Worldwide IT spending is projected to total $3.8 trillion in 2013, a 4.1 per cent increase from 2012 spending of $3.6 trillion, according to the latest forecast by Gartner, Inc. Currency effects are less pronounced this quarter with growth in constant dollars forecast at 4 per cent for 2013.
The Gartner Worldwide IT Spending Forecast is the leading indicator of major technology trends across the hardware, software, IT services and telecom markets. For more than a decade, global IT and business executives have been using these highly anticipated quarterly reports to recognise market opportunities and challenges, and base their critical business decisions on proven methodologies rather than guesswork.
"Although the United States did avoid the fiscal cliff, the subsequent sequestration, compounded by the rise of Cyprus' debt burden, seems to have netted out any benefit, and the fragile business and consumer sentiment throughout much of the world continues," said Richard Gordon, managing vice president at Gartner. "However, the new shocks are expected to be short-lived, and while they may cause some pauses in discretionary spending along the way, strategic IT initiatives will continue."
Worldwide devices spending (which includes PCs, tablets, mobile phones and printers) is forecast to reach $718 billion in 2013, up 7.9 per cent from 2012 (see Table 1). Despite flat spending on PCs and a modest decline in spending on printers, a short-term boost to spending on premium mobile phones has driven an upward revision in the devices sector growth for 2013 from Gartner's previous forecast of 6.3 per cent.
Table 1. Worldwide IT Spending Forecast (Billions of US Dollars)
|
2012 Spending |
2012 Growth (%) |
2013 Spending |
2013 Growth (%) |
2014 Spending |
2014 Growth (%) |
Devices |
665 |
9.0 |
718 |
7.9 |
758 |
5.7 |
Data Centre Systems |
141 |
1.9 |
146 |
3.7 |
152 |
4.0 |
Enterprise Software |
279 |
3.5 |
297 |
6.4 |
316 |
6.7 |
IT Services |
878 |
1.5 |
918 |
4.5 |
963 |
4.9 |
Telecom Services |
1,655 |
-0.4 |
1,688 |
2.0 |
1,728 |
2.4 |
Overall IT |
3,618 |
2.1 |
3,766 |
4.1 |
3,917 |
4.0 |
Source: Gartner (March 2013)
"The global steady growth rates are a calm ocean that hides turbulent currents beneath," said John Lovelock, research vice president at Gartner. "The Nexus of Forces — social, mobile, cloud and information — are reshaping spending patterns across all of the IT sectors that Gartner forecasts. Consumers and businesses will continue to purchase a mix of IT products and services; nothing is going away completely. However, the ratio of this mix is changing dramatically and there are clear winners and losers over the next three to five years, as we see more of a transition from PCs to mobile phones, from servers to storage, from licensed software to cloud, or the shift in voice and data connections from fixed to mobile."16 mei 2024 Praktische en interactieve workshop met Nigel Turner Data-gedreven worden lukt niet door alleen nieuwe technologie en tools aan te schaffen. Het vereist een transformatie van bestaande business modellen, met cultuurverandering, een heront...
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