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IT Budgets: SaaS vs AI vs Custom Builds

The reallocation of enterprise software spend across SaaS, AI-native tools, and custom builds.

Prepared for Meridian Software Partners Delivered 11 July 2026 Version v2.0 · frozen n=10 · fielded 27 May 2026

This is your completed study, delivered as a small set of files you can keep, forward, print, and cite. Everything is version-stamped and frozen — the numbers won't move under you — and every figure in the documents is reproducible from the data pack. Start with whichever file matches what you need to do next.

The files

PDF

Send upstairs

Executive Summary

One page for the board, the CFO, or leadership — the decision and why, with the risk called out. This is the version you forward up.

PDF · 1 page · 81 KB

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PDF

Work from this

Decision Brief

Two pages: the decision and the disagreement up front, then the evidence — the split, the procurement-gate matrix, how the panel divides, and the method. The document you decide and defend from.

PDF · 2 pages · 276 KB

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CSV

Read every answer

Full responses

Every one of the 70 responses, verbatim and untouched, one row per respondent × question — the complete record behind the findings. Or browse and search it online in the audit layer.

CSV · 70 responses · 170 KB

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CSV

Rebuild any number

Data pack

The respondent-level stance data behind every chart, with a plain-text codebook. Drop it into your own model and reproduce anything in the brief.

CSV + codebook · <1 KB

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PPTX

Lift into your deck

Charts

Editable, native PowerPoint charts and tables — recolour them, re-cut them, and paste them straight into your own presentation. No screenshots.

PowerPoint · 5 slides · 42 KB

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Prefer everything at once? All five files, plus the codebook, in one archive.

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How to use the bundle

Decide from the Decision Brief. It leads with the call and the disagreement — where the panel splits and how hard each side holds it — so you can see the risk before the summary.
Send the Executive Summary upstairs. It's the one page written for the room above you; the numbers match the brief to the digit.
Verify from the Data pack. If you want to rebuild a chart or pressure-test a number, it's all in the CSV with a codebook.
Present from the Charts. Lift the editable charts into your own deck rather than screenshotting the PDF.

Questions on the findings? Reply to the email this link came from, or ask your FishDog analyst for a short walkthrough or a custom cut. The study is synthetic and directional (n=10) — the full methodology and limitations are stated on every document, and the underlying study is at fishdog-report-lab.pages.dev/it-budget.

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