07 Jan Heads of IT&C forecast increases of 5%, 10% or even 20% over 2009
The views of the local IT & C industry in 2010 remain quite divergent. While software and services players predict a return to growth this year, telecom players are being held back. IT & C retail will remain impacted by the difficult economic situation, and in the on-line segment there may be increases, but also new acquisitions of big players.
Players in the local software market are expecting a 5% to 10% return on segment growth from 2010, depending on the evolution of the economy as a whole. “We are optimistic about the growth of the economy and the IT industry, we believe the IT industry will grow 10 times faster than the economy, which will mean either 5% and 0.5% to 10% and 1% respectively” for “Financiarul” Calin Tatomir, general manager at Microsoft Romania. “Many of the uncertainties related to the political and economic context have been clarified with the conclusion of the elections, the appointment of the Government, the establishment of the 2010 budget,” explains Tatomir. “We welcome IT & C portfolio continuity and public position to support IT’s role in resuming economic growth,” he added. Microsoft’s manager thinks among the factors behind the resumption of PC sales through the emergence of new models (touch screen etc.), adoption of Windows 7, cloud computing, virtualization. (…)
Marius Tulea, General Manager of Crescendo, also share the opinion that an increase in the software market will be seen from the second half of the year, the end of the third quarter or the beginning of the fourth quarter. “We expect the software market to returns on growth in the second half of the year; the end of the year could register a zero or no more than 5% -10% increase compared to 2009. We expect the signs of the economic recovery to be visible in the second half of the year, causing companies to return to normal business thinking, focusing on growth and investment”, Says Marius Tulea. It states that, overall, the market will keep the downward trend in the first half of this year. “We are expecting a return of the business software market only in S2 / T4 due to the need for companies to streamline and / or reorganize their business, especially in Business Intelligence, CRM Customer Relationship Management), even ERP (Enterprise Relationship Management),” said Tulea, adding that this recovery is under the auspices of international markets and local political movements. (…)
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