The Baseline Top 10 Projects are major technology initiatives ranked by expected spending for the year, based on a survey of 1,440 readers.
| Project |
Average spending* |
Median spending* |
% of respondents |
| 1. Voice-over-IP |
$11,112,000 |
$100,000 |
16.3% |
| 2. Outsourcing |
$8,216,000 |
$750,000 |
6.0% |
| 3. Data networking |
$5,569,000 |
$150,000 |
14.7% |
| 4. Customer relationship management |
$5,177,000 |
$135,000 |
17.3% |
| 5. Collaboration |
$4,255,000 |
$75,000 |
9.5% |
| 6. Supply chain management |
$3,310,000 |
$500,000 |
7.1% |
| 7. Desktop upgrades |
$3,212,000 |
$50,000 |
27.5% |
| 8. Application performance management |
$2,975,000 |
$200,000 |
9.0% |
| 9. Business analytics |
$2,629,000 |
$250,000 |
11.9% |
| 10. Compliance tracking |
$2,479,000 |
$160,000 |
6.7% |
|
* Planned spending of respondents indicating the technology is critical to their organizations. Average spending is the mean average (the total of all responses divided by number of respondents). Median spending is the median average (the midpoint value of all responses).
Source: Baseline Top 10 Projects in 2006 survey
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