An update on the crisis and the recovery for the digital sector at the 8th breakfast at the French National Assembly
30 Sep 2021
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Things to remember:
- 2020, a year of resilience for the digital sector, with differences depending on the business. Companies hit hard because of their sector exposure (industry, automotive, aeronautics). A rebound in 2021, with strong growth.
- With the first half of the year already encouraging, the digital market is set to grow by +4.8% in 2021, returning to its 2019 size. This is a very significant performance, as the return to pre-crisis market size will take longer for most other sectors.
- The return to growth can be explained in particular by IT spending, which is set to grow significantly, even if this remains conditional on customers’ economic situation: migration to the cloud, as well as improving data usage, are the IT priorities for 54% of digital business customers, who have already launched or will launch projects in this direction in 2021.
5 main growth drivers seem to stand out:
- Digital transformation (+10.8% growth expected in 2021): such as customer experience, digitalization of processes, dematerialization…
- Cloud C&SI – Consulting and Systems Integration (+28.1% growth expected in 2021): verticalized clouds, globalized collaboration, widespread use of containers, modernization and transformation of apps/infra…
- Big Data (+23.4% growth expected in 2021): the collection and use of data to change business models, develop new services…
- IoT (+21.6% growth expected in 2021): the development of new solutions with 5G and edge computing…
- Security (+9.2% growth expected in 2021): with increased investment and outsourcing to counter the upsurge in risks, attacks…