Chart: Top 10 Projects in 2006

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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