A survey conducted by The Economist Intelligence Unit for Mercury sheds light
on how business trends like outsourcing, compliance and new application
environment are impacting corporate IT departments. The results are based on
reponses from 758 IT executives from Europe, Middle East and Asia Pacific.
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Which
of the following activities are most important in ensuring your
applications deliver business value? |
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Most
IT executives in the survey believe it is crucial to get things
right early in the design and testing process. |
A
Successful Tie Up |
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Most
IT professionals feel that transparent services and operations that
could scale to meet future requirements would forge successful
outsourcing partnerships. |
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The
Compliance Factor |
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1
(No Impact) |
2 |
3 |
4 |
5
(Major Impact) |
| Sarbanes-Oxley |
41% |
24% |
15% |
10% |
10% |
Basel
II |
41% |
22% |
16% |
10% |
10% |
International
Accounting Standards (IAS/IFRS) |
20% |
16% |
27% |
21% |
16% |
Data
privacy laws |
12% |
16% |
21% |
24% |
28% |
Anti-money
laundering legislation |
33% |
25% |
21% |
11% |
11% |
County-specific
compliance |
16% |
20% |
30% |
21% |
14% |
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The burden of
compliance falls on some companies more heavily than others. This
explains the respondents' low levels of concern
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