Gartner now offers little reason for treasurers to be optimistic about tech budgets.
Perhaps they got a better look at the budget numbers.
In early December 2009, consulting firm Gartner released a survey of senior executives in the US and UK revealing a bullish outlook for information technology spending in 2010. (Gartner wasn’t alone: Accenture also found more support for IT spending this year.) Zip ahead to January 2010 and things look a little less hopeful: A new Gartner survey of chief information officers shows flat spending in 2010. This follows an average drop of 8.1 percent in 2009 technology budgets.