SIM – Lawrence Hecht

spending on custom/bespoke software increases without putting pressure on IT budgets

January 9, 2020February 14, 2025Published in The New Stack Update, Snippet of The New Stack article

Bespoke Software Development Spending Pops.

Efficiencies achieved because of SaaS and open-source-reliant infrastructure have been redirected to innovative software projects.

December 2, 2016February 14, 2025Published in The New Stack Update

Contrarian Look at Software Spending

Over the past months, we’ve seen several blogs saying “cloud is eating software” instead of “software is eating the world.” There’s now data to back up that claim. Looking at the 2017 SIM IT Trends Study, software as a percentage of the entire IT budget may have peaked at […]

November 23, 2016February 14, 2025Published in The New Stack Update, Snippet of The New Stack article

The Software Budget’s Appetite Kept in Check by the Bottom Line

Application support consumes more internal labor spend than application development on average, despite generally higher salaries for application developers than for support personnel.