IT spending in South Africa will total\nR303.46 billion in 2019, a 3.9% increase from 2018, according to Gartner.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cSouth Africa is still behind in terms\nof overall IT spending and continues to have a technology debt to pay off,\u201d\nsaid David Lovelock, Research Vice President at Gartner.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cHowever, by achieving 3.9% growth in\n2019, South Africa will be one of the fastest-growing countries in the world \u2014\nranked fourth globally.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Consumer spending was once the IT\nspending highlight in South Africa, driven by adoption of mobile phones, but no\nlonger. Gartner expects consumer spending on devices such as PCs, tablets and\nmobile phones to decline by 2020, and to keep contracting through 2023. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cSaturation in the PC, mobile phone and\ntablet device markets has limited the number of new buyers,\u201d added Lovelock.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cAnd spending on mobile phone\nreplacements and upgrades won\u2019t be enough to sustain current spending levels.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Spending on devices in South Africa is\nprojected to total R46 billion in 2019, up 3% from 2018. This growth rate has\nmore than halved, year over year, which shows that South Africa has largely\nmoved past the stage of acquiring personal devices and is now more concerned\nwith using them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
South Africa: IT Spending Forecast\n(Millions of Rand)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Due to rounding, figures may not add up\nprecisely to the totals shown.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Source: Gartner (July 2019)<\/p>\n\n\n\n Adoption of Cloud Computing will keep rising\nin South Africa<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Software spending in South Africa will\nreach R32 billion in 2019, a 11.4% increase from 2018. <\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cCloud computing is a new reality in\nSouth Africa,\u201d said Lovelock. <\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cSouth African organisations are\nconsuming significant amounts of cloud services, including software-as-a-service, platform-as-a-service\nand infrastructure-as-a-service. <\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cCIOs in South Africa have started\nadopting cloud-first strategies. With both Microsoft and Amazon planning to\nopen local hyperscale data centres in 2020, adoption and use of the cloud will\nonly increase in South Africa.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" IT spending in South Africa will total R303.46 billion in 2019, a 3.9% increase from 2018, according to Gartner. \u201cSouth Africa is still behind in terms of overall IT spending and continues to have a technology debt to pay off,\u201d said David Lovelock, Research Vice President at Gartner. \u201cHowever, by achieving 3.9% growth in 2019, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":27890,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[182,46,298,103,19,54,183,9059,13,262],"tags":[872,811,294,10524,10525,10523,10526,376,10527,429,1489,176,184,3861,10545,1155,453,185],"class_list":["post-27889","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cloud","category-data-centres","category-main-story-newsletter","category-mobile","category-regional-news","category-research","category-software","category-south-africa","category-top-stories","category-used","tag-amazon","tag-cios","tag-cloud-computing","tag-communication-services","tag-data-centre-services","tag-david-lovelock","tag-devices","tag-gartner","tag-hyperscale-data-centre","tag-infrastructure-as-a-service","tag-it","tag-microsoft","tag-pc","tag-platform-as-a-service","tag-software","tag-software-as-a-service","tag-south-africa","tag-tablet"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27889","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27889"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27889\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28052,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27889\/revisions\/28052"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27890"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n \n <\/td> \n 2018
\n Spending<\/strong>\n <\/td>\n 2018
\n Growth (%)<\/strong>\n <\/td>\n 2019
\n Spending<\/strong>\n <\/td>\n 2019
\n Growth (%)<\/strong>\n <\/td>\n 2020 Spending<\/strong>\n <\/td> \n 2020
\n Growth (%)<\/strong>\n <\/td><\/tr> Communication Services <\/td> \n 129,837\n <\/td> \n 3.2\n <\/td> \n 132,852\n <\/td> \n 2.3\n <\/td> \n 133,572\n <\/td> \n 0.5\n <\/td><\/tr> Data Centre Systems <\/td> \n 9,053\n <\/td> \n 16.1\n <\/td> \n 8,598\n <\/td> \n -5.0\n <\/td> \n 8,898\n <\/td> \n 3.5\n <\/td><\/tr> \n Devices\n <\/td> \n 44,615\n <\/td> \n 7.5\n <\/td> \n 45,966\n <\/td> \n 3.0\n <\/td> \n 40,328\n <\/td> \n -12.3\n <\/td><\/tr> \n IT Services\n <\/td> \n 79,685\n <\/td> \n 4.9\n <\/td> \n 83,897\n <\/td> \n 5.3\n <\/td> \n 87,996\n <\/td> \n 4.9\n <\/td><\/tr> \n Software\n <\/td> \n 28,849\n <\/td> \n 12.9\n <\/td> \n 32,147\n <\/td> \n 11.4\n <\/td> \n 35,850\n <\/td> \n 11.5\n <\/td><\/tr> \n Total<\/strong>\n <\/td> \n 292,040<\/strong>\n <\/td> \n 5.6\n <\/td> \n 303,460<\/strong>\n <\/td> \n 3.9\n <\/td> \n 306,644<\/strong>\n <\/td> \n 1.0\n <\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table>\n\n\n\n