Gartner predicts 5% IT spending growth in Thailand
Home-based study, work to spur reversal
The pandemic resulted in a contraction of almost 5% in Thailand’s IT spending in 2020, but it is forecast to bounce back to a 5% growth this year, propelled by people working from home and studying online, says global leading tech research firm Gartner in a report.
In 2020, IT spending in the country fell 4.9% year-on-year to 636.2 billion baht.
Devices saw the biggest year-on-year drop of 14.5%, compared with other IT sectors, to 161.7 billion baht, followed by IT services with a 3.5% fall to 60.1 billion baht, data centre systems with a 1.1% decline to 24.8 billion baht, communications services with a 0.9% dip to 349.2 billion baht.
Only enterprise software saw growth with a 0.4% rise to 40.4 billion baht.
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