by 21 per cent.
As well as cloud and mobility, more traditional technologies like
business intelligence (including big data) and skills development, named
as critical by 11 and 10 per cent of CIOs respectively, remain top of
mind.
The emerging trend of mobility outranked ICT spending, with 9 per cent of CIOs naming it a critical IT business priority.
Telsyte senior analyst and CIO program lead, Rodney Gedda, said IT
leaders have often rated security, BI, skills and other concerns like
IT-business alignment and innovation as high on their list of
priorities, but going into 2013 as emerging technologies become
mainstream, a shift in other priorities is apparent.
“With mobility in the top five of critical priorities, CIOs are
responding to demands from the business as well as a mobile-empowered
workforce, and this will only increase in 2013,” said Gedda.
“Cloud computing is now viewed as a higher priority than IT infrastructure upgrades and unified communications.”
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