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Amidst an ominous economic backdrop, an eerie earnings season descends upon us, but fret not ETR followers, our apotropaic data will shield you from the ghouls and navigate the ghastly gauntlet. ETR’s macro data has captured declining tech budgets throughout the entire year and recent slowdowns in both PCs and Cloud numbers demonstrate just how … Read more

That’s right; it’s report season again. Not that ETR really ever stops its steady flow of fresh, hot data but every quarter immediately following the close of our Technology Spending Intentions Survey (TSIS), the research team works overtime to publish 70+ macro, sector, and vendor-specific reports in a very timely fashion. This morning we kicked … Read more

This is the 13th consecutive quarter over the past three years that ETR has captured Macro data, after initiating the Macro Views survey series in quick reaction to analyze the impacts brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic back in March of 2020. The survey has grown in depth and coverage since, mostly through client demand … Read more

New data from ETR’s Macro Views Drill Down is now available on ETR. With less than a week left of polling, more than 1,100+ IT decision makers have spoken their minds on back-half spending in our October 2022 Technology Spending Intentions Survey (TSIS). Review the top highlights from the new data.

ETR Insights recently interviewed the Manager of Enterprise Information Security for a large retail and distribution enterprise, who anticipates the impact of a macroeconomic downturn on retail and business spend and how this may influence their organization’s product implementation cycle, license counts, and cybersecurity budget allocation. Our guest reviews the current state of log aggregation … Read more

Let’s begin with a quick look at the data collected to date on Salesforce.com. While the October 2022 Technology Spending Intentions Survey (TSIS) is still live in the field, ~600 IT decision makers have already submitted their updated second-half 2022 spending intentions for Salesforce. This survey period will remain open for two more weeks while … Read more

With two weeks remaining in our polling period, 1000+ IT decision makers – representing over $550B in annual IT spend – have already participated in ETR’s 2H’22 Technology Spending Intentions Survey (TSIS), including 143 from Fortune 500 and 239 from Global 2000 organizations. ETR’s Research Team published an Early Takeaways report earlier this week, leveraging … Read more

The established creative and document management software company Adobe announced plans earlier this week to acquire collaborative design software company Figma for around $20 billion in cash and stock. ETR released an Early Reaction report the day the deal was announced. The following article summarizes some key takeaways from that report.

This week New Relic, in partnership with ETR, released its 2022 Observability Forecast, a robust 80-page report on the state of observability (sometimes abbreviated o11y) and monitoring. More than 1,600 tech professionals from around the globe participated in the survey, representing 14 different countries, a variety of organization sizes, and in roles ranging from engineers … Read more

ETR Insights recently interviewed the European CTO of a global consumer brand, who addressed the EU’s Digital Markets Act and how corporations are adapting to new regulation of cloud “gatekeepers.” Additionally, our guest discussed spend optimization via contract negotiations, “smart working” in a hybrid world, cybersecurity, data visualization services under Microsoft, SAP, and Google, and a … Read more