Market Overview

The market size of IT (including hardware, software and services) at domestic private enterprises in FY2018 was estimated to rise by 2.8% on a year-on-year basis to reach 12,493,000 million yen. The market is projected to rise by 3.4% on the same basis to achieve 12,918,000 million yen during FY2019, by 1.6% to attain 13,124,000 million yen in FY2020, and by 1.5% to reach 13,320,000 million yen in FY2021.

For FY2018 higher profitability at private enterprises and renewal of large-scale systems were prominent, in addition to the steady attempts of workstyle reforms. Also, companies were eager to replace Windows7 with Windows10, as the support of Windows7 coming to an end in January 2020. This tendency is projected to go on for FY2019.

Noteworthy Topics

For the First Time in 8 Years ERP Became No.1 Software to Increase Investment during Next Three Years

Our annually conducted questionnaire asks the companies about which software they consider increasing the investment to during the next three years. In the survey conducted in 2019, ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) reached the top position for the first time in eight years, alongside security related software, both occupying 41.9%. (482 companies responded to the question in which up to three software categories were able to be chosen).

The reasons of ERP having attained the top position were the tendency of companies to renew the mission-critical system according to the changes in the management environment, the progress of cloud-base ERP packages, and the expiration of ERP maintenance support by SAP closing in to 2025.

Future Outlook

In recent years, the companies such as in the manufacturing industry have become motivated to enhance the global competitiveness. This has increased the investment to digital transformation, i.e., to support the business by using IT. In addition, IT investment in the financial industry that had contributed in IT investment continues being stable, as oppose to the forecast of no large growth expected, because diverse companies started participating in the industry and more companies began providing IT-used services (FinTech).

The IT market size (including hardware, software and services) at domestic private companies for FY2020 and beyond is likely to grow moderately, being affected by downturn from the recent rapid market growth, though the investment to 5G can be expected as its commercial services start from this fiscal year.  

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