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• What is driving IT spending in finance across Australia?

  Investments in modern business intelligence (BI), augmented analytics and robotic process automation (RPA) will help drive IT spending in the banking and securities sector, according to Gartner.

• Slow growth ahead for IT spending, Gartner says

  The days of go-go, double-digit growth for tech are long gone and do not appear to be on the way back anytime soon.

• Australian IT spending to reach $78.1 billion in 2015: Gartner

  Gartner is forecasting Australian IT spending to grow 2.1 per cent this year, reaching $78.1 billion.

• Australian IT spending to buck global trend says Gartner

  Although the value of global IT spending is expected is predicted to drop by 1.3 per cent in 2015, spending in Australia will grow by 4.2 per cent compared to last year, according to the latest figures from Gartner.

• Security tops CIO worries; IT budgets, turnover on the rise

  CIOs are spending more on IT, worrying most about security and privacy, and staying on the job a little longer, according to the latest data from the Society for Information Management (SIM).

• Outsourcing: Crippling Mistakes IT Departments Make

  Researchers at the University of Tennessee have studied a variety of outsourcing deals-from IT and back-office work to manufacturing and logistics-and identified the most common mistakes organizations make when partnering with an external provider.

• 7 ways to cut your software costs during the economic downturn

  It's official: IT budgets, once so resilient in the face of three years of worsening economic news, aren't immune to the downturn after all.

• Five top spending priorities for hard times

  No company is immune from the economy's ebb and flow. So it's no surprise that, in the face of a fearsome downturn, IT shops are scrambling to figure out where they should cut.

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  The three drivers of converged systems

  Every so often enterprises encounter a purchase choice that’s a distinct advantage for them. Research estimates that there will be strong spending on converged infrastructure next year with more companies migrating to the cloud, increased IT complexities and better resource utilization being the 3 major driving force.