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Image: President Obama testing the Federal Government IT Dashboard. Focus keyword: CIOs<\/p>\n

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Mumbai,\u00a0 India, 23rd<\/sup>\u00a0January, 2018<\/strong>\u00a0\u2014\u00a0Cloud solutions<\/a>,\u00a0cybersecurity<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0analytics<\/a>\u00a0are the top technologies targeted for new and additional spending by public sector CIOs in 2018, while\u00a0data center infrastructure<\/a>\u00a0is the most commonly targeted for cost savings,\u00a0according to a survey from Gartner, Inc.<\/p>\n

Sixteen percent of government CIOs said they plan to increase spending on\u00a0business intelligence<\/a>\u00a0(BI) and analytics (16 percent) and\u00a0data management<\/a>\u00a0(six percent) in 2018 (see Table 2).<\/p>\n

Gartner’s\u00a02018 CIO Agenda Survey<\/a>\u00a0gathered data from 3,160 CIO respondents in 98 countries and across major industries, including 461 government CIOs.Government respondents are segmented into national or federal; state or province (regional); local; and defense and intelligence, to identify trends specific to each tier.<\/p>\n

Digital transformation<\/a>\u00a0is the top-ranked business priority among government CIOs overall, followed by security and governance.<\/p>\n

“Digital transformation revolves around\u00a0data. To be successful, public sector\u00a0CIOs need to focus on expanding their data and analytics capabilities and creating a data-centric culture, by increasing the availability of open data and APIs for internal use and public consumption,”\u00a0said\u00a0Rick Howard<\/a>, research vice president at Gartner.\u00a0“Building out data analytics infrastructure is fundamental to improving government program outcomes and services to citizens.”<\/p>\n

Top Business Priorities<\/strong><\/p>\n

The survey found that\u00a0digital business<\/a>\/digital transformation is more important for government (first priority for 18 percent of respondents) than for all industries (17 percent), with the exception of defense and intelligence agencies (six percent). Private sector companies ranked it second, after growth\/market share. The next three business priorities for government are security, safety and risk (13 percent); governance, compliance and regulations (12 percent); and technology initiatives\/improvements (11 percent).<\/p>\n

“Government CIOs have conflicting priorities \u2014 to bring transformative change to their organizations, while pursuing compliance-oriented priorities,”\u00a0said Mr. Howard.\u00a0“They will need to work constructively with other business leaders to agree how to balance risk and innovation to support digital transformation.”<\/p>\n

Top Technologies to Achieve the Organization’s Mission<\/strong><\/p>\n

In response to the question “Which technology investment is most crucial to achieving your organization\u2019s mission?”\u00a0cloud<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0BI<\/a>\/analytics<\/a>\u00a0were mentioned by 19 percent and 18 percent of government CIOs respectively, followed by infrastructure\/data center at 11 percent (see Table 1). National and federal CIOs are the exception, placing\u00a0customer relationship management<\/a>\u00a0<\/em>as a distant third.<\/p>\n

Table 1. Top Tech to Win<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Rank<\/strong><\/th>\nGovernment Priorities<\/strong><\/th>\n% Respondents<\/strong><\/th>\n<\/tr>\n
1<\/td>\nCloud services\/solutions<\/td>\n19%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2<\/td>\nBI\/analytics<\/td>\n18%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
3<\/td>\nInfrastructure\/data center<\/td>\n11%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
4<\/td>\nDigitalization\/digital marketing<\/td>\n6%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
5<\/td>\nCustomer relationship management<\/td>\n5%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
6<\/td>\nSecurity and risk<\/td>\n5%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
7<\/td>\nNetworking, voice and data communications<\/td>\n4%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
8<\/td>\nLegacy modernization<\/td>\n4%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
9<\/td>\nEnterprise resource planning<\/td>\n4%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
10<\/td>\nMobility\/mobile applications<\/td>\n3%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

Source: Gartner (October 2017)<\/p>\n

Four categories that differ from other sectors:<\/p>\n