A similar percentage of website operators, however, said that the thought improving website usability was their "key challenge" for this year, according to the Website Spending and Governance Trends report.
This lack of understanding of legacy code is making IT governance impossible for 59 per cent of the 60 companies questioned because of the costs involved in "getting visibility and going through files" on older systems.
ERP buying patterns are also changing with businesses moving away from large, upfront purchases and instead licensing user seats and ERP models incrementally as they deploy a product, according to the report.
The advent of Service-Oriented Architectures (SOA) should be an absolute godsend for public sector IT, where the need to employ 'joined up' services across organisations mirrors the need to apply processes across different parts of the value chain...
These governance tools, which are meant to improve oversight of ongoing application development, are increasingly important as corporate customers rework their back-end systems around an SOA, a design approach that advocates modular, reusable...
These areas include not just finances and pressure on resources but the need to satisfy growing IT demands caused by trends such as service-oriented architectures (SOA), web 2.0 and software-as-a-service (SaaS) architectures, Rold said.