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IT Operational Budgets at Highest Levels Since 1997

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Scott Ferguson
Scott Ferguson
Jul 10, 2006
1 minute read

IT operational budgets, as a percentage of company revenues, are at their highest levels since the late 1990s, but that increase comes as large enterprises continue to outsource IT work, according to a recent survey by research firm Computer Economics.

The survey, “IT Spending, Staffing and Technology Trends,” found that median operational budgets across the IT board represented 2 percent of overall company revenues in 2006, up from 1.7 percent in 2005 and 1.9 percent in 2004.

The 2 percent figure is the highest in the survey since 1997, when the IT world was in the middle of the dot-com boom and Y2K spending, said Frank Scavo, the president of Computer Economics, based in Irvine, Calif.

Read the full story on eWEEK.com: IT Operational Budgets at Highest Levels Since 1997

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