B Is for "Budget"...
The education IT market, especially K-12, is a good news/bad news story. On the one hand, education spending is expected to be up about 4.1 percent overall in 2010 versus 2009, according to Gartner, which puts the total spend at some $63.9 billion. On the other, much education IT spending is still inextricably tied to dismal state and local budget squeezes, with the majority of U.S. states and districts far from out of the woods.
Fortunately for solution providers, most cash-strapped school districts understand all too well the necessity of cost-cutting and protecting students, which means that technology sectors that cover efficiency, management and security are still in significant demand. With a new school year starting and the education buying season a few weeks past, here's a look at the technologies buoying this year's spend, as reported by solution providers and analysts.
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