Information Technology and Communications research
PRESS RELEASE – Didcot, December 31st, 2021 ITC 2022 – predictions for a better year ITCandor has published its 12th set of annual predictions. These are the 10 ideas for the ITC industry in 2022: Read more »
Encouraged by the accuracy of my last year’s predictions, I’m keen to share with you my vision for the ITC industry in 2020. This is a summary of my predictions: 1. The overall ITC market will grow by 0.8% to $6.849 trillion 2. The Americas will lead regional ITC spending […] Read more »
Overall I expect world spending on all offerings to grow by just 0.8% to $6.849 billion; for the vendors net profits will increase by 0.1% to $730 billion, while their combined headcount will grow by 1.1% to 20.9 million. Navigate our predictions – intro 1 2 3 4 5 6 […] Read more »
On a regional level (see my Figure) I expect the Americas to do best with a 1.6% growth to $2.659 trillion, followed by Asia Pacific (+0.8% to $2.187 trillion); I expect business in EMEA to decline slightly by 0.1% to $2.006 trillion. Americas’ rise in the chart is due in […] Read more »
If we look at the long-term development of the ITC market by broad categories of offerings (see my Figure) we see that both IT Service and Software have been growing faster than Telecom Service and Hardware. In 2020 I expect this trend to continue; the strongest growth will be in […] Read more »
2015 was the last time consumers beat business in terms of spending growth on ITC offerings. I expect this to continue throughout my forecast to 2026. In 2020 businesses will spend 1.9% more, while consumers spend 0.8% less than in 2019. One reason for this is the increasing centralization of […] Read more »
There will continue to be major differences in spending growth on IT Services, which I predict will grow 1.8% overall. Leading the charge will be IaaS and PaaS cloud services, which I predict will grow by 23.9% and 16.6% respectively in 2020. Of the other offerings implementation will remain the […] Read more »
The hardware market will decline by 2.0% overall and only two product types – solid state drives and processors – will grow in 2020 (please note that I have excluded OEM sales from this forecast). Mobile device will be the one on which we spend most, but it will be […] Read more »
Telecom service will have a good year in 2020, with spending growing by 0.7%. Driving the increase will be the wider adoption of 5G services in mobile telecoms – an area that will grow by 2.8% in the year. The strongest spending growth however will be on Enterprise service (3.8% […] Read more »
The software market will grow by 3.0% in 2020 and we will spend more on almost every product type. I expect the strongest spending growth to be on the Software as a Service (SaaS) area, with an increase of 5.1% over the 2019 rate (nevertheless the increase in SaaS spending […] Read more »
The Web remains broken; a handful of malign actors continue to exploit the privacy of hundreds of million of users every day, selling their data to other suppliers, perverting democracy and creating disruption. 2020 will be a year in which some governments begin to take tougher action. In the EU […] Read more »
A self-assessment of the predictions I made for 2019 Read more »
Some thoughts on changes in the value of international currencies against the $US in Q3 2019 Read more »
A look at Google's achievement of 'quantum supremacy' Read more »
Following closely on the heels of the DS8900 launch last month, IBM announced some major storage products (both hardware and software) today at the TechU conference in Prague. My analysis here is based not only on briefing material from Eric Herzog and his team, but also from my visit to […] Read more »
A look at the market for computer peripherals and printers in the year to the end of June 2019 Read more »
Some stats and thoughts about the storage systems market in the first half of 2019 Read more »
A look at the server market in the first half of 2019 from ITCandor's research Read more »
A look at ITCandor's latest findings for the service provider and enterprise network markets to Q2 2019 Read more »
A look at the growing market for infrastructure software as part of both the enterprise IT and software markets. Read more »