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itemprop='position'>1</span> </span> </div> <div class='post' itemprop='text'> <p>In our annual <a href="https://www.spiceworks.com/research/state-of-it/">State of IT research study</a> — which covers IT budgets and tech adoption — we track 80+ technology line items that companies spend on. But as we all know, we can’t have everything we want… especially when there’s not enough money for every item on the wish list.</p> <p>According to our data, even though 66% of companies plan to increase budgets in 2024 (vs. only 4% planning on a decrease), many still feel their overall budgets are insufficient.</p> <p>In a recent <a href="https://community.spiceworks.com/t/963666">Spiceworks Community poll</a> , more than half (54%) of Spiceworks Community members said their company doesn’t invest enough in technology. And even in organizations that are adequately funded, tradeoffs are often made because money isn’t infinite.</p> <p>We want to know: In your organization, <strong>when you’re faced with tough decisions about where to prioritize spending, which areas tend to get cut first?</strong></p> <p>Also, are the things getting cut “nice-to-have” items, or are they essential? For context, our research tracks categories across hardware, software, IT labor, cloud services, managed services, telecom, facilities, and internal services.</p> <p>We ask because we want to better understand the challenges you’re facing, so we can surface relevant research insights to help you do your job better. Case in point: We’ve just conducted an in-depth analysis of our 2024 State of IT budgets data (revealing your peers’ spending behaviors to benchmark against) and we want to share our findings with you.</p> <p>Join our <a href="https://spiceworks.registration.goldcast.io/events/965d07e5-edd5-4ad6-8b63-6fadd90f599f?AffiliateData=Community&AffiliateData=com_post">webinar on January 31st</a> @ 3PM Eastern for a deep dive into the choices and tradeoffs organizations make across IT spending categories, and see how you compare. We’re going beyond simplistic averages, getting deep into spending on percentile curves, ranging from the 5th (lowest) to the 95th (highest) with the median in between.</p> <p><strong>Have questions about prioritizing IT budgets?</strong></p> <p>Before then, share your questions on IT budgets in the comments. We want to know what’s on your mind, so we can address your concerns during the webinar Q&A and in future Community posts.</p> </div> <div itemprop="interactionStatistic" itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/InteractionCounter"> <meta itemprop="interactionType" content="http://schema.org/LikeAction"/> <meta itemprop="userInteractionCount" content="32" /> <span class='post-likes'>32 Spice ups</span> </div> </div> <div id='post_2' itemprop='comment' itemscope itemtype='http://schema.org/Comment' class='topic-body crawler-post'> <div class='crawler-post-meta'> <span class="creator" itemprop="author" itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/Person"> <a itemprop="url" href='https://community.spiceworks.com/u/Mike400'><span itemprop='name'>Mike400</span></a> (Mike400) </span> <span class="crawler-post-infos"> <time itemprop='datePublished' datetime='2024-01-25T15:44:39Z' class='post-time'> January 25, 2024, 3:44pm </time> <meta itemprop='dateModified' content='2024-01-25T15:44:39Z'> <span itemprop='position'>2</span> </span> </div> <div class='post' itemprop='text'> <p>Training.</p> </div> <div itemprop="interactionStatistic" itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/InteractionCounter"> <meta itemprop="interactionType" content="http://schema.org/LikeAction"/> <meta itemprop="userInteractionCount" content="14" /> <span class='post-likes'>14 Spice ups</span> </div> </div> <div id='post_3' itemprop='comment' itemscope itemtype='http://schema.org/Comment' class='topic-body crawler-post'> <div class='crawler-post-meta'> <span class="creator" itemprop="author" itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/Person"> <a itemprop="url" href='https://community.spiceworks.com/u/markvadams'><span itemprop='name'>markvadams</span></a> (markvadams) </span> <span class="crawler-post-infos"> <time itemprop='datePublished' datetime='2024-01-25T15:49:25Z' class='post-time'> January 25, 2024, 3:49pm </time> <meta itemprop='dateModified' content='2024-01-25T15:49:25Z'> <span itemprop='position'>3</span> </span> </div> <div class='post' itemprop='text'> <p>Projects. Lots and lots of projects.</p> </div> <div itemprop="interactionStatistic" itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/InteractionCounter"> <meta itemprop="interactionType" content="http://schema.org/LikeAction"/> <meta itemprop="userInteractionCount" content="2" /> <span class='post-likes'>2 Spice ups</span> </div> </div> <div id='post_4' itemprop='comment' itemscope itemtype='http://schema.org/Comment' class='topic-body crawler-post'> <div class='crawler-post-meta'> <span class="creator" itemprop="author" itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/Person"> <a itemprop="url" href='https://community.spiceworks.com/u/c-t'><span itemprop='name'>c-t</span></a> (C-T) </span> <span class="crawler-post-infos"> <time itemprop='datePublished' datetime='2024-01-25T16:44:46Z' class='post-time'> January 25, 2024, 4:44pm </time> <meta itemprop='dateModified' content='2024-01-25T16:44:46Z'> <span itemprop='position'>4</span> </span> </div> <div class='post' itemprop='text'> <p>Training.</p> </div> <div itemprop="interactionStatistic" itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/InteractionCounter"> <meta itemprop="interactionType" content="http://schema.org/LikeAction"/> <meta itemprop="userInteractionCount" content="1" /> <span class='post-likes'>1 Spice up</span> </div> </div> <div id='post_5' itemprop='comment' itemscope itemtype='http://schema.org/Comment' class='topic-body crawler-post'> <div class='crawler-post-meta'> <span class="creator" itemprop="author" itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/Person"> <a itemprop="url" href='https://community.spiceworks.com/u/hulksmash72'><span itemprop='name'>hulksmash72</span></a> </span> <span class="crawler-post-infos"> <time itemprop='datePublished' datetime='2024-01-25T17:01:51Z' class='post-time'> January 25, 2024, 5:01pm </time> <meta itemprop='dateModified' content='2024-01-25T17:01:51Z'> <span itemprop='position'>5</span> </span> </div> <div class='post' itemprop='text'> <p>People.</p> </div> <div itemprop="interactionStatistic" itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/InteractionCounter"> <meta itemprop="interactionType" content="http://schema.org/LikeAction"/> <meta itemprop="userInteractionCount" content="1" /> <span class='post-likes'>1 Spice up</span> </div> </div> <div id='post_6' itemprop='comment' itemscope itemtype='http://schema.org/Comment' class='topic-body crawler-post'> <div class='crawler-post-meta'> <span class="creator" itemprop="author" itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/Person"> <a itemprop="url" href='https://community.spiceworks.com/u/jay-garrick'><span itemprop='name'>jay-garrick</span></a> (Jay_Garrick) </span> <span class="crawler-post-infos"> <time itemprop='datePublished' datetime='2024-01-25T17:26:24Z' class='post-time'> January 25, 2024, 5:26pm </time> <meta itemprop='dateModified' content='2024-01-25T17:26:24Z'> <span itemprop='position'>6</span> </span> </div> <div class='post' itemprop='text'> <p>I think for us, it is a matter of just not buying on a standard cycle and let the existing hardware run another year and plan further out for replacement.</p> </div> <div itemprop="interactionStatistic" itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/InteractionCounter"> <meta itemprop="interactionType" content="http://schema.org/LikeAction"/> <meta itemprop="userInteractionCount" content="5" /> <span class='post-likes'>5 Spice ups</span> </div> </div> <div id='post_7' itemprop='comment' itemscope itemtype='http://schema.org/Comment' class='topic-body crawler-post'> <div class='crawler-post-meta'> <span class="creator" itemprop="author" itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/Person"> <a itemprop="url" href='https://community.spiceworks.com/u/kgehrts'><span itemprop='name'>kgehrts</span></a> (Kyle3748) </span> <span class="crawler-post-infos"> <time itemprop='datePublished' datetime='2024-01-25T17:40:10Z' class='post-time'> January 25, 2024, 5:40pm </time> <meta itemprop='dateModified' content='2024-01-25T17:40:10Z'> <span itemprop='position'>7</span> </span> </div> <div class='post' itemprop='text'> <p>Upgrading. Band aids are applied instead replacing antiquated things. This can affect device rotation (if you are lucky enough to get to do that in the first place). These things have a cost snowball though. Spending more and more time chasing problems of old things that are breaking or have bugs. Eventually you get so behind with this that it becomes a massive project to modernize.</p> <p>When I came into my current work network in 2014 they had standardized on Win 7(32) because most machines were P4 machines with only 40GB hard drives. We spent all our time cleaning up drive space and piecing these clunkers together. I convinced the only department with money to rotate out their aging machines, took those old core 2 machines (ewaste to them) and swapped out the P4s in other departments. This stopped the bleeding so those departments could start to catch up in their device rotation. This plan has worked in the long run but the win11 processor requirement feels a little bit similar.</p> </div> <div itemprop="interactionStatistic" itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/InteractionCounter"> <meta itemprop="interactionType" content="http://schema.org/LikeAction"/> <meta itemprop="userInteractionCount" content="6" /> <span class='post-likes'>6 Spice ups</span> </div> </div> <div id='post_8' itemprop='comment' itemscope itemtype='http://schema.org/Comment' class='topic-body crawler-post'> <div class='crawler-post-meta'> <span class="creator" itemprop="author" itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/Person"> <a itemprop="url" href='https://community.spiceworks.com/u/jeffnoel'><span itemprop='name'>jeffnoel</span></a> (ghijkmnop) </span> <span class="crawler-post-infos"> <time itemprop='datePublished' datetime='2024-01-25T17:44:07Z' class='post-time'> January 25, 2024, 5:44pm </time> <meta itemprop='dateModified' content='2024-01-25T17:44:07Z'> <span itemprop='position'>8</span> </span> </div> <div class='post' itemprop='text'> <p>What I’ve seen in the past</p> <p>Projects</p> <p>Equipment refreshes</p> <p>Staff</p> </div> <div itemprop="interactionStatistic" itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/InteractionCounter"> <meta itemprop="interactionType" content="http://schema.org/LikeAction"/> <meta itemprop="userInteractionCount" content="5" /> <span class='post-likes'>5 Spice ups</span> </div> </div> <div id='post_9' itemprop='comment' itemscope itemtype='http://schema.org/Comment' class='topic-body crawler-post'> <div class='crawler-post-meta'> <span class="creator" itemprop="author" itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/Person"> <a itemprop="url" href='https://community.spiceworks.com/u/mikesomers8781'><span itemprop='name'>mikesomers8781</span></a> (Mike1961) </span> <span class="crawler-post-infos"> <time itemprop='datePublished' datetime='2024-01-25T18:12:30Z' class='post-time'> January 25, 2024, 6:12pm </time> <meta itemprop='dateModified' content='2024-01-25T18:12:30Z'> <span itemprop='position'>9</span> </span> </div> <div class='post' itemprop='text'> <p>New equipment, training, staff.</p> </div> <div itemprop="interactionStatistic" itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/InteractionCounter"> <meta itemprop="interactionType" content="http://schema.org/LikeAction"/> <meta itemprop="userInteractionCount" content="1" /> <span class='post-likes'>1 Spice up</span> </div> </div> <div id='post_10' itemprop='comment' itemscope itemtype='http://schema.org/Comment' class='topic-body crawler-post'> <div class='crawler-post-meta'> <span class="creator" itemprop="author" itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/Person"> <a itemprop="url" href='https://community.spiceworks.com/u/tb33t'><span itemprop='name'>tb33t</span></a> (TB33T) </span> <span class="crawler-post-infos"> <time itemprop='datePublished' datetime='2024-01-25T18:58:47Z' class='post-time'> January 25, 2024, 6:58pm </time> <meta itemprop='dateModified' content='2024-01-25T18:58:47Z'> <span itemprop='position'>10</span> </span> </div> <div class='post' itemprop='text'> <p>Any future project get put on hold. It happened to me this past year and it’s drug into this year. So I’ve got work to do but no budget to complete it with. Annoying to me but it gives me time to focus on other systems to clean them up and get them up to speed.</p> </div> <div itemprop="interactionStatistic" itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/InteractionCounter"> <meta itemprop="interactionType" content="http://schema.org/LikeAction"/> <meta itemprop="userInteractionCount" content="2" /> <span class='post-likes'>2 Spice ups</span> </div> </div> <div id='post_11' itemprop='comment' itemscope itemtype='http://schema.org/Comment' class='topic-body crawler-post'> <div class='crawler-post-meta'> <span class="creator" itemprop="author" itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/Person"> <a itemprop="url" href='https://community.spiceworks.com/u/Kenny8416'><span itemprop='name'>Kenny8416</span></a> (Kenny8416) </span> <span class="crawler-post-infos"> <time itemprop='datePublished' datetime='2024-01-26T11:08:24Z' class='post-time'> January 26, 2024, 11:08am </time> <meta itemprop='dateModified' content='2024-01-26T11:08:24Z'> <span itemprop='position'>11</span> </span> </div> <div class='post' itemprop='text'> <p>Training, projects, upgrades, pay rises. Not necessarily in that order.</p> </div> <div itemprop="interactionStatistic" itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/InteractionCounter"> <meta itemprop="interactionType" content="http://schema.org/LikeAction"/> <meta itemprop="userInteractionCount" content="1" /> <span class='post-likes'>1 Spice up</span> </div> </div> <div id='post_12' itemprop='comment' itemscope itemtype='http://schema.org/Comment' class='topic-body crawler-post'> <div class='crawler-post-meta'> <span class="creator" itemprop="author" itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/Person"> <a itemprop="url" href='https://community.spiceworks.com/u/user341236'><span itemprop='name'>user341236</span></a> (user341236) </span> <span class="crawler-post-infos"> <time itemprop='datePublished' datetime='2024-01-26T11:56:47Z' class='post-time'> January 26, 2024, 11:56am </time> <meta itemprop='dateModified' content='2024-01-26T11:56:47Z'> <span itemprop='position'>12</span> </span> </div> <div class='post' itemprop='text'> <p>Budget?? We don’t have a budget. Mentality here is one and done. It’s a struggle every single year unless there is a grant available then maybe we’ll get what we need that way.</p> </div> <div itemprop="interactionStatistic" itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/InteractionCounter"> <meta itemprop="interactionType" content="http://schema.org/LikeAction"/> <meta itemprop="userInteractionCount" content="2" /> <span class='post-likes'>2 Spice ups</span> </div> </div> <div id='post_13' itemprop='comment' itemscope itemtype='http://schema.org/Comment' class='topic-body crawler-post'> <div class='crawler-post-meta'> <span class="creator" itemprop="author" itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/Person"> <a itemprop="url" href='https://community.spiceworks.com/u/general-tsao'><span itemprop='name'>general-tsao</span></a> (General Tsao) </span> <span class="crawler-post-infos"> <time itemprop='datePublished' datetime='2024-01-26T11:59:33Z' class='post-time'> January 26, 2024, 11:59am </time> <meta itemprop='dateModified' content='2024-01-26T11:59:33Z'> <span itemprop='position'>13</span> </span> </div> <div class='post' itemprop='text'> <p>I’ve never been in this situation, but I’m a miser, even with other peoples money, so I always think they spend too much and on things that we don’t really need…I could save the company half a million dollars a year (and not just on technology/IT but also in other areas where there are wasted dollars spent) if given the opportunity, and no one would suffer from lack of funds.</p> <p>We could pay a LOT more money to employees, and lower turnover and INCREASE profits if we just started to look at where the money is going.</p> </div> <div itemprop="interactionStatistic" itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/InteractionCounter"> <meta itemprop="interactionType" content="http://schema.org/LikeAction"/> <meta itemprop="userInteractionCount" content="1" /> <span class='post-likes'>1 Spice up</span> </div> </div> <div id='post_14' itemprop='comment' itemscope itemtype='http://schema.org/Comment' class='topic-body crawler-post'> <div class='crawler-post-meta'> <span class="creator" itemprop="author" itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/Person"> <a itemprop="url" href='https://community.spiceworks.com/u/bikerpete'><span itemprop='name'>bikerpete</span></a> (Bikerpete) </span> <span class="crawler-post-infos"> <time itemprop='datePublished' datetime='2024-01-26T13:21:03Z' class='post-time'> January 26, 2024, 1:21pm </time> <meta itemprop='dateModified' content='2024-01-26T13:21:03Z'> <span itemprop='position'>14</span> </span> </div> <div class='post' itemprop='text'> <p>Training, equipment, licenses, maintenance/service contracts, staff and/or pay rises, low risk projects (delay or cancel), travel expenses</p> </div> <div itemprop="interactionStatistic" itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/InteractionCounter"> <meta itemprop="interactionType" content="http://schema.org/LikeAction"/> <meta itemprop="userInteractionCount" content="1" /> <span class='post-likes'>1 Spice up</span> </div> </div> <div id='post_15' itemprop='comment' itemscope itemtype='http://schema.org/Comment' class='topic-body crawler-post'> <div class='crawler-post-meta'> <span class="creator" itemprop="author" itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/Person"> <a itemprop="url" href='https://community.spiceworks.com/u/joematuscak'><span itemprop='name'>joematuscak</span></a> (JoeMatuscak) </span> <span class="crawler-post-infos"> <time itemprop='datePublished' datetime='2024-01-26T14:07:19Z' class='post-time'> January 26, 2024, 2:07pm </time> <meta itemprop='dateModified' content='2024-01-26T14:07:19Z'> <span itemprop='position'>15</span> </span> </div> <div class='post' itemprop='text'> <p>Yeah, training and anything that isn’t an immediate fire drill.</p> </div> <div itemprop="interactionStatistic" itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/InteractionCounter"> <meta itemprop="interactionType" content="http://schema.org/LikeAction"/> <meta itemprop="userInteractionCount" content="1" /> <span class='post-likes'>1 Spice up</span> </div> </div> <div id='post_16' itemprop='comment' itemscope itemtype='http://schema.org/Comment' class='topic-body crawler-post'> <div class='crawler-post-meta'> <span class="creator" itemprop="author" itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/Person"> <a itemprop="url" href='https://community.spiceworks.com/u/mountainbiker'><span itemprop='name'>mountainbiker</span></a> (mountainbiker) </span> <span class="crawler-post-infos"> <time itemprop='datePublished' datetime='2024-01-26T20:22:38Z' class='post-time'> January 26, 2024, 8:22pm </time> <meta itemprop='dateModified' content='2024-01-26T20:22:38Z'> <span itemprop='position'>16</span> </span> </div> <div class='post' itemprop='text'> <p>I’ve been in “break fix mode” a few times over the years…, most things (other than raise and bonus) were cut until the next year budget cycle.</p> </div> <div itemprop="interactionStatistic" itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/InteractionCounter"> <meta itemprop="interactionType" content="http://schema.org/LikeAction"/> <meta itemprop="userInteractionCount" content="1" /> <span class='post-likes'>1 Spice up</span> </div> </div> <div id='post_17' itemprop='comment' itemscope itemtype='http://schema.org/Comment' class='topic-body crawler-post'> <div class='crawler-post-meta'> <span class="creator" itemprop="author" itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/Person"> <a itemprop="url" href='https://community.spiceworks.com/u/netcacique'><span itemprop='name'>netcacique</span></a> (netcacique) </span> <span class="crawler-post-infos"> <time itemprop='datePublished' datetime='2024-01-27T15:35:29Z' class='post-time'> January 27, 2024, 3:35pm </time> <meta itemprop='dateModified' content='2024-01-27T15:35:29Z'> <span itemprop='position'>17</span> </span> </div> <div class='post' itemprop='text'> <p>Nice to have</p> <p>Delay on refreshes.</p> <p>New implementations</p> </div> <div itemprop="interactionStatistic" itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/InteractionCounter"> <meta itemprop="interactionType" content="http://schema.org/LikeAction"/> <meta itemprop="userInteractionCount" content="1" /> <span class='post-likes'>1 Spice up</span> </div> </div> <div id='post_18' itemprop='comment' itemscope itemtype='http://schema.org/Comment' class='topic-body crawler-post'> <div class='crawler-post-meta'> <span class="creator" itemprop="author" itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/Person"> <a itemprop="url" href='https://community.spiceworks.com/u/DoctorDNS'><span itemprop='name'>DoctorDNS</span></a> (DoctorDNS) </span> <span class="crawler-post-infos"> <time itemprop='datePublished' datetime='2024-01-27T15:47:39Z' class='post-time'> January 27, 2024, 3:47pm </time> <meta itemprop='dateModified' content='2024-01-27T15:47:39Z'> <span itemprop='position'>18</span> </span> </div> <div class='post' itemprop='text'> <p>Training - it’s an easy thing to cut (and often the last to come back once things improve.,</p> </div> <div itemprop="interactionStatistic" itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/InteractionCounter"> <meta itemprop="interactionType" content="http://schema.org/LikeAction"/> <meta itemprop="userInteractionCount" content="0" /> <span class='post-likes'></span> </div> </div> <div id='post_19' itemprop='comment' itemscope itemtype='http://schema.org/Comment' class='topic-body crawler-post'> <div class='crawler-post-meta'> <span class="creator" itemprop="author" itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/Person"> <a itemprop="url" href='https://community.spiceworks.com/u/randomparts'><span itemprop='name'>randomparts</span></a> (Random Parts) </span> <span class="crawler-post-infos"> <time itemprop='datePublished' datetime='2024-01-29T13:04:02Z' class='post-time'> January 29, 2024, 1:04pm </time> <meta itemprop='dateModified' content='2024-01-29T13:04:02Z'> <span itemprop='position'>19</span> </span> </div> <div class='post' itemprop='text'> <p>When I was in a public library it was always put off equipment. Everyone was on the same rotation too so all the computers got upgraded in the same year. Sometimes the backend servers got replaced with more used equipment instead of new servers. 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