Uncertain Economic Climate Yields Mixed Outlook Among IT Professionals

The latest CDW IT Monitor revealed lower expectations for budget increases and hiring, along with a drop in overall hardware spending. However, increases in software spending and a more optimistic outlook in key sectors, including small business and healthcare IT, brought balance to the broader IT sentiment.
Key findings of the report include:

-- Forty percent of IT decision-makers expect an increase in their overall IT budgets in the next six months, down eight percentage points year over year and the lowest level since October 2009.

-- State and federal government anticipate steady increases in both hardware and software spending during the next six months. The hardware spending outlook grew to 84 and 90 percent for state and federal government IT decision-makers respectively, while the software outlook grew to 82 and 91 percent respectively.

-- Twenty-two percent of small business IT decision-makers anticipate IT budget increases in the next six months, up three percentage points from June.

-- Sixty-six percent of healthcare IT decision-makers expect to spend more on solutions in the next six months, up seven percentage points from June and 21 percentage points from April.

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