IT spending will increase in Switzerland in 2022, according to the latest predictions from Gartner. According to the firm, this market should grow by nearly 7% between 2021 and 2022 (forecasts in constant currencies and taking into account communications services).
Sustained growth of IT services in Switzerland
All segments of the Swiss market will see growth, the strongest in consulting and IT services. Over the course of the year, Swiss CIOs will increase their use of this type of service more than their colleagues around the world. Spending on the IT services segment in Switzerland will indeed jump by 11%, once morest 7% globally. After a strong surge in 2021, the Swiss device segment will experience more moderate growth, but all the same much more sustained than on a global scale (6% once morest 2%).
Globally, IT spending will also increase across all segments in 2022. Investments will particularly benefit software vendors. Hardware vendors will benefit the least.
According to Gartner analyst John-David Lovelock, the rise of enterprise application software, infrastructure software and managed services in the near and long term demonstrates that the digital transformation trend is not a trend of one or two years, but that it is rather systemic and long-term.
The war in Ukraine would have no impact
According to the analyst, the war in Ukraine has no direct impact on global IT spending. “Price and wage inflation, coupled with talent shortages and other delivery uncertainties, are expected to further weigh on CIOs’ plans in 2022,” the analyst said. Some IT spending was put on hold in early 2022 due to the Omicron variant and subsequent waves, but it is expected to wind down in the near term.
