Australian CIOs mad for social media

Beverley Head
Wednesday, 18 May 2011 16:05

Business IT - Technology

Chief information officers in Australia want you doing it for yourselves. A global survey of CIOs released by IBM has found that IT managers in Australia and New Zealand are much keener on self-service online portals, collaboration and social networking tools than their international peers.

While 57 per cent of global CIOs were keen to deploy self service portals, 77 per cent of ANZ CIOs wanted to pursue this opportunity. And while 55 per cent of global CIOs were exploring collaboration and social networking opportunities, a much higher 68 per cent of local CIOs were planning to invest in this area.

ANZ CIOs were also more enthused about deploying business intelligence and predictive analytics, virtualisation and mobile solutions than their international peers.

Where there was perfect alignment was in the area of cloud computing with 60 per cent of all CIOs expressing an interest in this approach to computing. For ANZ CIOs that has grown significantly - two years ago when IBM last surveyed local CIOs only 33 per cent were interested in the cloud.

But it seems some of the interest may still be tyre kicking.

As Tony Kesby, CIO of Vida Advantage, one of three ANZ CIOS invited to participate in today's media launch of the IBM CIO report, noted a migration to the cloud was not guaranteed for all applications. Instead the approach was; 'We ask 'why not' when we have a refresher,' he said.

Boral CIO Greg Palmer meanwhile said that his organisation had taken a close look at cloud, but felt it first needed to complete consolidation and virtualisation programmes.

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