ChangeWave's latest corporate software survey points to a slower pace of improvement than we found last quarter. Nonetheless, the April 10-25 survey shows a very slight uptick in overall software spending going forward, led by Data Storage and CRM. Most other business software categories are holding steady or are down slightly.

A total of 1,126 respondents involved with software purchasing in their company participated in the survey. ChangeWave Research is a service of 451 Research.

Report details include:

• 90 Day Enterprise Software Spending Projections
• Adjustments to Overall Capital Budgets
• Key Reasons Behind Planned Software Spending
• A Look at Software Categories Going Forward – including BI, Data Storage, Virtualization, CRM, SCM, ECM, and ERP, among others
• Top 5 Types of Applications/ Technologies Running on Virtual Servers
• Impact of Cloud Spending on Corporate IT Budgets
• Spending on Cloud vs. Other Software and IT Services

The Complete Consumer Tablet and PC Spending Report is available here.