Thailand is projected to reach almost THB 871.5 billion in 2022, an increase of 6.4% from 2021.

Worldwide IT spending is projected to total $4.5 trillion in 2022, an increase of 5.5% from 2021, according to the latest forecast by Gartner, Inc.

“Enterprises will increasingly build new technologies and software, rather than buy and implement them, leading to overall slower spending levels in 2022 compared to 2021,” said John-David Lovelock, distinguished research vice president at Gartner.

“However, digital tech initiatives remain a top strategic business priority for companies as they continue to reinvent the future of work, focusing spending on making their infrastructure bulletproof and accommodating increasingly complex hybrid work for employees going into 2022.”

Enterprise software is expected to have the highest growth in 2022 at 11.5% (see Table 1), driven by infrastructure software spending continuing to outpace application software spending. Global spending growth on devices reached a peak in 2021 (15.1%) as remote work, telehealth and remote learning took hold, but Gartner expects 2022 will still show an uptick in enterprises that upgrade devices and/or invest in multiple devices to thrive in a hybrid work setting.

Thailand IT Spending Forecast

Spending on technology products and services in Thailand is projected to reach almost THB 871.5 billion in 2022, an increase of 6.4% from 2021, according to the latest forecast from Gartner, Inc.

The largest IT spending segment in Thailand is communications services, but it’s expected to show the lowest growth in 2022.

Spending growth on devices (primarily PCs and tablets) reached a peak of 21.7% in 2021 as remote work and learning took hold. Individuals and enterprises upgraded devices and/or invested in multiple devices for remote or hybrid work. 

Enterprise software is forecast to show the highest growth in 2022, with an increase of 14.8% from 2021 (see Table 2).

“What changed in 2020 and 2021 was not really the technology itself, but people’s willingness and eagerness to adopt it and use it in different ways,” said Lovelock. “In 2022, CIOs need to reconfigure how work is done by embracing business composability and the technologies that accommodate asynchronous workflows.”

More detailed analysis on the outlook for global IT spending is available in the Gartner webinar "IT Spending Forecast, 3Q21 Update: Help Employees and Customers Stay Connected'.  

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