CIO Tech Poll: Tech Priorities 2018 Purpose and Methodology CIO Tech Poll: Top Represented Total respondents: 186 Industries: Tech Priorities High Tech 15% was conducted to Audience base: CIO Forum on Financial Services 11% gauge for the LinkedIn and CIO Services (Legal/Consulting/ Audience upcoming year Real Estate) 9% which technology Government 9% Heads of IT: 100% Manufacturing 9% areas will be the Retail/Wholesale/ focus of IT leaders, Job Titles: C-level 67% Distribution 8% and to measure Director/Manager/ Healthcare 7% the direction of Supervisor 20% Education 5% spending within EVP/SVP/VP 10% those categories. Other 3% 2 Enterprises Expect Tech Budget Growth 59% 57% 56% 57% Enterprise 54% 53% 53% 53% 51% 50% 45% SMB 48% 46% 39% 38% 36% 34% 35% 33% 39% 31% 28% Enterprise 28% 28% 38% 32% 25% 45% SMB 18% 29% 23% 13% 14% 12% 12% 19% 16% 16% Enterprise 13% 13% 10% SMB 11% Nov. 10 Apr. 11 Aug. 11 Jan. 12 July 12 Nov. 12 Nov. 13 Nov. 14 Nov. 15 Nov. 16 May 17 Dec. 17 Increase Decrease Remain the Same Q: Will your overall IT budget increase, decrease or remain the same in the next 12 months compared to the past 12 months? Source: CIO Tech Poll: Tech Priorities, 2010 - 2018; CIO Tech Poll: Economic Outlook, 2011 - 2017 3 Aligning Research with Tech Initiative Spending 47% 47% 46% 45% 44% 44% 43%44% 43% 41% 37% 35% 27% 23% 20% 16% 16% 12% Plan to increase Biz continuity/ Predictive analytics Public cloud Hybrid cloud Machine learning/ AI Mobile devices Data Private cloud spending disaster recovery cognitive systems mgmt./storage in the next 37% 12 months 33% 32% 32% 32% 28% 29% 29% 28% 27% 24% 25% 22% 21% Actively 16% researching or have on 9% their radar Internet of Things Software defined SDN Virtualization, Virtualization, Robotics Co-location Virtualization, WAN server storage services desktop/application Q: Which option best describes your current activity for each of the following technology initiatives? AND Will your spending for each of the following technology initiatives increase, decrease or remain the same in the next 12 months compared to the past 12 months? BASE: Among those having some interest in the technology initiative. Source: CIO Tech Poll: Tech Priorities, 2018 4 Security Related Tools Prove to be Single Most Important Tech Project Business continuity/disaster recovery 22% Predicitve analytics 13% Data management/storage 12% 16% Enterprise Hybrid cloud 11% 8% SMB Mobile devices 8% Public cloud 8% 0% Enterprise Artificial Intelligence 12% SMB 6% Machine learning 4% Internet of Things 4% SDN 3% Q: Of the technologies that you mentioned you have implemented or are considering implementing, which is the single most important technology project that your IT department is working on right now? Source: CIO Tech Poll: Tech Priorities, 2018 5 New Data/Analytics Companies Have an Advantage Big data and analytics 57% Connected devices/Internet of Things 43% Cloud computing 43% Mobile 38% Social media 36% Enterprise applications (BI, CRM, ERP, etc,) 32% Unified communications 27% Application development 25% Hardware/servers 24% Storage 23% Q: For which technology areas is your organization most likely to consider partnering with a newer technology vendor? Source: CIO Tech Poll: Tech Priorities, 2017 6 Continue the Conversation To receive a briefing on the full results from this study, or for more information, please contact your IDG sales executive or visit www.idg.com/contact-us. To get results from CIO research when it happens, or any other news, follow us on Twitter: @AdamIDG Sign up to receive our monthly marketing newsletter at www.idg.com Visit us on LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/company/international-data-group--idg-/ 7