{"id":21595,"date":"2013-11-28T10:15:22","date_gmt":"2013-11-28T09:15:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/?p=21595"},"modified":"2019-04-30T17:56:29","modified_gmt":"2019-04-30T15:56:29","slug":"syntec-projects-french-it-sector-to-decline-slightly-in-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/en\/2013\/11\/syntec-projects-french-it-sector-to-decline-slightly-in-2013\/","title":{"rendered":"Study suggests France’s IT sector will shrink in 2013"},"content":{"rendered":"

Although weathering the downturn better than other sectors, France’s IT sector hasn’t entirely escaped unscathed in 2013. Syntec Num\u00e9rique, a leading association representing France’s tech sector, just released their annual report on the state of play in France, which projected that\u00a0France’s tech sector will end the year down -0.3% from 2012.<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Syntec-nov2013-1\"The hardest hit in the decline are projected to be technology consulting which is down -2% and SSII (IT services and consulting) which will end up the year off by -0.3%. \u00a0Software editors however seem to be in reasonable shape as they’re expected to end the year up 1.4%. \u00a0All three areas are expected to improve in 2014, although technology consulting will likely continue to struggle (i.e. continued decline of -1.4%). In their commentary on their analysis, Syntec stressed that while the overall numbers for 2013 were concerning, there was quite a bit of differentiation by industrial sector. So, for example, technology consulting to the energy sector actually performed quite strongly during 2013.<\/p>\n

Still representing 61% of France’s IT sector revenues and the bulk of sector employment, SSII<\/a>‘s (think IBM, Cap Gemini, Accenture and the like) performance continues to have a substantial impact on the sector overall. Even a slight uptick, which is projected for next year, will go a long way in helping to turn things around. \u00a0In addition, the rapidly increasing appetite for SaaS solutions has turned out to be a clear driver of growth for the sector, and a principal reason software editors are expected to finish the year on a high note. To underscore how strong this part of the sector is performing, IDC projects that total SaaS revenues will reach \u20ac1 billion in France by end 2013, which is a highly impressive 28% increase from 2012<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, according to Pole Emploi, France’s unemployment service, the unemployment rate of those with IT and telco backgrounds stands at 8,7% for those in the category A (unemployed without any PT work activity). While worryingly high by historical standards, this rate is in fact almost 2 percentage points lower than France’s overall rate. Although the employment situation has been less favorable as of late, the IT and digital sectors in France still continue to be a net creator of jobs, having created an avg of 10k jobs each year over the past 20 years<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Source, Syntec Num\u00e9rique:<\/em><\/p>\n

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Although weathering the downturn better than other sectors, France’s IT sector hasn’t entirely escaped unscathed in 2013. Syntec Num\u00e9rique, a leading association representing France’s tech sector, just released their annual report on the state of play in France, which projected that\u00a0France’s tech sector will end the year down -0.3% from 2012. The hardest hit in<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":77,"featured_media":21600,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"subtitle":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[113],"tags":[7316],"class_list":["post-21595","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-finance","tag-saas-en-2"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21595","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/77"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21595"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21595\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21600"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}