“Software industry beats the crisis’ – Automation Guide

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The Dutch software industry has continued to grow strong during the economic crisis. The past four years, net sales by four percent to 23.5 billion euros and an added value of 16.7 billion. That is 2.8 percent of the Gross Domestic Product. The software does it thus better than the Dutch economy as a whole

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The data were collected by Dialogic, commissioned by industry association ICT Netherlands and the Dutch Organization for Scientific Research (NWO).

Employment grew

The export of Dutch software is doubled compared to 3.1 billion four years ago. Employment also grew by 3 percent. In the software now more than 164,000 people. The number of companies in the Netherlands that software market has increased by 27 percent over the past four years. That there are now 44,000. This strong growth is also largely the result of ex-ICT workers who are now active as a freelancer. That man companies develop software for third parties, are actively involved in the implementation and testing of software and the management and maintenance of applications.

Software forms – like four years ago – the core business of the companies in the software sector. There, 40 percent of the labor capacity deployed. 28 percent of software companies brings one or more families own software on the market. In the software adhere more people engaged in research and development than sales or marketing.

Wide embrace cloud

Since 2010, there is a shift towards the provision of products and services based on a SaaS or cloud structure. Larger software companies remain there even when behind because of the technical and financial implications of the conversion of standard software licensed to a pay per use model. Young and start software companies are increasingly offering exclusively on SaaS and cloud-based products.

The attention to security of software is increasing. Large and medium software companies have increased their investments in security. Because many companies are thinking to keep up with the development of mobile applications working in the coming years that also brings extra attention to security with it.

CBS does not count all the software you

The software is greater than the statistics of the CBS show. In practice, almost a quarter of the software in the Netherlands takes place in companies that should also be considered. Until the software by CBS If the sales value of those companies is counted then runs to the total turnover of 29.1 billion euros and added value to 20.7 billion euros. That is 3.4 percent of GDP. In addition, software plays an increasingly important role in other economic sectors such as finance and logistics.

More about the research of Dialogic in the magazine Automatiseringsgids next Thursday (number 16)