Telecom Lead India: End users’ top technology
priorities in 2012 will include cloud computing and mobile technologies.
Emerging markets will generate $1.22 trillion in IT spending in 2012,
representing 31 percent of the worldwide total.
Seventeen percent of global IT spending will be generated by
BRIMC in 2012, representing $658 billion.
IT spending in emerging Asia/Pacific countries is expected
to reach $496 billion in IT spending in 2012. Emerging Asia/Pacific professional
markets will reach 42 percent of the total IT spending in the region, while
consumer IT spending will reach $288 billion in 2012.
The emerging regions include Asia/Pacific (which exclude
Japan, Australia, New Zealand, Singapore, South Korea, Hong Kong and Taiwan),
Latin America, the Middle East and Africa (minus mature Israel), and Central
and Eastern Europe.
“While professional and consumer market opportunities
can be found in many emerging markets, Brazil, Russia, India, Mexico and China
(BRIMC) continue to perform particularly strongly, and this is where over half
of emerging markets’ IT spending will be concentrated in 2012,” said Luis
Anavitarte, research vice president and head of emerging markets research at
Gartner.
Gartner said Latin America will generate $326 billion in IT
spending in 2012, of which professional markets will represent 48.4 percent of
the total IT market in reaching $157.7 billion. Consumer markets in Latin
America will reach $168 billion.
IT spending in the Middle East and Africa will reach $244
billion in 2012, with Saudi Arabia, Turkey and South Africa accounting for 35
percent of this revenue. The Middle East and Africa professional markets
represent 38 percent of the total IT market, and will reach $93 billion.
Central and Eastern Europe will generate $158 billion in IT
spending. Professional markets will represent 48.2 percent of this, totaling
$76 billion, while consumer market is predicted to reach $81.7 billion.
Russia’s share of IT spending in 2012 is expected to be nearly 45 percent,
followed by Poland with 11.8 percent, the Czech Republic with 7.7 percent and
Hungary with 3.7 percent.
