SOFTWARE NEWS: Institute IT survey highlights niche growth. By John Stokdyk

Posted by AccountingWEB PM | on Wed, 31/05/2006 - 12:22  5092  1 comment

The market for business technology is caught in a strange limbo between stagnation and fragmentation, but there are enough glimpses of innovations to come to give hope to our battle-hardened suppliers.

In summary, that represents the main conclusion to be drawn from the ICAEW's latest survey of more than 1,000 accountants in business.

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david_terrar's picture

Tunnel vision?

david_terrar | Fri, 02/06/2006 - 09:38 | Permalink

From your analysis of their report, it seems like they have missed asking the 1000+ respondents many questions about the kind of innovation that is happening away from traditional on premise software, such as on-demand/SaaS based solutions, or the Web 2.0 arena. They do include VoIP, and you would expect significant increases of adoption there. But I'd like to find out more about the technology areas that were avoided and the questions they didn't ask.
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