Digital transformation will represent 50% of ICT investments by 2025 in Portugal
Digital transformation will represent 50% of all investment in information and communication technologies (ICT) in Portugal by the end of 2025, estimates consultancy IDC. The investments will go through areas such as cybersecurity, a cloud, big data and artificial intelligence.
In 2021, “began to expand a new social and economic paradigm”, Gabriel Coimbra, Group Vice President of IDC and director of IDC in Portugal, noting that, “in Portugal, the IT market [tecnologias da informação] grew by almost 2%” in the last year. “In addition to more than 50% of GDP [produto interno bruto] already being influenced by digital, first time in history we actually checked once. That is, even with one of the biggest drops in GDP in history [quase 10%], the IT market continues to grow. In 2020, despite the drop of almost 5% of GDP, the IT market grew by almost 3%, worldwide.
In this line of growth, the 5% direct from IDC indicates that the average investments in digital transformation will accelerate to an annual growth of 16, up to 20% direct 25. This value exceeds the previous forecast of growth of 15.4% for the period of 2019-2024 and allows the consultancy to state that half of total ICT investments are aimed at digital transformation.
Cybersecurity will be a priority in 2022
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The data, which will be released on Thursday during the Future Scape 2022 event, point out that the areas of cloud, mobile, big data and social as well as artificial intelligence, augmented reality and virtual reality, robotics and cybersecurity will be the focus. of investments. Among these is an area of cybersecurity that stands out.
IDC predicts that investment in cybersecurity will exceed 200 million euros in 2022, in Portugal. Cyber resilience will be at the top of the companies to follow as Portuguese companies a global trend. By 24, IDC predicts that 60% of top companies will increase cybersecurity spending by 20%. The reinforcement in this area “will generate an additional investment of 5.9 million euros in security, in 2024”, according to the data sent to the publication.
The consultant says that small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) are beginning to appear on hackers’ radars, estimating that 33% suffer cyberattacks. Ransomware attacks alone “increased more than fivefold in 2018”.
“If we assume that the average of euros, we are defending in the 6 redemptions per year, 28 days of recovery of the accounts and in the economy plus a great impact in the accounts and in the economy of the redemptions”, by Gabriel Coimbra, justifying a great impact on security.
Along with the increase in investments, IDC states that the lack of technological resources will be one of the biggest problems in the coming years. It is a paradox that is yet to be resolved. “More than 1.15 million professionals will be lacking in Western Europe, and this lack of resources will cost companies around 250 million euros a year”, reveals Gabriel Coimbra.