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A Global Industry, Built to Power Digital Transformation

Worldwide IT spending reached $5.61 trillion in 2025, with the global software segment alone worth $1.24 trillion and growing at close to 12% a year, driven by cloud, cybersecurity and generative AI adoption.

This scale spans every major hub:

United States: the world’s dominant tech market, accounting for 41% of global IT spending and 46% of global AI software spend.
United Kingdom: the world’s third largest tech ecosystem after the US and China, valued at around $1.2 trillion, and Europe’s most valuable tech economy.
Poland: one of Europe’s leading software development and IT outsourcing hubs, home to more than 60,000 tech companies serving international clients.
France: a fast growing tech ecosystem, expanding faster than the UK and Germany in venture backed software and AI startups.

Companies across the sector share the same challenge: integrating AI into products and operations fast enough to stay competitive, while managing cybersecurity risk, legacy systems and a persistent shortage of specialised talent. This is where ABGi operates, helping them secure R&D tax credits, drive operational excellence, and deploy digital and AI innovation.

Key figures for the sector

$ 5.61T

Worldwide IT spending in 2025

$ 1.24T

Global software market size in 2025

11.9%

Growth in global software spending in 2025

$ 650B

Global data centre spending expected in 2026, up more than 30% year on year

Key Strategic and Operational Challenges for the Sector

Cybersecurity and Data Protection

Defending increasingly complex digital infrastructure against a growing volume and sophistication of cyber threats.

Generative AI Integration

Embedding AI capabilities into products and internal operations fast enough to meet rising customer and market expectations.

Legacy System Modernisation

Migrating critical applications and infrastructure to the cloud while maintaining business continuity.

Talent and Skills Shortage

Attracting and retaining developers, data scientists and AI specialists in a highly competitive global market.

Scalability and Infrastructure Costs

Managing the rising cost and energy intensity of data centres and compute needed to support AI workloads.

Regulatory and Data Governance Complexity

Navigating evolving data protection, AI governance and cross border compliance requirements.

Focus on the 4 Strategic Levers

Innovation

Research and development of generative AI models, agentic systems and next generation software architectures.
Development of new cloud native and low code platforms to accelerate application delivery.
Innovation in developer tools and AI assisted coding to improve productivity and code quality.

Operations & Performance

Modernising legacy systems and migrating critical workloads to the cloud.
Optimising software development lifecycles through DevOps, automation and continuous delivery.
Building more resilient, scalable infrastructure to support growing AI and data workloads.

Technology

AI and machine learning embedded across products, from recommendation engines to predictive analytics.
Cybersecurity technologies to protect data, applications and increasingly complex digital infrastructure.
Cloud and edge computing to improve performance, scalability and cost efficiency.

ESG & Sustainability

Reducing the energy intensity of data centres and AI compute through more efficient architectures.
Extending hardware lifecycles and scaling e-waste recycling across the technology value chain.
Improving digital accessibility and inclusion across software products and services.

Our IT and software expert

ABGi’s experts deliver answers grounded in your industry environment, combining in depth sector knowledge, a forward looking view of the market, and a thorough analysis of every opportunity available to you.

Aurore TINANT, Scientific Expert

With a PhD in Astrophysics, specializing in image processing and analysis, she brings seven years of experience supporting clients in securing tax incentives for R&D. Drawing on her scientific expertise, she works primarily with companies in IT, Artificial Intelligence, image processing, and Physics & Space Sciences.