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“While incumbent vendors clearly have an advantage in
terms of impacting organisations’ decisions-making process, this
advantage is not insurmountable since the majority of respondents make
decisions based on other factors,” Barnes says.
However, despite the pressure on enterprises to
look outside their existing vendor relationships, for those that do
consider their existing relationships when making architectural
planning and/or product purchase decisions, Microsoft leads from IBM,
with HP and Oracle equal in third place.
According to Springboard, Microsoft also scored the highest ranking in
terms of mindshare, again with IBM in second place ahead of Oracle.
The study also reveals that the top enterprise software classes
considered as strategic by enterprises in the APEJ (Asia Pacific
excluding Japan) are operating systems, ERP, security and CRM
respectively.
Springboard says that, while 86% of the respondent organisations in the
region consider enterprise applications to be part of their strategic
software infrastructure, only 38% consider mainframes and/or
mainframe-based applications and systems to be part of this
infrastructure.
Findings in the report are based on interviews with 442 CIOs, IT
managers and business managers at large and SMB enterprises in
Australia, China, India, Malaysia, New Zealand, the Philippines and
Singapore.
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