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This report presents the findings from a survey of 67 Dutch enterprises regarding their Information and Communications Technology (ICT) investment trends. The survey investigates how Dutch enterprises currently allocate their ICT budgets across the core areas of enterprise ICT expenditure: hardware, software, IT services, communications, and consulting.

Key Findings

* Kable's survey of 67 Dutch enterprises highlights that X% of respondents anticipate an increase in their ICT budgets in 2014, which is an increase of X% compared to 2013.
* According to Kable's survey, Dutch enterprises are planning to invest X% of their external ICT budgets in hardware, software, and IT services in 2014, which is more than the combined allocation in 2013 (X%).
* Dutch enterprises are allocating the highest proportion of their hardware budgets to client computing (X%) followed by investments in mainframes (X%) in 2013.

This report presents the findings from a survey of 67 Dutch enterprises regarding their Information and Communications Technology (ICT) investment trends. The survey investigates how Dutch enterprises currently allocate their ICT budgets across the core areas of enterprise ICT expenditure: hardware, software, IT services, communications, and consulting.

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The report illustrates the core technologies enterprises are investing in, including enterprise applications, content management, security, and IT systems management. The survey also highlights the approach adopted by enterprises in the Netherlands to purchase technology. Through Kable's survey, the report aims to provide better insight to ICT vendors and services providers when pitching their solutions to enterprises in the Netherlands.

In particular, it provides an in-depth analysis of the following:

* Understand how ICT budgets are set to change in 2014 in terms of their overall size.
* Appreciate how IT budgets are allocated across the core elements of IT spend, including hardware, software, services, communications, and consulting.
* Learn how IT Euros are being spent in areas such as the data centre, applications, IT management and the network.
* Gain an understanding regarding which ICT functions Dutch enterprises are interested in outsourcing.
* Identify Dutch enterprises' investment priorities based on their budget allocations across core technology categories such as enterprise applications, content management, security, and IT systems management.
* Learn about the drivers that are influencing Dutch enterprises' investments in each technology category.
* Establish how Dutch enterprises' IT budgets are currently allocated across various segments within a technology category.
* Gain insight into how Dutch enterprises plan to change their ICT budget allocations across various segments within a technology category.

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