{"id":90182,"date":"1999-12-31T00:37:00","date_gmt":"1999-12-30T13:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/smartoffice.com.au\/oz-it-spending-to-hit-78bn-us-dollar-a-drag-on-world-spend\/"},"modified":"1999-12-31T00:37:00","modified_gmt":"1999-12-30T13:37:00","slug":"oz-it-spending-to-hit-78bn-us-dollar-a-drag-on-world-spend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.strixdevelopment.net\/smartoffice\/1999\/12\/31\/oz-it-spending-to-hit-78bn-us-dollar-a-drag-on-world-spend\/","title":{"rendered":"Oz IT Spending To Hit $78bn – US Dollar A Drag On World Spend"},"content":{"rendered":"

SYDNEY – Australian IT spending is forecast to reach almost A$78.1 billion in 2015, an increase of 2.1 percent from 2014, according to estimates from market research firm Gartner.The figure is at odds with a separate and more<\/p>\n

conservative estimate published this week by the Australian Bureau of<\/p>\n

Statistics (CDN, yesterday).<\/p>\n

ABS put the total spending on IT, telecoms and media – a significantly bigger field<\/p>\n

– at $72.98 billion, about $5 billion less than Gartner claims for IT spending<\/p>\n

alone.<\/p>\n

Gartner says IT services is the largest spending category at $28.8 billion,<\/p>\n

while software is the fasting growing area of spending, expected to grow 9.8<\/p>\n

percent in 2015 to reach almost $9.4 billion.<\/p>\n

The figures come from Gartner’s latest quarterly Worldwide IT Spending Forecast<\/p>\n

which it describes as “a pulse-check on the health of the hardware,<\/p>\n

software, IT services and telecom markets worldwide”.<\/p>\n

It says Asia-Pacific IT spending will total US$743 billion in 2015, an increase<\/p>\n

of 0.7 percent from 2014. However, in constant-currency terms, the market is<\/p>\n

projected to grow 4.5 percent in 2015, Gartner says.<\/p>\n

The growth in Australia’s IT spending compares with a 5.5 percent decline in<\/p>\n

worldwide spending, which Garter estimates will total $3.5 trillion. Blame for<\/p>\n

the decline is put on the rising US dollar value.<\/p>\n

In constant-currency terms, however, the global market is projected to grow 2.5<\/p>\n

percent. Gartner’s previous forecast in April, predicted global IT spending to<\/p>\n

decline 1.3 percent in US dollars and grow 3.1 percent in constant currency.<\/p>\n

Communications services will continue to be the largest global IT spending<\/p>\n

segment in 2015, with spending at nearly $1.5 trillion, Gartner says.<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

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