The digitization of the country is advancing, but much remains to be done. In 2017, the Italian digital market grew by 2,3% to 68.722 million euros and forecasts for the next few years are positive: +2,6% for 2018, +2,8% for 2019, +3,1, 2020% for XNUMX. Despite this, the gap accumulated over the years of the crisis continues to weigh. This is what emerges from the surveys of Anitec-Assinform, the Confindustria association which brings together the main companies in the sector, conducted in collaboration with NetConsulting cube.
"The numbers confirm the recovery of digital investments in Italy. It's good, not just for our industry. Investing in digital is the most effective answer to consolidate the recovery. It is a concrete way to face the challenge of competitiveness in a structural way, raising the productivity of our country-system through innovation. The signals are good, but we need to give them continuity, looking to the future and the delays to be made up for, with timely programming, encouraging the most innovative drives towards the full adoption of enabling digital solutions". This is Marco Gay's comment, president of Anitec-Assinform.
Returning to the data, both i digital content and advertising (+7,7%) both i ICT services (+4%), software and solutions (+5,9%), “while the devices and systems and intangible infrastructures show resilience despite a constant drop in unit prices. And if you go through the different sectors to weigh the dynamics of the most innovative components ever (digital enabler) we note how the cloud is growing at rates of 23,3%, the IoT of 17,4%, the mobile business of 11,9%, the security solutions of 10,8%”, explains Anitec-Assiom.
“The growth of the most innovative components must be supported, due to the consistency achieved and their multiplier effect. – added Gay – The IoT transforms the objects of our manufactures into components of networked systems with new functions, deeply innovating them and increasing their value. Cloud and collaborative platforms make it possible to reshape entire supply chains in a digital key and to evolve customer-supplier relationships. Big Data and cognitive computing are driving new knowledge-based businesses. Digital security platforms are the basis of all innovations, especially in the mobile and payment fields, and this while ICT cloud services are already reducing the access threshold to the most advanced applications and services, making them available even to small businesses ”.
While the improvements are obvious, much remains to be done both as regards small businesses and in terms of the national digital strategy and the modernization of the public administration which, starting from SpID and the National Registry of the Resident Population, appears to be significantly late.
"The Three-Year Plan for information technology in the PA was long in coming - continues the association's note - and has not yet given the impulses seen on other fronts, such as those concerning Health, Education and above all Industry 4.0, which alone has generated a market of 2184 million euros (56% made up of ICT systems and 44% from industrial systems) and which under equal regulatory conditions promises to keep progressing at least until 2020".
