A recent survey of more than 6,000 senior-level business leaders and software development professionals found that 60 percent of respondents reported increases in 2009 IT development budgets, despite the uncertain global economic climate. In the survey sponsored by SoftServe, Inc., provider of software consulting, development, testing and lifecycle services to IT decision-makers, 26 percent indicated that budgets had increased in excess of 10 percent over 2008 expenditures.
Beyond a majority increase in 2009 development budgets, other notable survey findings include:
- When queried on third-party interaction and resources, 38 percent of organizations indicated the use of some type of software development outsourcing. While outsourcers varied widely by location, two-thirds (67 percent) of companies using offshore outsourcing did so in India, while Ukraine emerged neck-and-neck with China and other Eastern European companies as one of the top development locations to watch.
