Cloud and better business management practices are biting into the way federal agencies buy and use their IT, according to the Professional Services Council’s newest research into how federal agencies spend their budgets.
PSC’s 2019 Vision Forecast, released Oct. 29, shows agencies moving away from traditional shared services toward provisioned cloud-enabled IT services. PSC’s annual forecast queries hundreds of federal technology and acquisition officials about how they see technology and spending.
Steve Vetter, one of PSC’s program leads for IT budget and management research for the Vision report, said the research shows traditional shared services, such as those provided under the General Services Administration’s Unified Shared Services Management operations, saw a 17% decline in fiscal 2019.
