{"id":2491,"date":"2017-11-14T15:59:05","date_gmt":"2017-11-14T14:59:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.retarus.com\/blog\/en\/companies-increasingly-opting-for-it-as-a-service"},"modified":"2024-05-07T19:11:06","modified_gmt":"2024-05-07T17:11:06","slug":"companies-increasingly-opting-service","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.retarus.com\/blog\/en\/companies-increasingly-opting-service\/","title":{"rendered":"Companies increasingly opting for IT as a service"},"content":{"rendered":"
Market research and consulting firm Gartner expects companies to increasingly draw on information technology \u201cas-a-service.\u201d<\/p>\n
At the Gartner Symposium and the associated ITxpo in Barcelona Gartner recently forecast<\/a> that spending on IT in the Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) region would rise to over 1 billion US dollars for the coming year, representing an increase of slightly more than five percent compared with 2017. Yet hidden within these figures are the effects of the changing valuation of currencies \u2013 numerous Eurozone companies, for instance, are responding to the strengthening of the euro against the dollar by postponing investment in IT until 2018 in the hope that US dollar prices will come down.<\/p>\n Apart from these currency impacts, the experts also detect significant shifts in IT investment patterns. \u201cThe forecast highlights that businesses are broadly reducing spending on owning IT hardware, and increasing spending on consuming IT as-a-service,\u201d Research Vice President John-David Lovelock is quoted as saying in a press release.<\/p>\n