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Cloud computing used by 16.7% of enterprises in Latvia
At the beginning
of this year, 42.2% of the enterprise employees used computers with access to
the Internet for business purposes. Compared to the beginning of 2016, the
indicator has gone up by 1.5 percentage points.
ICT specialists[1] were employed in 13.5% of the enterprises, whereas 4.9% of the
companies provided training to develop ICT-related skills of the persons
employed. Significantly larger share of such enterprises was observed in
information and communication sector [2] (36.3%), while the smallest share of enterprises that provided
employees with such training was registered in accommodation and food service
activities (2.7%) and construction (0.7%).
The share of
enterprises engaged in web sales keeps growing – from 8.9% in 2010 and 10.2% in
2015 to 12.0% in 2016.
Cloud computing
services are becoming increasingly more popular[3]. Cloud computing is used for various IT needs of the enterprise, e.g.,
e-mail and file storage, office software access, hosting of enterprise's
databases, etc. At the beginning of 2017, cloud computing services were used by
16.7% of the enterprises employing 10 or more persons.
Cloud computing services more commonly are used by large and medium enterprises[4]. This year, the service was used by 42.9% of large, 22.0% of medium and 14.9% of small enterprises.
In 2017,
similarly as in previous years, cloud computing the most often was used by
information and communication sector enterprises (52.4%) and companies engaged
in professional, scientific and technical activities (33.7%). The smallest
share of enterprises using cloud computing was recorded in accommodation and
food service activities sector (5.2%).
Over the year,
the share of enterprises buying cloud computing has risen by
3.6 percentage points – from 8.4% in 2016 to 12.0% in 2017,
respectively.
E-mail is the
cloud computing service used over the internet bought by enterprises the most
commonly – 68.6% of the enterprises buying cloud computing. Storage of files
(60.4%) and hosting the enterprise’s database(s) (51.8%) are other cloud
computing services purchased very commonly.
Large
enterprises prefer storage of files (69.7%), whereas medium and small
enterprises buy e-mail cloud computing service (71.3% and 68.3%, respectively).
Cloud computing services
bought by enterprises more commonly (as % of total enterprise number in the corresponding group of enterprises
buying cloud computing)
|
Total |
of which by number of
employees |
||||||
10–49 (small) |
50–249 (medium) |
250+ |
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2016 |
2017 |
2016 |
2017 |
2016 |
2017 |
2016 |
2017 |
|
Most common cloud computing services bought by enterprises |
||||||||
E-mail |
68.0 |
68.6 |
68.5 |
68.3 |
69.6 |
71.3 |
59.2 |
63.2 |
Storage of
files |
53.2 |
60.4 |
50.7 |
59.2 |
59.0 |
61.6 |
58.2 |
69.7 |
Hosting the enterprise’s database(s) |
49.2 |
51.8 |
48.8 |
52.8 |
50.7 |
50.2 |
47.8 |
47.4 |
Finance or accounting software applications |
38.2 |
42.3 |
41.4 |
47.0 |
32.4 |
33.1 |
27.4 |
21.1 |
Office software (e.g. word processors, spreadsheets, etc.) |
33.0 |
38.9 |
33.0 |
34.9 |
30.5 |
47.4 |
39.0 |
55.3 |
More information society
statistics is available in the CSB database section Science and Technology
(Information Technologies).
[1]ICT specialists or IT specialists are able to specify, plan, develop,
install, operate, provide support, maintain, manage, evaluate and investigate
ICT and IT systems. ICT/IT is their main job.
[2]The survey covers enterprises employing ten or more persons in the
following economic activities: manufacturing; electricity, gas, steam and air
conditioning supply; water supply, sewerage, waste management and remediation
activities; construction; wholesale and retail trade; repair of motor vehicles
and motorcycles; accommodation and food service activities; transportation and
storage; information and communication; real estate activities; professional,
scientific and technical activities; administrative and support service
activities; and repair of computers and communication equipment.
[3]Cloud computing is ICT service on the Internet which provides access to
software, data processing capacity and data repository sites (e.g., Google
Drive, iCloud, Dropbox, Windows OneDrive/SkyDrive, Amazon Cloud Drive, etc.),
etc.
[4]Small enterprises are employing 10–49 persons, medium –50–249 persons and
large – 250 and more persons.