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Turkey Information Technology Report Q1 2011
Business Monitor International, Jan 2011, Pages: 56
Business Monitor International's Turkey Information Technology Report provides industry professionals and strategists, corporate analysts, information technology associations, government departments and regulatory bodies with independent forecasts and competitive intelligence on Turkey's information technology industry.
Market Overview The size of the strategically located Turkish IT market is forecast to increase from around US$7.1bn in2011 to US$11.3bn by 2015, making it one of the fastest growing in emerging Europe. PC sales contracted in 2009, but low computer penetration and rising incomes should keep the market on an upward path.
Turkish IT spending is expected to strengthen throughout 2011, buoyed by a recovery in industrial production and domestic lending growth. A faster-than-anticipated emergence from recession in 2010 left Turkeys IT market in a favourable position. Many firms put investment in new technology on hold because of a deterioration in external demand, but in mid-2010 the Central Bank of Turkey (CBT)’s confidence index for the real sector had risen well above the 100 mark, signalling broad optimism.The Turkish IT market is projected to achieve a CAGR of 12% during the 2011-2015 forecast period.Turkey’s cultural and geographical position as a hub between Europe and the Middle East and accentuates the significance of the country’s large market size for IT vendors. In recent years, PC sales have received new momentum as the focus of demand shifts towards the Anatolian region and this is expected to continue as the rate of PC penetration rises.
Industry Developments The Turkish government has continued to implement its E_Gateway portal project, which is central to the government’s target of using IT to create a citizen-centric government. In the second phase, health, justice and security applications were rolled out, with remaining applications due to be added in 2010, the deadline for completing the project.
Healthcare should be a significant area of opportunity for IT vendors over the next few years as healthcare organisations seek efficiency improvements and better-quality services. The Health Transformation Project, launched by Turkey’s Ministry of Health, has driven an increase in outsourcing of hospital functions.
Meanwhile, other government departments have continued to launch tenders, including a data warehouse for Turkey’s Social Security Institute and an upgrade of the statistical system for the Ministry of Labour And Social Security. As with many other government IT projects, the statistics project was being driven by an aim for compliance with EU standards, and the EU is providing 75% of the funding from its general budget.
Competitive Landscape Strong growth prospects for the Turkish PC market have encouraged PC vendors to increase investment in channels and local production. Market leader HP’s new plant was expected to cost around US$60and will produce 200,000 units a year after operations started in 2010. Meanwhile, Japanese IT giant Fujitsu has invested US$2mn to expand its PC production capabilities in Turkey. Fujitsu expected Turkish output to be 70,000-100,000 units in 2010.
In 2011, Microsoft hopes that sales of its Windows 7 operating system, launched in October 2009, will boost local sales. According to US government figures, Microsoft leads the application software category with about 12% of the market.
IT services vendors have continued to strengthen infrastructure and service offerings in Turkey, despite the global recession. In 2009, Accenture announced that, in partnership with enterprise software giant Oracle, it was opening an Accenture Innovation Centre in Istanbul. Meanwhile, IBM opened a new Business Continuity and Resiliency Services facility in Izmir. The new facility features advanced data center and workplace recovery capabilities.
Hardware Turkey’s computer hardware sales are projected at US$5.1bn in 2011 and are forecast to reach around US$8.3bn in 2015. The market was forecast to return to positive growth in 2011, with revenues forecast to grow at a 13% 2011-2015 CAGR. With faster internet speeds, growing broadband penetration should be a key driver of PC sales across consumer and business segments.The market fundamentals remain promising, with computer penetration low at around 10%. Until a few years ago, demand for computers was mainly confined to big cities like Istanbul, Izmir and Ankara. Now,however, the fastest growth in sales is coming from Anatolia. Demand for laptops is expected to be the strongest growth area over our forecast period, but desktops remain popular with businesses.
Software The software market in Turkey is projected at US$858mn in 2011 and is forecast to reach US$1.2bn in2015, representing a CAGR of 9%. However, much will depend on the success in bringing down the rate of illegal software usage which, at 65%, is nearly twice the global average. The global economic crisis may have provided a boost to hosted software and outsourcing solutions, which have seen growing popularity among Turkish small and medium-sized enterprises.Migrations to the Windows 7 operating system has the potential to impact positively on sales in2011, although much will depend on consumer and business confidence. The economic crisis led some companies to review IT budgets or look to defer systems updates, but other companies saw IT as a means of achieving greater efficiencies in difficult times.
IT Services Turkish spending on all categories of IT services is projected at US$1.2bn in 2011, with double-digit growth as business confidence recovers following the economic contraction in 2009. An increased business focus on internal savings as a result of the economic situation could ultimately drives higher spending on external IT suppliers such as systems integrators and managed services providers.The Turkish IT services market is expected to grow at a 11% CAGR over BMI’s 2011-2015 forecast While support remains the largest services category other groups, including outsourcing on non-core functions and training services, are growing particularly fast. A pick-up in large projects in key verticals such as telecoms, manufacturing and finance should provide new corporate sector opportunities in outsourcing, systems integration and application customisation.
E-Readiness Data indicate that Turkey’s e-commerce transactions level doubled in 2007 to 54.1mn transactions, from21.7mn the previous year.
Although other operators in Turkey are providing ADSL services, they are currently reliant on the incumbent Türk Telekom’s wholesale ADSL product; wholesale connections are included in the incumbent’s reported total.
Turkey’s Telecommunications Authority is keen to foster growth of alternative broadband operators by allowing them to co-locate on Türk Telekom’s network, in addition to reselling Türk Telekom’wholesale ADSL product. Competing against Türk Telekom remains difficult, given that the incumbent owns the bulk of Turkey’s fixed-line network infrastructure and is determined to compete aggressively on price.
In 2007, the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) called for more initiatives to increase public use of information and communication technology (ICT), with research from the EU Statistics Office showing that Turkey is among countries in which internet access is very low. The Research found that only 39% of Turks had computers at home and that Turkey was below the EU average in terms of both computers per household and internet access.
Turkey lags its EU neighbours on many indicators, except e-government, where much progress has been made. In 2005 a new unit responsible for the overall coordination of ICT projects, the Information Society Department, was established within the State Planning Organization. To increase the participation and level of success, an advisory board with 41 members has also been established. This consulting body gathers representatives from public institutions, NGOs and universities.
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