Increasing interest in applications based on Web 2.0.

RESULTS from IDC's survey, Asia/Pacific Dynamic IT Benchmark 2009, reveal that 59.1 per cent of Singapore CIOs are increasing their investments in building new business applications based on Web 2.0 technologies (Portals, Mashups) and 66.7 per cent are actively standardising corporate business processes with emerging business management tools. About 59 per cent are also actively revamping social networking and collaboration services for employees in 2009.

"We are at an interesting juncture," says Dr Patrick Chan, chief technology advisor for IDC's Asia/Pacific Emerging Technology Council. "As a result of the financial downturn, corporations are under mounting pressure to invest only in IT technology that can help their businesses save costs and grow at the same time. As a result, CIOs today have very challenging roles to play. They need to balance savings against IT investments in order to achieve optimal growth for their organisations."

Some current findings about CIOs in Singapore:

* In 2009, 62.1 per cent of the Singapore CIOs surveyed are investing in Business Intelligence tools. About 59 per cent of the enterprises are more active in data centre server virtualisation projects with 42.4 per cent spending in client/ desktop virtualisation initiatives.

* 45.5 per cent of the Singapore CIOs interviewed are deploying an IT refresh strategy that focuses on service-oriented architecture (SOA). About 42 per cent of them plan to move major applications to flexible, on-demand Web-services SOA environment.--CT

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