Brexit wird sich in Westeuropa am stärksten auswirken.
Laut der Prognose des IT-Research und Beratungsunternehmens Gartner werden die IT-Ausgaben in Europa, im Mittleren Osten und in Afrika (EMEA) 2017 insgesamt eine Summe von 1,25 Billionen US-Dollar erreichen – dies entspricht einem Wachstum von 1,9 Prozent im Vergleich zum Vorjahr. Die IT-Ausgaben der einzelnen EMEA-Regionen werden im Jahr 2016 fast unverändert bleiben – und Jahr für Jahr geringfügig um 0,6 Prozent ansteigen.
»Die Ausgaben im Bereich Digialisierung steigen in EMEA ständig an und wir werden einige führende Unternehmen erleben, die ihre IT-Kernsysteme erneuern und die Ausgaben für Software und insbesondere Services als Teil ihrer digitalen Transformation erhöhen werden«, so John-David Lovelock, Research Vice President bei Gartner.
Gartner Forecasts IT Spending in EMEA Will Grow 1.9 Per Cent in 2017
Brexit to Have Most Impact in Western Europe
Analysts Provide IT Spending Outlook for EMEA and Western Europe During Gartner Symposium/ITxpo 2016, 6-10 November, in Barcelona
Barcelona, Spain, 7th November 2016 — Gartner, Inc. forecasts that IT spending in Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA) will total $1.25 trillion in 2017, a 1.9 per cent increase from 2016. IT spending across all the constituent regions of EMEA will be almost flat in 2016, increasing 0.6 per cent year on year.
This week, Gartner analysts are discussing the next evolution of digital business and IT investments needed to drive digital to the core at Gartner Symposium/ITxpo in Barcelona.
Across all the countries of EMEA, spending on devices is expected to decline and to be the main contributor to an overall slowdown in IT spending in 2016. The segments that will contribute most to overall IT spending growth in 2017 are software and IT services (see Table 1).
»Spending on digitalisation is on the rise in EMEA, and we’ll witness some leading organisations modernise their core IT systems and increase spend on software and services in particular, as part of their digital transformation,« said John-David Lovelock, research vice president at Gartner.
Spending on data centre systems, particularly servers, would normally grow when spending on software increases, but with the growing adoption of software as a service (SaaS) and other cloud offerings, data centre spending will be more muted than usual.
Table 1. EMEA IT Spending Forecast (Millions of Constant US Dollars)
| 2016 Spending | 2016 Growth ( %) | 2017 Spending | 2017 Growth ( %) | |
| Data Centre Systems | 58,163 | 1.6 | 58,953 | 1.4 |
| Software | 112,244 | 6.0 | 119,842 | 6.8 |
| Devices | 206,238 | -3.7 | 204,660 | -0.8 |
| IT Services | 327,676 | 3.8 | 341,133 | 4.1 |
| Communications Services | 526,782 | -0.9 | 530,397 | 0.7 |
| Overall IT | 1,231,103 | 0.6 | 1,254,986 | 1.9 |
Source: Gartner (November 2016)
Brexit to Have Most Impact in Western Europe
The Brexit effect that is most pronounced is the decline in the pound sterling. Its decline has caused the prices within the UK for many IT products to increase in 2016.
»When the prices of goods increase, consumers and businesses shift their buying patterns, and the simple reaction is to buy less well-featured products,« said Mr Lovelock. »But now that there are viable cloud offerings in the UK, organisations are also able to shift their spending into different areas — to buy computing as a service, instead of servers. These shifts will play out further in 2017. »Banks in France and Germany have increased their spending on software and consulting in 2016 to attract, or at least be ready for, any banking activity shifting away from London.«
IT Spending in Western Europe Will Pick Up in 2017
In Western Europe, IT spending in constant US dollars is forecast to total $803.5 billion in 2017, a 1.6 per cent increase from 2016 (see Table 2). IT spending levels in Western Europe are likely to be essentially flat in 2016, with growth of 0.2 per cent year over year.
Table 2. Western Europe IT Spending Forecast (Millions of Constant US Dollars)
| 2016 Spending | 2016 Growth ( %) | 2017 Spending | 2017 Growth ( %) | |
| Data Centre Systems | 42,274 | 1.8 | 42,679 | 1.0 |
| Software | 91,952 | 5.3 | 97,641 | 6.2 |
| Devices | 113,701 | -5.5 | 110,899 | -2.5 |
| IT Services | 292,265 | 3.8 | 304,281 | 4.1 |
| Communications Services | 250,521 | -3.1 | 248,021 | -1.0 |
| Overall IT | 790,712 | 0.2 | 803,521 | 1.6 |
Source: Gartner (November 2016)
Devices and Communications Services Spend to Fall in Western Europe
While IT services will remain the largest segment in terms of spending, and will continue to grow in 2017 (by 4.1 per cent), the devices and communications services segments are likely to decline for at least the next three years.
»Mobile phone adoption is nearly at a saturation point — almost all users who want a new phone already have one,« said Mr Lovelock. »The mobile phone market has therefore shifted to a replacement cycle, and mobile phone prices have reached a plateau. This compounds the problems of communications service providers, who are having to compete more directly on price, by providing more services for the same amount and offering discounts on existing plans.«
Gartner forecasts the PC market in Western Europe to total 47.8 million units in 2016 and to decrease by 3 per cent in 2017. Gartner expects PC prices in the UK to increase by less than 10 per cent in 2017 as vendors look to »de-feature« their PCs to keep prices down and take advantage of the single-digit decline in PC component costs in 2016.
Smartphone sales will total 147 million units in 2016, a 1 per cent increase from last year. Gartner projects smartphone sales to increase 4.7 per cent in 2017. Gartner analysts also expect that in 2017 more players (mainly from China) will aggressively target the »affordable” premium range, as well as improve basic smartphones, helping overall smartphone replacement volumes in 2017.
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