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Forbes has released its eighth annual Cloud 100 list, highlighting the top private cloud computing companies globally. This list is a collaborative effort between Bessemer Venture Partners, Salesforce Ventures, and presented by VMware. As we completed our July 2023 Technology Spending Intentions Survey (TSIS) a few weeks ago, let’s examine some of our findings and explore how they … Read more

With earnings season in full swing, we highlight data reviews for Snowflake, Workday, Splunk, and Zoom. The spending intentions data cited in this article is derived from our most recent July 2023 Technology Spending Intentions Survey (TSIS), which collects 2H23 spending intentions from our qualified IT decision-maker community.

In this ETR Insights interview, the CIO and CISO of a small nonprofit medical research enterprise discussed how his organization is trying to leverage optimal value from their existing IT portfolio, while reducing spend where possible across SaaS workflows and cloud. He expects that current efforts to ramp up RPA and machine learning and artificial … Read more

Following our two-part series reviewing the Macro Views Survey data, this week, we dive into a high-level overview of the recently concluded July 2023 Technology Spending Intentions Survey (TSIS), ETR’s core syndicated survey that has been conducted quarterly for more than 12 years. This data set is the original foundation on which ETR was built, … Read more

ETR Insights presents an interview with the Director of Global IT for a large technology enterprise, who goes in depth on how his organization leverages the best of the three public cloud vendors, and where each one is lacking. He discusses strategy to contain SaaS vendor price increases and reduce exposure to any one vendor … Read more

Nearly 1,800 IT decision makers participated in ETR’s most recent Macro Views survey covering high-level IT spend trends and organizational changes. The Macro Views report highlights data analysis from our ITDM community weighing in on IT budgets, spending priorities, hiring, Gen AI trends, vendor-specific impacts, and much more. Read on for some key takeaways in part two … Read more

ETR Insights presents an interview summary with the Global Head of Enterprise Data for a large financial enterprise, which is in the midst of a multiyear shift from on-prem Teradata to GCP. Broadly they favor Microsoft Azure and GCP’s cloud-native applications and seek to consolidate any third-party vendors, with cost savings, staff training, and data … Read more

Nearly 1,800 IT decision makers participated in ETR’s most recent Macro Views survey covering high-level IT spend trends and organizational changes. The Macro Views report highlights data analysis from our ITDM community weighing in on IT budgets, spending priorities, hiring, Gen AI trends, vendor-specific impacts, and much more. Read on for some key takeaways in part one … Read more

The CIO for Global Technology Solutions at a large healthcare and tech enterprise is ready for streamlined services and robotic process automation, and he advises firms to scale back fantasy projects and focus on the “sweet spot of what their customers and clients need.” The product of a series of mergers, this organization needed to … Read more

Last week, ETR’s Research Team published Part I of the July 2023 Early Takeaways, leveraging preliminary data to examine sectors with improving and declining 2023 spending intent, as well as inflections captured at the vendor level. This week we wrap up with Part II of the series, looking deeper into year-over-year changes in Positive (Adopt … Read more