The Australian IT Industry

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Literature Review - IT industry in Australia, growth, issues, and challenges – Executive summary: IT industry is slowly developing in Australia. The country’s main economy is controlled by industries like mining and services. IT is slowly gaining importance as people are studying software development courses. Several companies have also opened offices. However, unlike Japan, China and India, Australia rarely gets projects from companies like IBM, Cognizant, and Oracle etc. Even when these companies outsource projects they usually share specialised need for people with specialised skill. Hence professionals rarely get absorbed in the domain. Another problem with IT sector in Australia lies in refusing to accept people from other domains such …show more content…

The researcher has conducted a survey and collected data from respondents selected from IT sector. A comparative study on data collected in 2011 and 2014 has been evaluated by the researcher and underpinned that in 2014 respondents in IT sector under the age of 30 was only 6% in comparison to the survey data collected in 2011 where it showed that 18% employees in the department was below 30 years of age. The chart below clearly shows a steep decline of 66% in just three years. It has been further pointed out by economists and industry analysts in Australia that companies or market leaders like Microsoft, Google and HP generally run key software oriented operations in other countries and have set up a different operation in the respective region and they generally have different hiring requirements. IT is Australia generally focuses …show more content…

Jobs in computer system design increased. This area demanded skill in programming and software development and in 2008 experienced a sudden surge. As per the Australian App Economy report Australia could experience significant growth in the mobile computing sector as more people are interested in the domain. Besides this industry analysts such as Dr Mandel further reported that Australia is equipped to absorb to new technologies at a rapid pace and exploring the growth trend he has further mentioned that Australia is expected to perform well and thus he named it “the app economy” as this domain comprises of app developers from the IT sector. At present about 9.4 per cent of Australian tech jobs include people working in app development activity. Thus since the health of app development is good, if the other industries like retail, finance, entertainment accepts digital development and make use of innovation on a regular basis, the particular area in IT would reach new heights by 2020. App economy is contributing immensely and a report from Apple clearly highlights that the App Store has successfully added about 70,000 jobs in the Australian

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