Gartner’s quarterly forecast update – April 2019
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Gartner has published its quarterly IT spending forecast update, projecting Australia’s IT spending to be almost AU$94 billion, up 3% from last year.
The analyst firm also projects Australian spending to increase to AU$105.7 billion by 2022.
In Gartner’s projections, IT Services remains as Australia’s biggest IT spending category from 2018-22, with spending for this category expected to increase by 4.4% to AU$34.4 billion in 2019.
Software is the fastest-growing category in the 2018-22 period, and is expected to grow to AU$1 billion in 2019, an increase of 10%, as more companies shift from “traditional (non-cloud) offerings to new, cloud-based alternatives”. Gartner projects software spending in Australia to reach AU$21.2 billion by 2022.
Meanwhile, Australian spending on datacentre systems is expected to drop 2.7% year on year to AU$3 billion, Gartner said. The research firm attributes the projected decline to lower average selling prices (ASPs) in the server market. Growth in devices is also projected to drop 3.5% in 2019, amounting to AU$12 billion in spending for this category.