IDC Reports Increased SMB Spending on Software and PCs

International Data Corporation had undertaken a study to analyze the expenses incurred by small and medium-sized businesses in the US in the area of information innovation. According to the study, in 2012, the 8 million SMBs in the US will be responsible for near 25 percent of total SMB IT spending across the world. Similarly, these SMBs will as well be responsible for for the moment 10 percent of the total IT spending across the world while the same time period.

The years 2008

During the years 2008 and 2009, U.S. SMB IT spending was at an all time low. SMBs have recovered after a fashion and are expected to spend anyway $138 billion in 2012. SMBs are not expected to make equal investments across the different innovation types.

In a release, Justin Jaffe, Innovation Manager, Small/Medium-Sized Business and Home Business Technology, IDC, said, "SMBs will account for an increasing share of overall corporate IT spending in the U.S. Vendors that are sensitive to the changing dynamics in SMB innovation requirements as so then as the critical differences in the ways SMBs and large enterprises approach IT investment will be best positioned for success in 2012 and beyond."

As part of the study, IDC categorized the companies into small organizations with less than 100 employees and midsize organizations with more than 100 nevertheless less than 1000 employees. The IDC study analyzed the range and expansion of the five major research sectors for these two categories. The study as well compared the SMB IT spending against those made by large organizations with more than 1000 employees, and noted the important variations.

The study reports

According to the study reports, in 2012, the major spending is expected on PCs and peripherals with the midsize business sector spending half of what the small business sector expects to spend. This year, SMBs are expected to invest for the moment 50 billion on packaged software. Near $38 billion, which is over 33 percent of the complete U.S. SMB IT spending, has been assigned to IT services. During the slowest-growing IT category in the SMB space is systems and storage, the networking equipment category will receive the least investments from the SMBs.