Capgemini, a leading provider of consulting, technology and outsourcing services, and Sogeti, its local professional services division, have released a new report detailing new outsourcing trends and developments.

The fifth World Quality Report, published in conjunction with HP, reveals that application Testing and Quality Assurance (QA) now accounts for almost a quarter of IT spend, as many organizations undergo the process of digital transformation and reliable software applications become increasingly critical to their operations and reputation.

As the importance of application quality increases, average spending on QA as a percentage of total IT budget has grown from 18 percent in 2012 to 23 percent in 2013.

“With the research findings showing that almost a quarter of IT budgets are now being allocated to Testing and QA activities, measuring the ROI to the business based on financial as well as IT operational metrics is becoming ever more important,” said Matt Morgan, vice president, Product Marketing, Software, HP.

In addition to the development of QA spending, the report revealed that the UK is among the leaders in adopting cloud technologies.

On average, an organisation has 22% of its applications migrated or hosted in the Cloud. However the report revealed that a large majority of cloud initiatives are taking place among smaller, more agile companies, while larger corporations with massive in-house infrastructure investments and great security concerns are seen to be much slower to realise the benefits of the Cloud.

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