Explore Sand Hill Topics: IT spending

Patrick D. Quirk, President & CEO - Emptoris, Inc.

Approximately 50 percent of the value and costs of any given company’s products or services is in the hands of suppliers, suppliers are central to risk mitigation, innovation and to controlling spending.

M.R. Rangaswami - Sand Hill Group

As we consider where the enterprise software business is headed in 2012, I believe the question we need to answer is: where’s the money?

Richard Cramer, Chief Healthcare Strategist - Informatica

In 2012, healthcare providers will finally have the data they need to run as businesses. Informatica expects to see healthcare providers increase IT investments in 2012 in 10 aspects around data and analytics.

Tom Pisello, Chairman and Founder - Alinean

Constrained IT budgets resulted in a backlog of projects, propelling business units to work outside the system, which caused "Shadow IT." Fueling the rogue spending is the ease of procuring SaaS and the proliferation of mobile devices.

Kathleen Goolsby, Editor - SandHill.com

Expert opinions on where large enterprises, midsize, and small companies will focus their IT spending on software, cloud and mobile solutions in 2012 along with insights on the biggest potential spending mistakes IT buyers will make.