Corporate Smart Phones and Tablets - 1Q 2011 Business Spending Outlook

December 1, 2010

A new ChangeWave survey points to a big uptick in corporate IT spending for 1st Quarter 2011 – the second biggest improvement in four years.

Among other things, the results bode well for 1st Quarter business spending on smart phones, tablets and PCs.

A total of 1,641 respondents involved with IT spending in their organization participated in the November 8-22 ChangeWave survey.

Smart Phone and Tablet results include:

  • Current Business Market Share: Mobile Operating Systems
  • Winning and Losing Smart Phone Manufacturers – including HTC, Motorola (MOT), Apple (AAPL), Research In Motion (RIMM), Palm (PALM), and Samsung, among others
  • Business Smart Phone Planned Buying Trends: Next 90 Days
  • An early look at corporate interest in Windows Phone 7
  • Tablet penetration in the corporate market – including current and future demand for Apple iPad vs. Hewlett-Packard (HPQ) vs. Dell (DELL) tablets, among others
  • Corporate tablet satisfaction ratings
  • Preferred wireless service providers among businesses – Verizon vs. AT&T;
  • Tablet cannibalization of other products

Overall Corporate IT Spending and PC Buying results include:

  • Projected IT Spending Trends for Next Quarter and Current Quarter
  • Spending Levels for IT Vendors – including Apple, Microsoft (MSFT) and Citrix (CTXS)
  • Leading and Lagging IT Spending Categories – including PCs, Servers, and Operating Systems
  • A Look at Future PC Demand: Dell vs. Hewlett-Packard vs. Apple

Companies in the Report:

APPLE (AAPL), AT&T; (T), CITRIX (CTXS), DELL (DELL), HEWLETT-PACKARD (HPQ), MICROSOFT (MSFT), MOTOROLA (MOT), PALM (PALM), RESEARCH IN MOTION (RIMM), VERIZON (VZ)

The complete Business Smart Phone and Tablet Report is available here.

*NOTE: ChangeWave's Business Smart Phone Demand survey is conducted quarterly, and the full series of four reports is available here.



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