Gartner has slashed
the forecast to $3.8 trillion from $3.9 trillion due to the rising U.S. dollar
as well as a modest reduction in growth expectations for devices, IT services
and telecom services.
Gartner said devices will grow 5.1
percent to $732 billion, data center 1.8 percent to $143 billion, enterprise
software 5.5 percent to $335 billion, IT services 2.5 percent to $981 billion
and telecom services 0.7 percent to $1,638 billion.
The U.S. dollar spending
growth rate on devices (including PCs, ultramobiles, mobile phones, tablets and
printers) for 2015 was decreased by 1.3 percentage points to 5.1 percent.
Gartner has
increased growth forecast for enterprise communications applications and
enterprise network equipment segments, while growth for the servers and
external controller-based storage segments has been lowered. These growth
fluctuations are due to extensions in replacement life cycles and a higher than
previously anticipated switch to cloud-based services.
In the enterprise
software market, more price erosion and vendor consolidation is expected in
2015 because of competition between cloud and on-premises software providers.
CRM prices to drop
In the customer
relationship management (CRM) market, seat prices for segments such as sales
force automation (SFA) are expected to decline by 25 percent through 2018. This
will be caused by incumbent on-premises vendors discounting their cloud
offerings heavily to try and maintain their customer base.
There will also be
increased price competition from cloud offerings in other areas (such as
database management system (DBMS) and application infrastructure and
middleware, albeit at a somewhat slower and weaker pace than for CRM.
Slashes outlook
for IT services
Reductions to
software support services contributed disproportionately to a lower outlook
through 2018, because of lower growth rates expected for enterprise software.
Regionally, short-term growth rates were lowered slightly in Russia and Brazil,
due to declining economic conditions and political uncertainty in both
countries.
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