All of these actions must be balanced against the increased risk to information security, particularly as it relates to cloud computing and mobiletechnologies.
As of the last annual survey, the three-highest rated priorities for investment from 2012 to 2015 included Analytics and Business Intelligence (BI), MobileTechnologies and Cloud Computing.
Enterprise companies in particular showed the massive opportunity that changes in cloud computing, mobile, big data and other technologies have created for startups.
"We continue to raise the bar when it comes to the mobilecomputing experience, " said Mike Lucas, senior vice president of Networked and Technologies and Services Division at Sony Electronics.