State of IT in the
United Kingdom - 2019
Gain insights on the IT landscape
89%
of business managers seem to have a good understanding of IT, highlighting strong alignment between IT teams and theæbusiness as a whole
It has been found that most businesses have between 6-10 software vendors (25%).
The next most common figures were 11-25 (23%), and 26-35 (18%)
Enterprises conduct maintenance activities more
regularly than SMEs & large organisations
PERCENTAGE
Maintenance Activity
PERCENTAGE
Maintenance Activity
72%
of organisations donÍt use a comprehensive vulnerability managementæsolution thatæhelps to detect, assess, prioritise, and patch vulnerabilities as well as mitigate zero-day vulnerabilities in their network
SMEs and Large Organisations
Enterprises
Cost
Lack of understanding
the severity of the problem
Not knowing what
resources to choose
79%
of all respondents are planning to increase their spending on cloud solutions within the next 12 months
Compliance rate
Reasons behind non-compliance (overall)
48% Working with
legacy systems
43% Lack of
awareness
42% Lack of financial
investment
Technologies that will play the biggest role in business operations
AI is more likely to play a bigger
role in enterprises (52%) than
in SMEs & large organisations (35%)
Organisations believe these technologies will help them to primarily
The State of IT in the United Kingdom - 2019 survey covered
400 IT decision makers working in SMEs, large organisations and enterprises
*In percentage