Annual Technology Survey.

• Position: Brief Article

FEI's fourth annual technology survey, a joint project between the Committee on Finance and Information Technology and Computer Sciences Corp., has identified several trends in corporate IT spending. Raw data for the survey comes from questionnaires sent to FEI members.

The first trend is that members' companies are scaling back the priority and the financial commitments for e-commerce. The economic slow-down has compelled members to place "renewed emphasis on identifying the appropriate level of technology investments, prioritizing those investments, increasing the availability of decision support information and leveraging IT to reduce costs." With that, the survey found, members plan to engage...