BYOD topped future trends in IT for the coming year as IT managers rated BYOD schemes as their top priority for 2012-13.

Greater user demand and expectations of cost reduction from the employment of BYOD saw the idea top other popular categories, including the likes of cloud computing, PSN and broadband capabilities, in the professional association for public sector ICT management’s (Socitm) latest annual IT Trends report.

The survey saw that cost savings, flexibility and technological and service development were rated as the top concerns by respondents, with BYOD seen as a progressive and simplistic answer to achieving these goals.