GLiNTECH has just released its findings report on their annual Future of Software Development in Australia Survey, which surveyed over a 100 respondents working in IT from a variety of sectors. The survey aimed to gain perspective on the thoughts of software development teams around Australia with questions aimed at current and planned development, development expenditure and future trends.
 
Australian business outlook appears positive for 2012 despite an overall decrease of business peripheral spending since the global financial downturn. 70% of respondents are expecting IT expenditure to be stable or increase in 2012.  More than three-quarters of respondents have also maintained that IT development direction was set at a local level.
 
“Contrary to what is seen in the global market, from our experience here at GLiNTECH, we have seen a steady uptake of projects locally in the second half of 2011” says GLiNTECH Managing Director, Dimitri Spyridopoulos.
Other noteworthy highlights from the survey showed;
·       Semantic Web, Linked Data and HTML 5 as new emerging trends for 2012, even though most did not associate these with Web 3.0
·       Better communication between IT and business was indicated as a key concern by 67% of respondents
·       Cloud and mobile remained key areas for growth as they had been in 2010 and
·       22% of respondents saw an increase in teams working remotely and software teams being increasingly distributed in 2012.
To download a full copy of the survey, please follow this link: http://goo.gl/erfvv