SA IT Market Overview Sizing & Forecast 2019 Update

The IT Market Overview provides a strategic view of the IT market in South Africa as a whole. It covers the three major segments of the IT market, hardware, packaged software and services.

Objectives of the IT Market Overview

The IT market is defined broadly to include all primary sources of revenues earned by local hardware, software and services vendors. These include:

Computer hardware market
Packaged software market
IT services market

Research methodology

Local primary in-depth interviews with top vendors in the IT equipment and services market.
End-user analysis: data from user interviews and surveys mapped onto vendor analysis for consistency and to establish baselines for market projections.
Secondary source analysis: from independent studies, government, trade figures and general economic information for interpreting the local market and driving the forecasts.

Market segmentation

The IT Market Overview offers a profile of the IT market in South Africa. Segmentation for IT spending analysis and forecasts includes:

Computer hardware which is further segmented by server, desktop, notebook and workstations

Packaged software with breakdowns for systems infrastructure software, application development and deployment and applications

IT services segmented by service categories:

IS consulting
Business consulting
System integration
Custom application development
Cloud enablement
Maintain, support, upgrade
Training
Managed services
Aggregation
Full outsource
Hosting
Cloud services

Key questions answered

The IT Market Overview covers the three major segments of the IT market, hardware, packaged software and services, with a view to answering the following key questions:

What is the size of the SA IT market, segmented by each technology sector?
What are the business expectations within the SA IT market?
Which are the key business drivers and inhibitors within the SA IT market?

Objectives

Methodology

Notes on market sizing and forecasting

Market Drivers

Cloud Computing
Automation
Cybersecurity
Digital Transformation
Hyper Convergence

Trends

Economic Weakness
Emerging Technology Adoption
IoT
Artificial Intelligence
Software Defined Everything
5G

Market Inhibitors

Skills
Trust
Market Conditions
Legacy

General IT Market overview, 2018 with 2019-2023 forecast

IT market overview, 2017 and 2018 (Rb)
IT market revenue growth (%) 2018 – 2023 (Rb)
Percentage of total IT spend & Y/Y growth forecasts

Hardware

Drivers

Hardware Market Drivers – PCs
Hardware Market Drivers – Network
Hardware Market Drivers – Servers
Hardware Market Drivers – Storage

Inhibitors

Hardware Market Inhibitors – PC and Network
Hardware Market Inhibitors – Servers and Storage

Hardware Trends

Hardware Market Trends – PC and Servers
Hardware Market Trends – Network
Hardware Market Trends – Storage
Hardware Revenue Growth 2018 – 2023 (Rb)
Hardware Y/Y % Growth 2018 – 2023 (Rb)

Software

Software Market Drivers
Software Market Inhibitors
Software Market Trends
Software Market revenue growth (%) 2018 – 2023 (Rb)
Software Y/Y growth forecasts

IT Services

IT Services Market Drivers
IT Services Market Inhibitors
IT Services market revenue growth (%) 2018 – 2023 (Rm)
IT services market revenue growth (%) 2018 – 2023 (Rm)
IT services market Y/Y growth
IT services Y/Y growth

Executive Summary

Research team

This study is led by Clinton Jacobs (Senior IT Sector Analyst). The BMI-T team has extensive sector experience in this field, having conducted multiple studies related to both the IT landscape in South Africa and the nature of business customers and related IT markets and industry developments.

Deliverables and format

A workbook (in Excel format)
A presentation (in PowerPoint format)
Clients are also entitled to a presentation/workshop in Johannesburg (may be combined with other topics at BMI-T’s discretion).

Further information

For further information and details on how to subscribe to this research please contact Anita Mathews on 011 540 8000 or anita@bmit.africa