According to the latest CDW IT Monitor, IT decision-makers at large businesses are optimistic about IT budgets, as 51 percent anticipate seeing budget increases in the next six months. Forty percent will spend on mostly new assets (up eight percentage points), and 50 percent are considering large investments (up two percentage points).

Additional large business highlights from the latest CDW IT Monitor include:

• Large business hardware procurement expectations gained three percentage points since October to reach 95 percent. Thirty-six percent of IT decision-makers at large businesses expect to spend on mostly new assets.
• Increasing by six percentage points, 94 percent of IT decision-makers at large businesses anticipate spending on software in the next six months. Fifty-four percent will spend on mostly new assets, also up six percentage points since October.
• Fifty-six percent of large business IT decision-makers anticipate making IT solutions investments in the next six months, up two percentage points since October.