Report 26 Nov 2024

Software & IT Services - Market Figures - Rest of Africa

This Excel document delivers market figures broken down by products and services. Figures cover a seven-year time frame (results from the past two years and forecasts for the next four years). Figures include both volume and compound annual growth rates for the following segments:

       1. Total Software and Cloud Platforms
            1.1. Infrastructure Software & Platforms
                  1.1.1. Operating Systems
                  1.1.2. N3SM (Network, System, Storage and Security Management)
                  1.1.3. Middleware
            1.2. Application Software Products
                  1.2.1. Office, Content & Collaboration
                  1.2.2. Horizontal Business Applications (incl. BI)
                  1.2.3. Vertical Business Applications
                  1.2.4. Technical Applications
            1.3. Software as a Service (SaaS)
                  1.3.1. N3SM & Middleware
                  1.3.2. Office, Content and Collaboration
                  1.3.3. Horizontal Business Applications (incl. BI)
                  1.3.4. Industry-specific applications
            1.4. Public IaaS/PaaS
       2. Total IT Services
            2.1. Infrastructure-Related Services
                  2.1.1. Infrastructure Support Services
                        2.1.1.1. Hardware Maintenance
                        2.1.1.2. Field Services and Services Desk
                  2.1.2. Infrastructure-Related Project Services
                        2.1.2.1. Infrastructure-Related Consulting
                        2.1.2.2. Infrastructure-Related System Integration
                        2.1.2.3. Infrastructure-Related IT Training
                  2.1.3. Infrastructure Outsourcing Services
                        2.1.3.1. End User Devices Outsourcing
                        2.1.3.2. Data Center Outsourcing & Hosting 
                        2.1.3.3. Managed Data Center Services
           2.2. Application-Related Services
                  2.2.1. Application related Project Services
                        2.2.1.1. Application-Related Consulting
                        2.2.1.2. Application-Related System Integration
                        2.2.1.3. Application-Related IT Training
                  2.2.2. Application Management
           2.3. BPO
      Total Software and IT Services
      Hardware Market
      Total IT Market

but also:

  • Personnel;
  • Hardware Expenditure;
  • Software and IT Services Expenditure;
  • Miscellaneous.
  • Total IT Expenditure


The document offers invaluable data that allow year-on-year analysis as well as compound annual growth rate comparisons. The document also gives an accurate picture of the evolution of the market structure over a seven-year time frame.

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