IT services grew 6% in 2005

The revenue of the global information technology (IT) service sector reached $ 624.4 billion in 2005, an increase of 6% compared to 2004 figures.

This is the new statistics published by Gartner.

" Typically, the market share of outsourcing services is an important growth area for the global IT services market. But this trend has changed in 2005, " Kathryn Hale, vice president of research at Gartner, said. " In 2005, software and service support projects achieved higher growth rates than the average growth of the IT services market. This has never happened since 2000. "

IBM continues to be the leader in the global IT services market but the growth rate is lower than the average growth rate of the whole market. Only Accenture and CSC are the companies named in the Top 6, having a higher growth rate than the global average.

Health organizations have the highest investment costs for IT services in 2005. However, this is still considered a relatively small number in the market panorama. Investment costs of the health sector increased from US $ 17.9 billion in 2004 to US $ 19.4 billion in 2005, an increase of 8.7%. Meanwhile, the market share of financial services continued to bring the most revenue to the IT service industry in the past year with investment costs amounting to USD 141.3 billion in 2005, an increase of 7% compared to 2004. .

Revenue from IT services in Eastern Europe and Africa reached 223 billion USD in 2005, an increase of 5.8% compared to 2004.

" Project services, including consulting, development and integration, achieved a good growth rate in 2005, achieving a 5.6% growth compared to 2004 ," said Robert De Souza, expert. Gartner, said.

The list of the top 5 service providers remains unchanged from the previous year but the position has been disordered. IBM is firmly in the No. 1 position even though its market share has decreased slightly. HP lost second place to Accenture - Accenture previously ranked No. 4 - and its market share increased by 3.7% in 2005. The fourth place now belongs to T-System.

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