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Australian Government ICT Trends Report

2015-16

Department of Finance


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Contents

1. Key Trends 4

2. Other Findings 8

3. ICT Spend 9

3.1 Total ICT spend as a proportion of total entity departmental spend 9

3.2 Ongoing and Project ICT spend as a proportion of Total ICT spend 10

3.3 Proportion of ICT spend by Run, Grow and Transform 11

3.4 Operating ICT spend versus capital ICT spend* 12

3.5 ICT spend by service group 13

3.6 Proportion of ICT spend by cost element 14

3.7 Total spend and proportion of ICT spend on outsourced services 15

4. Major Applications 16

4.1 Proportion of major applications spend by Corporate and Business, 2015-16 16

4.2 Proportion of major applications spend by service domain, 2015-16 17

4.3 Proportion of major applications by age group, 2015-16 18

4.4 Average annual spend on major applications by type and age group, 2015-16 19

5. Infrastructure 20

5.1 End user devices – Mix of desktop, laptop, thin client and tablet devices, % of total 20

5.2 End user devices – Proportion of end user devices past planned useful life, 2015-16 21

6. Cloud 22

6.1 Cloud-related contracts*: Total number and value 22

7. ICT FTE 23

7.1 Total ICT FTE 23

7.2 Non-ICT personnel supported per ICT personnel 24

7.3 Internal ICT FTE 25

7.4 Internal ICT FTE vs. APS employees by pay grade 2015-2016 26

7.5 Internal and external ICT FTE by Ongoing and Project 27

7.6 Labour cost of internal and external ICT FTE 28



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8. Notes 29

8.1 Benchmarking objectives and purpose 29

8.2 Benchmarking data source 29

8.3 Applicable qualifications 29

8.4 Glossary 30

8.5 Definitions 30

8.6 Service Domains 31



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1. Key Trends

1. In 2015-16, Australian Government non-Corporate entities spent 10.4 per cent of

total departmental spend on ICT.

2. In 2015-16 total ICT spend increased from $5.7 billion to $6.2 billion.

3. Of total ICT spend, outsourcing to external providers has increased from

20 per cent to 28 per cent since 2011-12, but outsourcing to other entities

remains low at about 2 per cent.

4. The number of cloud contracts1 has increased from seven in 2011-12 to

133 contracts in 2015-16, however contracts started in 2015-16 account for just

under 1 per cent of total ICT spend in that year.

5. Of spend on major applications2, 45 per cent was on Corporate, and 55 per cent

was on Business (including customer-related) applications.

6. 78 per cent of total ICT spend (including projects) was on Run; 13 per cent was

on Grow and nine per cent was on Transform.

7. In 2015-16, spend on ICT personnel was $2.3 billion or 37 per cent of total ICT

spend.

1 Source: AusTender - cloud-related contracts $10,000 and over. 2 Major applications are where total annual support and licence costs exceed $300,000.



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ICT SPEND ICT FTEs

END USER DEVICES NON-ICT PERSONNEL SUPPORTED

PER ICT PERSONNEL

2011-12 2015-16 2011-12 2015-16

2011-12 2015-16 2011-12 2015-16

$5.9B $6.2B

17,800 15,800

TRENDS AT A GLANCE …



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ICT SPEND BY SERVICE GROUP

ICT SPEND BY COST ELEMENT



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CLOUD - RELATED PROJECTS BY SERVICE TYPE, 2015-16*

*Source: AusTender. Graphs contain data on cloud-related contracts grouped by the financial year they were

signed.



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2. Other Findings

For the period of 2011-12 – 2015-16

ICT spend has increased from $5.9 billion to $6.2 billion or by 4.9%.

The proportion of ICT spend to total entity spend increased from 9.3% to 10.4%.

Operating spend grew from 72% to 77% and capital spend decreased from 28% to 23%.

Ongoing ICT spend declined from 67% to 64% while spend on ICT projects increased from 33% to 36%.

In 2015-16, 78% of total ICT spend was on Run (On-going and Run projects); 13% was on Grow and

9% on Transform.

ICT Spend

Since 2011-12 total outsourced services grew from 20% to 28% of total ICT spend.

In 2015-16, ICT services outsourced to other Commonwealth entities averaged at 1.5% of total spend,

but this differs at a cohort level. At average, the Large cohort spends around 0.4% on the services

outsourced to other entities, while the Medium cohort spends around 2.8% and the Small cohort spends

around 9.8%.

In 2015-16

Cloud contract commitments (contracts $10K and more, started in 2015-16) were $58 million or 0.9% of

ICT total spend.

Of spend on major applications, 43% was on Back Office and Support Services; 24% on Customer

Services; 22% on Business Management and Automation Services; and 12% on Digital Asset and

Business Analytical Services.

Spend on Corporate major applications accounted for 45% compared to Business of 55%.

Major applications over 10 years old comprised 44% of major applications total number.

Spend on applications by type was distributed as follows: Custom - 49%; Package - 50%; SaaS - 1%.

Services

For the period of 2011-12 – 2015-16

Number of ICT FTE declined from 17,758 to 15,808 or 11.3% to 10.4% of total entities FTE

Proportion of external ICT FTE grew from 23% to 30%, while proportion of internal FTE decreased from

77% to 70%

On average, labour cost of external FTE increased by 1.2% to $213,906 while labour cost of internal FTE

increased by 16% to $131,530.

Since 2011-12, there has been virtually no change in the distribution of pay-grades across internal ICT

FTE.

Personnel



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3. ICT Spend

3.1 Total ICT spend as a proportion of total entity departmental spend

Note: Previous year’s figures have been indexed to 2015-16 CPI levels.



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3.2 Ongoing and Project ICT spend as a proportion of Total ICT spend



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3.3 Proportion of ICT spend by Run, Grow and Transform

Note: All metrics include both On-going spend and Projects spend identified as “Run” projects.

Source: International: Gartner's ICT Key Metrics Data 2016: Key Industry Measures: Government - National and International Analysis: Muliyear (Published: 14 December

2015), page 18; NSW Government: IT Metrics Report 2014-15, NSW Government, page 9; NZ Government: Administrative and Support Services Benchmarking 2014/15,

page 10



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3.4 Operating ICT spend versus capital ICT spend*

*Sources: NZ – Administrative and Support Services Benchmarking, 2014/15. NSW – ICT Metrics Report, 2014-15. International – Gartner IT Key Metrics Data 2016: Key

Industry Measures: Government – National and International Analysis: Multiyear



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3.5 ICT spend by service group



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3.6 Proportion of ICT spend by cost element

Source: NSW Government: IT Metrics Report 2014-15, NSW Government, page 7; NZ Government: Administrative and Support Services Benchmarking 2014/15, page 11



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3.7 Total spend and proportion of ICT spend on outsourced services



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4. Major Applications3

4.1 Proportion of major applications spend by Corporate and Business, 2015-16

*Source: NSW Government: IT Metrics Report 2014-15, NSW Government, page 8

3 Major applications are where total annual support and licence costs exceed $300,000.



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4.2 Proportion of major applications4 spend by service domain, 2015-16




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4.3 Proportion of major applications5 by age group, 2015-16

Major Business Applications (107) Major Corporate Applications (138)




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4.4 Average annual spend on major applications6 by type and age group, 2015-16




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5. Infrastructure

5.1 End user devices – Mix of desktop, laptop, thin client and tablet devices, % of total



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5.2 End user devices – Proportion of end user devices past planned useful life, 2015-16



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6. Cloud

6.1 Cloud-related contracts*: Total number and value

Value of cloud-related contracts by service type vs

total number of contracts

Average value ($) and average length (months) of

cloud-related contracts

*Source: AusTender.gov.au



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7. ICT FTE

7.1 Total ICT FTE



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: ICT to non-ICT staff ratio

Australian Government

International Government*

7.2 Non-ICT personnel supported per ICT personnel

Note: Calculations performed by the Australian Department of Finance. *International benchmarks source: Gartner IT Key Metrics Data 2016: Key Industry Measures:

Government - National and International Analysis: Multiyear (December 2015).

2015-16 : 1:9

2014-15 : 1:9

: 1:12

2013-14 : 1:9

: 1:12

2012-13 : 1:9

: 1:15

2011-12 : 1:8

: 1:11



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7.3 Internal ICT FTE

Internal ICT FTE, % of total Internal ICT FTE by pay grade, % of total



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7.4 Internal ICT FTE vs. APS employees7 by pay grade 2015-2016

7 The whole-of-APS staffing profile is sourced from the 2015-16 State of Service Report published by the Australian Public Service Commission, and covers non-reporting

agencies.



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7.5 Internal and external ICT FTE by Ongoing and Project



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7.6 Labour cost of internal and external ICT FTE

Note: Labour cost for internal and external ICT FTE is calculated: the total labour expenditure divided by the number of FTE.

*Source: NZ Government: Administrative and Support Services Benchmarking 2014/15, page 17



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8. Notes

8.1 Benchmarking objectives and purpose

The Australian Government introduced the ICT Benchmarking program to facilitate better

practice and rigour in monitoring the efficiency and effectiveness of ICT investments. The

Australian Government ICT Trends Report 2015–16 (the Report) informs government,

industry and the general community about trends in Australian Government ICT use and

expenditure.

The objectives of benchmarking are to:

measure the efficiency of ICT services;

inform policy development; and

support ICT investment decision-making at both entity and whole-of-government levels.

Finance aims to balance the need to change the metrics in response to policy and changing

technology, while maintaining longitudinal trend analysis, and the effort required by entities to

collect data.

Finance welcomes questions or feedback on this report via email at

[email protected].

8.2 Benchmarking data source

All Non-Corporate Commonwealth entities participate in the annual ICT Benchmarking

exercise. Entities provide data about their ICT costs, personnel and infrastructure. Cloud

data is captured from AusTender (https://www.tenders.gov.au/).

8.3 Applicable qualifications

The following qualifications apply to the metrics presented in this Report (unless otherwise

noted):

All ICT spend data excludes administered funds, except for administered funds that are

used for whole-of-government operations.

All spend data are represented in real terms with the 2015-16 financial year base CPI

indexation applied.

Data excludes military ICT spend.

Total spend metrics excludes intra-government spending.

Estimation of non-reporting is quantified by applying a CPI indexation to previous year’s

data.

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Analysis is based on the data presented to Finance as at 7 December 2016. The findings

in this report are subject to the provision of any updated data by entities after the date of

this analysis.

Entities have been provided the opportunity to assure the accuracy of their data.

Small Cohort entities (representing 10% of total ICT spend) are excluded from some

analyses as relevant data are not collected from them.

The report should be considered in conjunction with other efficiency indicators and the

Government’s broader agenda.

8.4 Glossary

Short form Long form

APS Australian Public Service

Capex Capital Spend

FTE Full Time Equivalent

ICT Information and Communication Technology

LAN Local Area Network

Opex Operational Spend

8.5 Definitions

Cost elements

Carriage The costs of providing digital or analogue electronic impulses (including data,

voice or video) over a distance.

External personnel spend External full time equivalent (FTE) personnel are staff who provide services on a

time and materials basis (e.g. "body shopping"). These staff are generally

contractors, but may also be described by agencies as consultants.

Hardware spend Spend on purchasing, leases, maintenance and repair for all physical ICT

equipment, such as servers, PCs, terminals, printers, peripherals, printing

equipment, networking and telecommunications equipment, materials/accessories

and disaster recovery hardware.

Internal personnel spend For all internal FTE (e.g. Australian Public Service staff) involved in ICT activities,

includes all wages and salaries, provisions for staff entitlements and staff on-

costs.

Other spend Spend on occupancy, facilities, utilities and other ICT spend not captured in other

cost element categories.

Services outsourced to

external provider

Spend on services provided under a non-government third-party’s responsibility.



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Services outsourced to

Other agencies

Spend on services provided under the responsibility of other agencies.

Software spend Spend on licences, as well as repair and maintenance for external and standard

software, systems software, and standard office productivity applications as they

apply to each service tower and the total agency level.

8.6 Service Domains

Service Domains

Customer Services Customer Relationship Management; Customer Preferences; and Customer Initiated

Assistance

Business Management and

Process Automation

Services

Tracking and Workflow; Routing and Scheduling; Management of Process; Organisational

Management; Investment Management; and Supply Chain Management

Digital Asset and Business

Analytical Services

Content Management; Document Management; Knowledge Management; Records

Management; Analyses and Statistics; Visualisation; Knowledge Discovery; Business

Intelligence; and Reporting

Support and Back Office

Services

Data Management; Human Resources; Financial Management; Assets/Materials

Management; Development and Integration; Human Capital / Workforce Management;

Security Management; Collaboration; Search; Communication; Systems Management;

and Forms Management

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