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CAMBRIDGE, Mass.(Business Wire)Global purchases of IT goods and services by businesses and governments willdecline by 3 percent in 2009 to $1.66 trillion, according to a new forecast fromForrester Research, Inc (Nasdaq: FORR). The 2009 drop measured in US dollars isa distinct shift from 2008, when global IT purchases increased by 8 percent. The2009 decline ends seven years of growth in global IT purchases; technologypurchases fell by 6 percent in both 2001 and 2002. "Our forecast for 2009 rests on the assumptions that the economic recession inthe US and other major economies will start to end in the second half of 2009,"said Andrew Bartels, Forrester Research vice president and principal analyst."For IT vendor strategists, the global IT market will be a gloomy one in 2009,with prospects of improvement in 2010.
Unlike in past years, there are nosignificant growth markets to offset the weak ones." When measured using a mix of local currencies, the picture is a bit better, withglobal growth of 2.5 percent projected for 2009. Regionally in the relevantlocal currencies, US purchases of IT goods and services will grow by 1.6 percentin 2009; purchases in Western and Central Europe will be 1.3 percent higher thanin 2008; Eastern Europe, the Middle East, and Africa will see 5 percent growth;and Asia Pacific purchases will rise by 3 percent. However, when all of theregional numbers are equated to US dollars, there is a sharper slowdown in ITspending globally. The report highlights currency fluctuations as another key factor driving theglobal IT market and having a negative effect on US vendors in particular.Bartels noted, "The fact that 2009 IT purchases growth is so much weaker in USdollars than in local currencies means US vendors with significant overseasbusiness will feel a double dose of pain, as both the economic environment andcurrency market will work against them for much of 2009." Forrester uses several metrics to determine the health and size of the ITmarket.
The data in the Forrester report focuses on IT purchasing - how muchcomputer and communications equipment, software, IT consulting and integrationservices, and IT outsourcing businesses and governments buy from technologyvendors. It is one of the most important metrics for evaluating the health oftechnology vendors. 2009 Global IT Spending Outlook By Sector Software investment will do better than the average. Forrester projects globalpurchases of software products will be $388 billion in 2009, the same as in2008, which is better than the declines forecast for other IT goods andservices Communications equipment investment will shrink. Purchases of routers,switches, private branch exchanges (PBXs), videoconferencing equipment, andunified communications equipment will fall to $353 billion in 2009, a 3 percentdecline from $364 billion in 2008.
