Like most market researchers I’m both liberal and international in my outlook and can’t hide my unhappiness about the UK’s decision to leave the EU. It’s too late in Britain to wish the referendum at the end of June had gone the other way, but we need to consider how market […] Read more »
Red Bull Racing’s Malaysian win and its Milton Keynes IT
Formula 1 has much to show commercial IT how to run future systems. Read more »
The post-Brexit UK ITC market
For anyone attending my presentation at IP Expo and/or interested in what’s going to happen in the UK IT and Communications market, this is a pdf of my presentation. Let me know if you have any comments or questions. [email-download download_id=”11894″ contact_form_id=”11897″] Read more »
Brexit – selling UK IT assets by the pound
Source: ITCandor from OANDA historical data Part of my methodology each quarter is to look at currency movements of international currency against the $US. My Figure shows the movement of the average value of each local currency in Q2 2016 compared with their rates in Q2 2015. Those on the […] Read more »
The booming EU – and UK! – data center market
ITCandor launches it's new 'data center impressions' service for EU business planners Read more »
download ITCandor’s ‘EU data center impressions’ flyer
ITCandor has a continuous information service for executives of suppliers and user organisations in Europe. Each quarter you’ll receive 3 reports which size, discuss and analyse the martin in Europe. We are happy to customise our findings for other countries and regions on request. Read more »
Could Brexit increase the taxation of the ITC industry’s £35b profits?
The IT and Communications industry is highly profitable for successful companies, with the smallest and largest enjoying the greatest profitability. In the UK we spent £146B on its products which created profits before tax of around £35B in 2015: an extra 10% of that collected by UK government could help out the […] Read more »
Brexit – bad for the UK’s ITC market, says ITCandor survey
The results of ITCandor's Brexit survey Read more »
Brexit – good or bad? ITCandor research survey
Please complete my survey - it should help with looking at the effect of the UK leaving the EU Read more »
Brexit – the consequences for ITC markets
Some ideas on the UK leaving the EU Read more »
Cloud Computing in EMEA reaches €29.9B in 2015
Some stats on cloud computing in EMEA with market shares and forecasts to 2020 Read more »
PC Market down 3.8% in 2015
A look at developments in the PC market in 2015 Read more »
Printer sales fell 14.5%, peripherals by 12.1% in 2015
A look at printer and peripheral markets in 2015 Read more »
Mobile devices – 3% revenue growth, 6% unit decline in 2015
Some sizing of the mobile device market in 2015 Read more »
Apple – running out of new customers
Apple's revenues will decline in 2016, but it remain at the head of the industry Read more »
2016 prediction 2 – EMEA and the Americas outgrow Asia Pacific – at least in constant dollars
The slackness of the market will also be apparent in region spending growth. In particular: The Americas will outperform the others, growing by 0.5% to $2.3T; vendors will need to offer innovative products to persuade these sophisticate users to buy yet more technology EMEA will grow by 0.3% to $1.7T; […] Read more »
2016 prediction 3 – The USA grows faster than other American countries
The USA is by far the largest country market worldwide and within the Americas: in 2016 it will spend $1.7T – 28% of the world total. Growth will be 1.2% – better than other countries in the region. We need the US to grow in order to make up for […] Read more »
2016 prediction 4 – Turkey top, Russia bottom of EMEA growth (again!)
EMEA is a region full of country markets. Germany is the largest, followed by the UK. For the second year running I expect the strongest growth (3.8%) to be in Turkey and the steepest decline (-10.7%) to be in Russia. The lifting of sanctions on Iran will lead to growth […] Read more »
2016 prediction 5 – Chinese spending declines in the lacklustre Asia Pacific market
Japan and China will be the two largest IT and communications markets in Asia Pacific. For the first time in a number of years I’m not predicting that the region will outgrow the Americas and EMEA: in fact I expect we’ll see a decline in spending in most countries. Even […] Read more »
Enterprise networks up 3.7% in Q3 2015
My latest on sizes and shares in the network markets Read more »