The IT consulting market is experiencing rapid growth, covering both infrastructure services and business solutions consulting. Growth is particularly noticeable in the business-oriented IT consulting segment, where the number of projects has increased by more than 75% over the past two years.
Recovering from the turbulence of 2022
After the turmoil of 2022, the IT market began to return to stability in 2023. Companies realised the need to adapt to the new environment, in which Western vendors became unavailable. Therefore, businesses began to actively seek help from domestic IT partners to understand the variety of emerging Russian solutions. However, most of the new IT products were at the start-up stage, which required additional expertise and improvements.
2024: market maturity and consulting boom
By 2024, the situation has significantly stabilised. In infrastructure consulting, companies are increasingly turning to IT experts with complex import substitution tasks. Among the key issues they need to address are:
- selection of optimal domestic IT solutions;
- Developing a roadmap to meet regulatory requirements, especially for critical infrastructure (CII);
- planning for phased implementation of solutions;
- integration of new systems into the existing IT ecosystem;
- Data migration and data integrity;
- training of personnel to work with updated IT products.
The role of consulting in the digitalisation of business
IT consulting is in demand not only for infrastructure projects, but also for the implementation of business applications. Companies are increasingly requesting an audit of digital processes, based on the results of which a clear digitalisation strategy is formed. In addition, the introduction of domestic solutions is often accompanied by business process re-engineering. This is necessary not only to replace foreign products, but also to improve operational efficiency, which gives businesses tangible economic advantages.
The growing number of IT consulting projects indicates the maturity of the market and the fact that companies are ready not only to adapt to the changed conditions, but also to use new technologies to improve their competitiveness.