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*Some CIOs expect to reduce spending on vendors such as Oracle to allocate more funds to GenAI investments."

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Citi CIO Survey:

Microsoft remains the leading generative AI partner that CIOs are considering, significantly ahead of Amazon and Google.

Regarding funding for GenAI projects, 71% of CIOs anticipate securing new or additional funding (up slightly from 70% last quarter), while 29% believe the funding will come from existing resources. Some CIOs expect to reduce spending on vendors such as Oracle to allocate more funds to GenAI investments.

Organizations are projected to increase their GenAI spending by an average of 13% in the near term. However, it is still "early to identify clear winners," with the median percentage of use cases in the testing phase between 31-40% and in the production phase between 11-20%.

The survey reveals that "46% of respondents have seen GenAI projects negatively impact traditional IT budgets, with back-office and consulting projects as the top affected categories, and the median impact on traditional IT budgets between 7-9%."

Overall, Citi's 2Q CIO survey showed mixed results, with a slight deterioration in the IT budget environment, primarily due to Europe. However, US near-term IT budget growth expectations improved notably to 3% this quarter, up from 2.2% in the March quarter survey, and surpassing the historical average of 2.7%.

Cybersecurity remains the top investment priority for CIOs, followed by Data modernization/GenAI, though its importance has diminished compared to March, Citi noted.

This “may be a slightly negative read-through for MSFT, ESTC, SNOW, MDB, INFA, CFLT and TDC,” analysts highlighted.

Digital Transformation Projects also remain a top-three priority but have fallen in importance since March, potentially tied to enterprises refining their generative AI strategies. Robotics/Automation remains the fourth priority
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$MSFT $AMZN $GOOGL $ORCL and other software names

Citi CIO Survey:

Microsoft remains the leading generative AI partner that CIOs are considering, significantly ahead of Amazon and Google.

Regarding funding for GenAI projects, 71% of CIOs anticipate securing new or additional funding (up slightly from 70% last quarter), while 29% believe the funding will come from existing resources. Some CIOs expect to reduce spending on vendors such as Oracle to allocate more funds to GenAI investments.

Organizations are projected to increase their GenAI spending by an average of 13% in the near term. However, it is still "early to identify clear winners," with the median percentage of use cases in the testing phase between 31-40% and in the production phase between 11-20%.

The survey reveals that "46% of respondents have seen GenAI projects negatively impact traditional IT budgets, with back-office and consulting projects as the top affected categories, and the median impact on traditional IT budgets between 7-9%."

Overall, Citi's 2Q CIO survey showed mixed results, with a slight deterioration in the IT budget environment, primarily due to Europe. However, US near-term IT budget growth expectations improved notably to 3% this quarter, up from 2.2% in the March quarter survey, and surpassing the historical average of 2.7%.

Cybersecurity remains the top investment priority for CIOs, followed by Data modernization/GenAI, though its importance has diminished compared to March, Citi noted.

This “may be a slightly negative read-through for MSFT, ESTC, SNOW, MDB, INFA, CFLT and TDC,” analysts highlighted.

Digital Transformation Projects also remain a top-three priority but have fallen in importance since March, potentially tied to enterprises refining their generative AI strategies. Robotics/Automation remains the fourth priority
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Sell-side CIO Survey Roundup:

Earlier this week Jefferies CIO survey (n=40) found Azure with a "slight preference" over AWS for overall cloud spend.

MS found Microsoft to be biggest beneficiary of GenAI spend "by far" vs Amazon and Google. MS also found public cloud workloads increasing at approx 20% cagr next 2 years.

Today Citi CIO survey finds Microsoft is "significantly ahead of Amazon and Google" for GenAI projects.
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