Monday, September 22, 2008

IT Services: Russia Excels. Part 2

According to a recent study by French analytical company Pierre Audoin Consultants (PAC), the growth rate of Russian IT services market is a bit lower compared to IDC calculations and it wasn’t half as high as in 2006 and increased by 18% only (vs 47.2% according to IDC). However, PAC’s estimation of IT services market volume equals to that by IDC: approximately 3 billion euro or 4.4 billion dollars.

Nevertheless, PAC admits that even with 18% growth rate in 2007 Russian IT services market is the fastest growing in the world. Its growth surpasses IT services market growth rate in Western (6.6% in 2007) and even Eastern Europe (15% in 2007).

Local integrators who participated in IDC survey don’t question its correctness. “We share the opinion that our market shows robust growth”, assured Sergey Matsotsky, Chairman of the Board and General Director of the IBS Company. "Outrunning growth of this segment [IT services] is obvious”, confirmed his opinion Andrey Ageev, Technoserve A/S marketing department manager. He claims that the market will continue to grow at the rate of 20% annually in 3-5 years to come, especially taking into account underdevelopment of IT services sector in the Russian Federation compared to Western IT markets.

Sergey Matsotsky and CNews confirmed the possibility of IT services market growth: “IT services comprise more than 50% in the mature market, whereas lion's share of sales in emerging markets is hardware. This world experience shows that Russian IT services market has “the whole life ahead of it”. Although growth rate can decrease a bit in the short-term prospects due to current global financial fluctuations. Still, in the long-term plan the market can develop quite dynamically at the rate of 25-30% annually. Obviously, Russian economy demand for effective IT which secures competitiveness will increase”.

IDC forecasts that in 2009 IT services in Russia will reach 8 billion dollars and this segment will comprise 26%.

Source: CNews

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