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Software Products Planning to Purchase or Upgrade
(next 12 months)
• Three-quarters (74.1%)of the subscribers indicated that their organization is planning to purchase or upgrade software porducts in the next 12months.• In total, the subscriber’s organization has an average of $156,200 budgeted for software expenditures in the next 12 months.
 
                                                                               
CAD/CAE 43.2%
Graphics/Design Tools 22.8%
MCAD/3D CAD 21.5%
Test/Measurement 20.2%
Networking 16.4%
Finite Element Analysis 15.1%
Data Acquisition/Visual Instrumentation 14.4%
Simulation 11.5%
Visualization/Modeling 11.5%
Utilities10.6%
Statistical 8.9%
Rapid Prototyping/CAM 8.0%
Motion Control/Process Control 7.8%
Computational Fluid Dynamics 6.9%
Numeric/Symbolic Math 6.9%
Scientific Spreadsheets 5.8%
EDM/PDM/Image Processing4.7%
Curve Fitting 3.3%
Scientific Word Processing 3.1%
PLM 2.7%

 

Computer Products Planning to Purchase or Upgrade
(next 12 months)
 
• Almost eight out of ten (78.3%) subscribers indicated that their organization is planning to purchase or upgrade computer products in the next 12 months.

• Average amount budgeted for this expenditure is $152,000.

• One-quarter (25.5%) of the subscribers recommend, specify or purchase network servers.

                       
PC Workstation 58.8%
Laptop/Notebook/Portable48.5%
Multi-Processor Pentium Workstation15.3%
Industrial PC 12.8%
Unix Workstation 8.2%
Single Board Computers 6.6%

Hardware Products Planning to Purchase or Upgrade
(next 12 months)

• More than three-quarters (77.4%) of all subscribers stated that their organization was planning to purchase or upgrade hardware products in the next 12 months.

• The average amount the organization has budgeted for hardware expenditures in the next 12 months is $658,900

                                                   
Monitors 55.8%
Printers 43.3%
CPU Upgrades 36.8%
Storage/Disk Drives 33.4%
Graphics Cards 28.9%
Test/Measurement Devices 25.5%
Networking 24.8%
Data Acquisition 21.0%
UPS 16.9%
Input Devices 15.6%
Scanners (wide format) 14.7%
Plotters/Large Format Printers 14.4%
Control Boards 8.1%
 

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