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DECEMBER 2019 Supported by: About STIKK

As a catalyst to the dynamic technology industry, STIKK accelerates growth and prog- ress for the fast-paced economy. it shapes the industry at large. STIKK provides a plat- form that unites technology leaders to connect and collaborate, and it avidly supports members who push the boundaries to propel technology forward.Since its establish- ment in 2008, STIKK was able to achieve numerous successes and become one of the leading drivers of the ICT industry and ICT community in . Striving towards the development of the ICT industry, STIKK implemented numerous projects aimed to pro- mote the ICT sector of Kosovo, improve its regulatory framework, implement research and industry specific analysis, and facilitate professional development of sector’s con- stituents.

STIKK currently accounts for 200+ members, which represents 90% of the whole ICT market of Kosovo. STIKK is dedicated to help out the long-term-growth of the Informa- tion and Communications Technology industry in Kosovo; is committed to improving the business environment for the ICT, as well as promoting the contribution of the Informa- tion and Communications Technology to economic growth and social progress in Koso- vo.STIKK seeks to participate in the development and implementation of policies by helping the Government and Institutions of Kosovo to understand current and future technology trends, and how technology can contribute to the economic growth of the country. Table of Contents

LIST OF TABLES AND FIGURES 3

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY 4

KEY FINDINGS 4 4

INTRODUCTION 5

RESEARCH METHODOLOGY 6

FINDINGS 7

KOSOVO IT COMPANIES INFORMATION 7

TRENDS IN THE INDUSTRY 9

EXPORT OF IT SERVICES AND PRODUCTS 16

HUMAN RESOURCES 19

FINANCIAL PERFORMANCE 20

2 LIST OF TABLES AND FIGURES

FIGURE 1: WHERE IS YOUR COMPANY LOCATED? (N=38) 7

FIGURE 2: WHICH TYPE OF OWNERSHIP STRUCTURE APPLIES TO YOUR COMPANY? (N=38) 7

FIGURE 3: YOUR COMPANY IS A MEMBER OF WHICH ASSOCIATION: (N=38) 8

FIGURE 4: WHICH PRODUCTS AND/OR SERVICES DOES YOUR COMPANY PROVIDE? (N=38) 9

FIGURE 5: WHAT KIND OF OPERATING SYSTEMS AND PLATFORMS DO YOU USE? (N=38) 9

FIGURE 6: WHICH TECHNOLOGIES DO YOU USE TO DELIVER SERVICES/DEVELOP PRODUCTS? (N=38) 10

TABLE 1: WHICH PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES AND DEVELOPMENT TOOLS DO YOU USE? (N=38) 11

TABLE 2: WHICH DATABASE TECHNOLOGIES DO YOU USE? (N=38) 12

TABLE 3: WHICH SECTORS DO YOU CURRENTLY OPERATE IN KOSOVO AND INERNATIONAL MARKETS? (N=38) 13

FIGURE 7: WHICH OF THE FOLLOWING QUALITY STANDARDS DOES YOUR COMPANY OPTAIN? (N=38) 14

FIGURE 8: WHICH IS THE PRIMARY REASON OF OBTAINING A QUALITY STANDARD FOR YOUR COMPANY? (N=38) 14

FIGURE 9: WHICH OF THE FOLLOWING TECHNICAL CERTIFICATIONS APPLY TO YOUR EMPLOYEES? (N=38) 15

FIGURE 10: WHAT IS THE PERCENTAGE OF THE MARKET LOCALLY AND INTERNATIONALLY? (N=37) 16

FIGURE 11: HOW DO YOU DO BUSINESS IN EXPORT MARKETS? (N=38) 16

TABLE 4: WHICH HORIZONTAL MARKET DO YOU CURRENTLY PROVIDE IT PRODUCTS AND/OR SERVICES? (N=38) 17

FIGURE 12: RATING OF EXPORT POTENTIAL (N=27-33) 18

FIGURE 13: WHICH ARE THE CORE COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGES OF YOUR COMPANY? (N=38) 19

FIGURE 14: WHICH LANGUAGES DO YOUR EMPLOYEES SPEAK? (N=38) 20

FIGURE 15: OBSTACLES IN DOING BUSINESS IN EXPORT MARKETS (N=27-30) 20

FIGURE 16: WHAT WAS YOUR ANNUAL REVENUE IN EUR? (N=16-18) 21

FIGURE 17: WHAT WAS THE EXPORT FOR THE YEARS 2017, 2018 AND FORECAST FOR 2019? (N=23-24) 22

FIGURE 18: NUMBER OF EMPLOYEES AND ASSOCIATIES? (N=19) 22

FIGURE 19: EMPLOYEE STRUCTURE (N=32) 23

FIGURE 20: WHICH IS YOUR EMPLOYEE TURNOVER RATE? (N=36) 23

FIGURE 21: HOW LONG DOES IT TAKE FOR YOU TO REPLACE EXISTING EMPLOYEES? (N=36) 24

FIGURE 22: WHAT HAS BEEN THE AVARAGE MONTHY SALAIES FOR 2018 AND PROJECTIONS FOR 2019? (N=8-19) 24

FIGURE 23: AVARAGE BILABLE RATE (N=8-19) 25

FIGURE 24: DOES YOUR COMPANY FACE A DEFICIT OF SKILLES/QUALIFIED WORKFORCE? (N=38) 25

FIGURE 25: HOW DO THEY COPE WITH DEFICIT OF SKILLED/QUALITIFED WORKFORCE? (N=38) 26

TABLE 5: HOW TO YOU EXPECT YOUR NUMBER OF EMPLOYEES TO CHANGE? (N=33) 26

TABLE 6: HOW TO YOU EXPECT YOUR SALARIES OF EMPLOYEES TO CHANGE? (N=33) 27

FIGURE 26: WHAT IS YOUR EXPECTED INFLUENCE OF THE FOLLOWING FACTORS IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF YOUR 28 BUSINESS? (N=31)

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3 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

This study was conducted by Kosovo ICT Association (STIKK) with the purpose of gathering data on the operation and development of the IT sector in Kosovo. The survey is a follow up to the “IT Barometer”, which is being carried out yearly by STIKK.

To gather information for this survey, a sample of 38 IT companies operating in Kosovo was used. The data gathering and analysis of the IT Barometer took place between September and December of 2019.

KEY FINDINGS

The ICT sector in Kosovo is relatively new, however it is developing fast, as the IT Barometer study discovers year after year.

As a considerable amount of companies are working in the international market, the potential and experience in the international market seems to be of immense importance for the ICT sector in Kosovo. Namely 61% of the IT companies participating in the research work in the international market, compared to the local market which stands for 39% of their market.

Companies have found different ways to do business with international companies. According to the IT companies surveyed, by far the most popular way is direct exports from Kosovo to the client abroad. Others are doing business by a subsidiary / branch office in the target market, as a distribution partner / Local Partner (sales agent), with a representative office, as well as a joint venture.

The most popular local horizontal markets are document management, followed by Business intelli- gent / Data Warehousing, Business process optimization, E-commerce and Product maintenance, Support and Customization.

According to the companies participating in this research Central , USA and UK have the high- est potential to export to, namely Switzerland and , followed by North America (USA and Canada), and United Kingdom. East Asia, and Middle East and Africa are seen with little or no potential to export.

Despite the increase in the average number of employees from 14 in 2018 to 16 in 2019, the IT industry does not have many difficulties in retaining their employees as almost half of the companies (42%) have had a turnover rate of 10 to 25 percent. Nevertheless, companies also believe that they will easily find new employees. Half of the interviewed companies believe that they will find a new employee in less than 3 months, 36% believe that they will find a new employee in 3-6 months, 11% in more than 6 months.

The positive trend in the rise of average number of employees and their salaries is expected to contin- ue in 2020.

In terms of how IT companies in Kosovo operate, they provide mainly Software/IT services, followed by services for hardware products and Software products. They use mainly Windows and .NET technolo- gies to deliver services. And JAVASCRIPT, HTML, XML and PHP are most used programing languages. While, the most popular database technologies amongst the IT companies are MSQL/MYSQL, followed by MS SQL Server.

The most popular sector for the local needs is the financial services, followed by Public Sector, Utilities and Telecommunications (Wireless and Mobile), whereas the most popular sector for the international market is the IT Services and Outsourcing and Utilities.

The technical certifications that apply to their employees are long. More than half of the sample namely 58% of them declared that the Project management professional certification (PMP) applies to their employees followed by Microsoft certificates 53%, Scrum 50%.

4 INTRODUCTION

Information and Communication Technology (ICT) has started to play a major role in the economic growth of Kosovo, since it has become a destination of regional and international companies seeking for outsourcing services. Being a strategic sector of the country, governmental institutions and inter- national institutions operating in Kosovo have provided their support towards the growth of the ICT sector by ensuring the empowerment of the sector’s main actors.

Considering that the IT sector in Kosovo is relatively new, with most companies being created after 2000s, it is experiencing a rapid growth and quickly moving towards global ICT trends. Established in 2008, STIKK remains one of the biggest supporters of the ICT sector and ICT community as it continu- ously bases its activity in promoting the ICT Sector in Kosovo. STIKK’s goals are achieved by imple- menting activities based in its main pillars as Export Promotion, Improving Company Excellence & Quality, Investment Promotion, Domestic Market Development and IT Promotion Policy.

IT Barometer is a vehicle of STIKK to support the Kosovo ICT sector with the aim to: • Provide an overview on the development of the IT sector; • Support the export capacities of ICT companies in Kosovo; • Provide recent trends in the IT industry;

STIKK commissioned Kantar Index Kosovo to perform data processing & data analysis and to prepare the 2019 Kosovo IT Barometer report, whereas the data collection was conducted by STIKK itself.

These basic information on ICT companies in Kosovo is meant to provide an insight of the value of the national ICT market, including the export capacity.

The South East Europe IT Industry Barometer (SEE ITIB) has been carried out in Kosovo since 2014. It is supported by Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ).

SEE ITIB Kosovo 2019 focuses on exploring the following issues related to the IT sector in Kosovo:

• General overview on the companies and the IT sector in Kosovo; • Comparative analysis; • Recent export trends between targeted countries (export potential, export activities, interna- tional cooperation, export barriers); • Analysis of Human Resources;

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The research approach that was used for the IT Barometer 2019 was done by a quantitative survey, through computer assisted web interviewing (CAWI) technique.

The sample frame consists of the list of IT companies in Kosovo composed by STIKK. The overall sample consists of 38 interviews with IT companies.

The questionnaire for the “IT Barometer” is a standardized questionnaire used in South East Europe, more precisely The South Europe It Barometer (SEE ITIB). The questionnaire was updated and adapt- ed by the STIKK project team for local needs. The questionnaire was then loaded to Survey Monkey survey management system and sent out to companies to fill out.

The data collection for this survey was completed between September and December of 2019.

6 FINDINGS

KOSOVO IT COMPANIES INFORMATION

In order to understand the IT companies in Kosovo better, we asked some general information about where and how they are registered. The data reveals that the vast majority of the IT companies operating in Kosovo that participated in the research are located in Kosovo (37), only one of them has its headquarters in Slovenia. Some of the companies have also branches in other countries like in and Switzerland and the United Stated of America. .

Slovenia 1

Kosovo 37

FIGURE 1: WHERE IS YOUR COMPANY LOCATED? (N=38)

The majority of the organizations (90% of them) has 50% national ownership, whereas only 10% of them are a branch of a foreign company, the company works only for the partner company or the other companies belonging to the group.

Branch of a foreign company (If the company works only for the parent company 10% or for other companies belonging to the group)

90% 50% national ownership

FIGURE 2: WHICH TYPE OF OWNERSHIP STRUCTURE APPLIES TO YOUR COMPANY? (N=38)

7 When it comes to associations, all of the participating companies in the IT Barometer 2019 are mem- bers of the STIKK association, whereas only a limited number of them (5%) are member of other asso- ciations such as BCC (Business Consultant Council), and 3% are a member of the BIT Alliance: Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Bosnia-Herzegovina: BIT Aliance 3%

BCC (Business Consultant Council) 5%

Kosovo: STIKK 100%

FIGURE 3: YOUR COMPANY IS A MEMBER OF WHICH ASSOCIATION: (N=38)

8 TRENDS IN THE INDUSTRY

In order to have an overview on the products and services and to understand the recent develop- ments we have asked the companies on what are the products/services that they provide. Software/IT services are on top of the list, and are provided by 87% of the IT companies, followed by Services for hardware products (82%) and Software products (76%). A third of the IT companies namely 26% of them provide hardware products and 11% of the companies provide other services and prod- ucts like: Cyber security, customer care, BPO, E-procurement, Digital Marketing (specifically SEO and SEA), Document Management Services, ICT Consulting & Audit, Information Security and, Business Solutions, Education and Training, etc. 100%

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FIGURE 4: WHICH PRODUCTS AND/OR SERVICES DOES YOUR COMPANY PROVIDE? (N=38)

When it comes to usage of operating systems the vast majority of the IT companies in Kosovo uses Windows (95%), followed by Linux (66%), MAC-OS (63%), Android (61%), iOS (55%) and only a limited of the companies namely 16% of them uses UNIX as an operating system.

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FIGURE 5: WHAT KIND OF OPERATING SYSTEMS AND PLATFORMS DO YOU USE? (N=38)

9 The list of technologies used to deliver services is rather long. The main one is .NET used by 58% of the sample, whereas the other ones presented on the table below are also used often such as Artificial Intelligence 18%, Xamarin 18%, VR/AR 13%, and Blockchain 11%. 34% of the IT companies participating in this survey mentioned many other technologies they use such as: in house produce software’s, PHP Laravel, NodeJS, ReactJs, React Native, VueJS, SCADA & PLC and many more.

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If any ISO 27001 and ISO 9001 are the most popular quality standards to be obtained amongst IT com- panies in Kosovo.

ISO 9001 is obtained by a third of the companies (34%), whereas ISO 27001 is obtained by a quarter of the companies (26%).

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FIGURE 7: WHICH OF THE FOLLOWING QUALITY STANDARDS DOES YOUR COMPANY OPTAIN? (N=38

Whereas when asked what were the reasons that they had obtained the ISO 27001 and ISO 9001 stan- dards were, 29% of them stated that these quality standards improve processes in the companies, 11% of them stated that it was required by clients/potential clients and 8% of them stated that they obtained them because it would improve the image and reputation of their company.

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FIGURE 8: WHICH IS THE PRIMARY REASON OF OBTAINING A QUALITY STANDARD FOR YOUR COMPANY? (N=38)

14 The companies participating in the research exercise were asked to elaborate on the technical certifi- cations that apply to their employees.

The list of certifications is long and diverse. More than half of the sample namely 58% of them declared that the Project management professional certification (PMP) applies to their employees followed by Microsoft certificates 53%, Scrum 50%, Cisco 37%, DecOps Certificates 29%, Jira 24%, ISTQB Certified Tester 18%, Other 29% namely: AWS Certificates, Linux Certificates, Azure, Cyber security Certificates Digital Marketing Certified, Facebook Blueprint Certified, Google Partner, Switzerland Global Enter- prise, ITIL, internal academy certificates, Reisswolf Document Management Certification, Vmware, Ec-council, HPE, Dell EmC, Xerox certificates Whereas 13% of the companies have declared that none of the certifications apply for their employees.

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FIGURE 9: WHICH OF THE FOLLOWING TECHNICAL CERTIFICATIONS APPLY TO YOUR EMPLOYEES? (N=38)

15 EXPORT OF IT SERVICES AND PRODUCTS

As a considerable amount of companies are working in the international market, the potential and experience in the international market has been explored further in the following section.

Namely 61% of the IT companies work in international market, compared to the 39% in local market.

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FIGURE 10: WHAT IS THE PERCENTAGE OF THE MARKET LOCALLY AND INTERNATIONALLY? (N=37)

Companies have found different ways to do business with international companies, according to the IT companies. By far the most popular way is direct exports from your country to the client abroad 68%. Others are doing business by a subsidiary / branch office in the target market 26%, as a distribu- tion partner / Local Partner (sales agent) 26%, with a representative office 18%, and as a joint venture 8%.

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FIGURE 11: HOW DO YOU DO BUSINESS IN EXPORT MARKETS? (N=38)

16 The table below presents in detail the horizontal markets where the companies are engaged in.

The most popular local horizontal markets are document management 18%, followed by Business intelligent/ Data Warehousing, Business process optimization, E-commerce and Product mainte- nance, Support and Customization (13% each).

Whereas the most popular horizontal market for the international market are Custom Develop- ment/Outsourcing 42%, Business Process Optimization 34%, Web design; development and IT con- sulting 32%, and many others.

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At the end we have posted an interesting question to the companies, where we asked them to express the factors that they believe can influence their business.

Opinions on the factors that might have the highest influence on their business are quite diverse and different amongst the companies interviewed for this research exercise. Some companies, namely 22% believe that government policy has a high influence on their business, on the other hand 13% of the companies believe that government has no influence at all. The HR market also seems to be an interesting factor, whereas 19% of the companies believe that HR market has a high influence on their business.

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