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For 2022 PAC chose 5G as one of the key topics to survey 596 European CxOs across 14 countries. From the survey data highlighted in this blog, it is evident to PAC that 5G presents a significant opportunity ...
The leading infrastructure outsourcing and managed services providers in Germany
The public cloud market has been experiencing massive growth for years and has put considerable pressure on established IT outsourcing providers. But it has also created new growth areas for the services ecosystem.
hub.berlin 2022
Mopia Kamdoum and Aline Trautmann were invited to attend this year’s hub.berlin. The event is hosted by Bitkom, the industry association for the German information technology and telecommunications sector, and attracts speakers, multinational companies, and mainly European start-ups. The central topic was digitalization and innovation across ...
Good intentions, poor implementation - the German government introduces new indicators of economic and social welfare but is still struggling with basic digital public services
On January 26, 2022, the Annual Economic Report for 2022 (Jahreswirtschaftsbericht) was released by the German government. The report lists key economic and financial policy issues and makes predictions of macroeconomic trends in 2022, which makes it a strong planning instrument provided by the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and ...
Will the new coalition agreement in Germany open up concrete areas for digital investment?
On November 26, 2021, the coalition agreement was presented by the Social Democratic Party (SPD), the Liberal Democratic Party (FDP), and the Greens. PAC recently reviewed it in more detail in an Expert View report with respect to digitalization and potential investment areas. The bar has been set high, but only concrete action will show ...
Figure of the day: Manufacturing industry - share SITS market - Germany
According to PAC, the German manufacturing industry accounts for more than 35% of the total software and IT services (SITS) market...
Figure of the day: IT challenge cost reduction - CxO survey - Germany
39% of the enterprise leaders in Germany, we interviewed for the CxO Investment Survey, say that the pressure on IT operations to reduce costs and improve efficiency is a major challenge for their organization.
Figure of the day: IT spending on CEM - CxO survey - Germany
According to PAC's CxO Investment Survey, 25% of respondents in Germany intend to spend more on customer experience management (CEM) over the next two years.
Figure of the day: Major goals of digital transformation projects - CxO survey - Germany
49% of the enterprise leaders in Germany we interviewed for our CxO Investment Survey say that enhancing existing products and services is a major goal of their organization's current digital transformation projects.
Figure of the day: Top IT challenge cost reduction - CxO survey - Germany
According to PAC´s CxO Investment Survey, 39% of enterprise leaders in Germany strongly feel the pressure on IT operations to reduce costs & improve efficiency.
Figure of the day: Top IT challenge skilled workers - CxO survey - Germany
According to PAC´s CxO Investment Survey, 40% of enterprise leaders in Germany say that the shortage of skilled IT professionals is the most important IT challenge for their organization.
Figure of the day: Security Services in Germany
Security Services will generate a €2.985bn market in 2021 (US$3.342bn) in Germany, representing 17% of the EMEA Security Services market.
Figure of the day: Security Software in Germany
Security Software will generate a €1.889bn market in 2021 (US$2.115bn) in Germany, representing 21% of the EMEA Security Software market.
5 key takeaways from Hannover Messe 2021
Hannover Messe Digital Edition 2021 took place from April 12-16, 2021. Here are my personal key takeaways after following many sessions during that week.
Figure of the day: Increase in IT budgets 2021 in Germany
60% of German companies we surveyed in our annual CxO survey reported increasing IT budgets in 2021 compared to 2020.
Blog Post | 26 Mar 2021 Figure of the day: Public IaaS/ PaaS in Germany
Public IaaS/ PaaS will generate a € 3.9 bn market in 2021 (US$ 4.4 bn) in Germany
Figure of the day: Application Services in Germany
Application-related services (consulting, system integration, training and application management) will generate a €17.4bn market in 2021 in Germany, building the largest market in Europe.
Rackspace Technology acquires German Microsoft Cloud specialist Bright Skies
Bright Skies focuses on Microsoft’s cloud platform and offers consulting, architecture, and development services around data center modernization, cloud managed services, modern work, data, and artificial intelligence.
The C&SI vendor landscape for digital factory use cases in Germany: a heterogeneous picture ranging from generalists to specialists
teknowlogy | PAC's Digital Factory - C&SI Vendor Landscape in Germany 2020 illustrates that relevant C&SI players range from global to local C&SI players. Three of them are capable of addressing all 36 of our predefined use cases.
Digital Factory – C&SI Vendor Landscape in Germany 2020: key enablers, maturity, and adoption
When it comes to implementing such digital factory use cases, very often we see manufacturers facing the challenge of lacking own in-house capabilities and know-how – in particular related to the usage of new digital technologies – to drive development and implementation on their own. That was the trigger for us to start building a vendor ...
Der IT-Markt im Zeichen von Corona: Der Markt für Software und IT-Services in Deutschland wird deutlich schrumpfen
In unseren beiden vorangegangenen Blogposts haben wir einen Ausblick auf die Auswirkungen der Corona-Krise auf die verschiedenen IT-Segmente und Branchen gegeben. Welches Fazit ziehen wir für den Software- und IT-Services-Markt in Deutschland für 2020?