2023 CIO Agenda Insights for Midsize Enterprises

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What are the top enterprise priorities?

18% 17%
24%
Cost Optimization Digital
Growth
and Efficiency Transformation

Which technologies Where will investments

are most likely to be go in 2023?
implemented by 2025? 69% of respondents
will spend more in
this area in 2023
Artificial Intelligence (AI)/
92% Cybersecurity/ compared with 2022.
Machine Learning (ML)
Information
Distributed Cloud 82% Security
58%
Secure Access
77% Business
Service Edge (SASE)
Intelligence/
Multiexperience Data Analytics
73%
Development Platform

Responsible AI 72% 42%

Application
MLOps 68% Modernization
42%
5G 67% Cloud
Platforms
Edge Computing 61% 40%
Integration
Digital Twin 56% Technologies/
APIs/API
Blockchain 45% Architecture

For which technologies will What are the

more CIOs increase funding challenges while
in 2023 compared to 2022? developing a vision
for digital change?
2022 2023

p4pp Integrating the digital

Cyber/Information 65% 69% vision with existing
Security enterprise-level strategies

Application
Modernization p12pp
42% Agreeing on a shared
vision throughout different
Business Continuity 30% p6pp
29% parts of the enterprise
Management 23% 25%
Hyperautomation 19% p7pp 23%
16% Ensuring that business
Connectivity leaders understand the
possibilities

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always driving to value. treated as such. relies on alignment to
business strategy.

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Source: 2023 Gartner CIO and Technology Executive Survey
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