Headline Expenditure Projections
Computer hardware sales: US$5.4bn in 2012 to US$6.1bn in 2013, +12% in US dollar terms. Forecastin US dollar terms downwardly revised due to analyst adjustment, but migrations to Windows 8should provide a boost in 2013.
Software sales: US$2.4bn in 2012 to US$2.6bn in 2013, +9% in US dollar terms. Forecast in US dollarterms downwardly revised due to analyst modification, but vendors have reported growing enterpriseand local government interest in Software-as-a-Service (SaaS).
IT services sales: US$4.6bn in 2012 to US$4.7bn in 2013, +14% in US dollar terms. Forecast in USdollar terms downwardly revised due to analyst modification, but cloud computing will driveutilisation of outsourcing and managed services.
Risk/Reward Ratings: South Africa's score was 47.1 out of 100.0. South Africa ranked eighth in ourlatest MEA RRR table.
Key Trends & Developments
The South African Department of Education has announced a target of rolling out laptops to allschool children in the country by 2014. The government is looking at various ways to achievethis, including the use of portable mobile computer labs for schools where there is noinfrastructure. Following a strong recovery in PC shipments in 2011, the market should remainon an upwards trajectory.
Business intelligence is one growth area as South African organisations look to improveinformation visibility and utilisation. Vendors have reported that spending is increasing inorganisations where business intelligence platforms are already entrenched. Strong sectors forbusiness intelligence solutions include retail.
Major infrastructure and transport projects should continue to boost IT services spending growthduring the forecast period. Spending still depends heavily on government programmes and thegovernment will remain the largest spending IT services vertical, followed by financial servicesand telecoms. Cloud computing is becoming viable in South Africa due to improved and lowercostbandwidth?availability.
Source: http://lgict.org.za/blog/south-africa-information-technology-report-q1-2013
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