Governments
in India will spend $6.4 billion
US Dollars (USD) on IT products and services in 2014, an increase of
4.3 percent over 2013, according to Gartner, Inc. This forecast includes
spending by government (government is composed of state and regional
government and central government agencies.)
on internal IT (including personnel), hardware, software, external IT
services and telecommunications.
“IT
services, which includes consulting, implementation, IT outsourcing and
business process outsourcing, will be the largest overall spending
category throughout the forecast
period within the government sector,“ said Anurag Gupta, research
director at Gartner. “IT services are expected to grow 3.8 percent in
2013 to reach $1.46 billion USD in 2014, up from $1.37 billion in 2013 –
with the business process outsourcing segment growing
16.3 percent in 2014.”
Internal
services will achieve a growth rate of 9.4 percent in 2014. Internal
services refer to salaries and benefits paid to the information services
staff of an organization.
The information services staff includes all company employees that
plan, develop, implement and maintain information systems. Software will
achieve the highest growth rate within spending categories with 10.3
percent in 2014 to reach $758 million USD in 2014,
up from $687 million in 2013, led by growth in vertical specific
software (software applications that are unique to a vertical industry.
These are stand-alone applications that are not modules or extensions of
horizontal applications).
ICT
service providers will benefit by eGovernment projects and citizen
participation aided by expansion of affordable broadband connectivity
and mobile solutions.
Further
information on government sector IT spending is available in the
Gartner report, Forecast: Enterprise IT Spending for the Government and
Education Markets, Worldwide, 2011-2017,
4Q13 Update. The report is available at http://www.gartner.com/doc/
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