ChangeWave's latest corporate software survey points to unmistakable signs of growth – including the first major uptick in software spending of the past year.

The January 10-25 survey finds positive spending increases across most business software categories, led by Virtualization and BI.

A total of 1,579 respondents involved with software purchasing in their company participated in the survey. ChangeWave is a service of 451 Research.

Report details include:

• 90 Day Enterprise Software Spending Projections
• Projected Software Spending By Company Size
• Adjustments to Overall Capital Budgets
• A Look at Software Categories Going Forward – including BI, Data Storage, Virtualization, CRM, SCM, ECM, and ERP, among others
• Key Reasons Behind Future Software Spending
• Closer Look at Virtualization
• Impact of Cloud Spending on Corporate IT Budgets

The complete Corporate Software Report is available here.