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Ict Sector in Slovakia I Slovak Investment and Trade Development Agency ICT SECTOR IN SLOVAKIA I www.sario.sk I Slovak Investment and Trade Development Agency Introduction Information and communication technologies (ICT) sector has become an essential part of the world economy due to spread of internet and other modern technologies that can facilitate and speed up production. ICT specialists turned out to be a valuable resource for companies charged not only with running the ICT infrastructure. According to a Deloitte survey, managers increasingly expect from their IT teams to cut the IT costs (50%), drive innovation in the business through technology (41%), optimise business processes (38%) and support the corporate strategy (27%). This enhanced role of IT specialists is a proof of importance of the ICT sector for future economic growth. ICT plays an important role in the Slovak economy as well. While in December 2012, the industrial production plummeted by 4.4% in comparison to December 2011, sales of ICT sector grew by 34%. As the average monthly wage in the ICT sector exceeded EUR 1,700 in 2012, it is not surprising that an ICT employee pays approximately two times higher taxes as an average employee in Slovakia. The ICT sector, employing more than 40 000 people and with a significant share of social, health and tax payments, as well as the growth of productivity, is therefore an important pillar of the economy. The period during which the new EU members gained ground by means of low labour cost is coming to an end. If they want to expand dynamically in the future, they have to increase productivity and ICT plays a significant role in this area. It has a great potential for economic growth and post-crisis economy recovery. European strategy called Digital Agenda 2020 accredits 50% share of economic growth of the EU in the course of the last 15 years to ICT, and regards the sector as the main engine of the post-crisis convalescence. An engine that is additionally in concordance with the requirements for sustainable development. For the definition purposes, ICT sector is defined as consisting of all enterprises / units (including both natural and legal persons) whose principal activity (principal activity contributes 50 and more percent to the value added) belongs to following divisions of Eurostat’s NACE Rev. 2 classification1: • Publishing activities • Motion picture, video and television programme production, sound recording and music publishing activities • Programming and broadcasting activities • Telecommunications • Computer programming, consultancy and related activities • Information services activities 1 The detailed division classification can be found at: <http://epp.eurostat.ec.europa.eu/cache/ITY_OFFPUB/KS-RA-07-015/EN/KS-RA-07-015-EN.PDF> I www.sario.sk I Slovak Investment and Trade Development Agency Although the term ICT will be used throughout the analysis, the content focuses mainly on telecommunications and computer programming. Situation in the ICT industry Slovakia offers many business advantages, such as relatively low wage costs for talented, adaptable and educated work force, foreign languages spoken at rather high level (English and German in particular), business friendly environment, rising labour productivity and educational institutions of high quality in the field of ICT. Similarly important is the focus on connection between research and practical problems that is manifest in the activities of IT Association of Slovakia (ITAS), ICT clusters in Žilina and Košice, as well as the Central European Institute of Technology (CEIT) in the aforementioned cities. For instance, the CEIT in Žilina focuses on innovations in industrial manufacturing process, cooperating with big companies as Volkswagen or Whirlpool. CEIT in Košice, on the other hand, is connected more to research in medicine. For all these reasons, information and communication technology sector has a solid position in the Slovak economy that can be demonstrated not only by the presence of foreign companies (Dell, IBM, HP) but also strong domestic IT companies (ESET, Sygic etc.). Following parts will deal with statistics on their activities but will also give a general overview of the size of ICT sector and foreign investments in the form of SSC – ICT. The size of ICT sector in Slovakia ICT industry is not only one of the pillars of the Slovak economy, but it is also one of a few sectors Slovakia can rely on when searching for sources of potential growth of country’ s GDP. The gross value added of the Slovak ICT sector was 3 billion EUR in 2012 and it creates 4,5% of Slovak economy’s GDP. This is more than traditional sectors including Agriculture, forestry and fishing (2.8%) or Financial and insurance activities (3.3%). Information and telecommunication sector Gross value added (2012) 2.99 billion eur Share of GDP (2012) 4.5 % Average salary in ICT in Slovakia (2012) 1 705 eur Increase in average salary in ICT (2012 in + 4.0 % comparison to 2011) Average salary in ICT in Bratislava region 1 962 eur (2012) Number of employees in ICT sector (2012) 45 707 Sources: Regional Statistics Database, Statistical Office of the Slovak Republic 2013 In 2012, ICT sector employed 45 707 people. Within this group, telecommunication accounted for approximately 9 500 employees for the past 5 years. However, computer programming has experienced a real employment boom – after the setback in 2010, employment increased by 83% in the following two years reaching 21 794 persons in 2012. IT sector in Slovakia now I www.sario.sk I Slovak Investment and Trade Development Agency comprises approximately 13 000 economic subjects, half of which are companies. Employment in computer programming, consultancy and related activities 25000 20000 15000 10000 5000 0 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 Source: Statistical Office of the Slovak Republic 2013 Employment in ICT sector (in persons) 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 Telecommunications 9 529 9 616 9 546 9 509 9 447 Computer programming, consultancy and related activities 15 729 16 640 11 930 18 993 21 794 Other ICT areas 16 291 17 492 17 435 14 915 14 466 TOTAL 41 549 43 748 39 211 43 417 45 707 Slovak IT companies Solid position of ICT sector in the Slovak economy is demonstrated by strong Slovak IT companies. Added value of Slovak IT suppliers in 2012 grew by 7%. The long-term leadership of tailor-made software development was overcome by outsourcing services. There is a significant shift from ownership of IT services towards outsourcing of IT services by foreign customers. Another development is growth in provision of services supplied to public sector that cost 269 million EUR in 2012; that means a 40% growth in comparison to previous year. With current gradual implementation of e-government services, these numbers might spiral even further. I www.sario.sk I Slovak Investment and Trade Development Agency IT Services Market in Slovakia 2012 (%) Outsourcing Application support Tailor-made software development New implementations Hardware maintenance IT Security IT Service Providers in Slovakia (2012) Sales by type of service Software IT developme services New Hardware IT nt (both Applicatio Outsourcin Company name sales impleme maintenanc securit packaged n support g (ths. ntations e y and tailor- eur) made) Asseco Central 118 601 15 673 21 678 37 836 42 462 465 - Europe a.s. T-systems 80 698 • • • 80 698 • - Slovakia, s.r.o. Soitron, a.s. 56 718 - 15 988 6 033 27 247 5 350 2 100 Atos IT Solutions and 47 645 - 18 068 28 577 - - - Services Tempest, a.s. 41 725 1 443 82 10 801 16 394 8 609 3 038 Siemens PSE, 35 214 35 214 - - - - - s.r.o. Ness 31 135 22 968 1 791 5 698 - 442 - Slovensko, a.s. Alcatel – Lucent 27 075 6 029 - - - 21 046 - Slovakia, a.s. PosAm, s.r.o. 20 776 7 947 4 993 3 485 3 227 1 124 - RWE IT 19 692 2 954 4 923 11 815 - - - Slovakia, s.r.o. Gratex International, 18 492 13 954 561 3 211 106 - 412 a.s. Softec, s.r.o. 15 334 13 102 - 2 232 - - - Axasoft, a.s. 14 266 1 125 - 1 322 11 230 246 - Datalan, a.s. 13 255 7 257 409 235 2 324 1 744 - S&T Slovakia, 11 195 - 3 084 3 574 882 1 260 - s.r.o. I www.sario.sk I Slovak Investment and Trade Development Agency Softip, a.s. 9 497 3 746 - 5 705 46 - - Asseco 8 172 587 890 6 185 230 58 - Solutions, a.s. Sféra, a.s. 7 103 1 744 - 3 330 - - - Source: Trend, 30 May 2013 Software houses (packaged software + tailor-made development) The most Software Production Change Tailor-made important Company development of No. of (%) development products of name 2012 (ths. packaged developers 2012/2011 (ths. eur) packaged eur) software software Eset Nod32, Antivirus, Eset Smart Eset, s.r.o. 267 650 164,0 267 650 - 223 Security, Eset Cyber Security Siemens Program and System 35 214 -0,9 - 35 214 592 Engineering, s.r.o. StartBANK, Asseco eStarBANK, Central 23 044 -11,1 7 371 15 673 599 StarCARD, Europe, a.s. StartBUILD, StarSTAT,.. Ness Slovensko, 22 968 13,5 - 22 968 271 a.s. Gratex International, 13 954 -28,1 - 13 954 245 a.s. Softec, s.r.o. 13 102 19,7 - 13 102 194 Mobile Maps, Aura, GPS Sygic, a.s. 11 581 29,8 11 581 - n Navigation, Fleet PosAm, s.r.o. 7 947 -8,3 - 7 947 99 Datalan 7 257 37,1 - 7 257 74 Alcatel – 6 029 -7,2 - 6 029 85 Lucent I www.sario.sk I Slovak Investment and Trade Development Agency Slovakia, a.s.
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