According to data provided by the Chamber of Software and Computer Services of Argentina (CESSI) , last year recorded sales of $ 32,653 million, of which $ 25,301 were for domestic market revenues and $ 7.352 million, the turnover of foreign sales.
According to the report CESSI, developing custom software, sales of own products, implementation and integration associated with these products accounted for more than 65% Sales in the sector over the past three years.
In line with what has been happening since 2003, the area of Financial Services including, among others, insurers and electronic payment services, remains the main client of the sector with over 27% of the turnover of software companies and computer services (SSI) in the past three years. This sector is followed by telecommunications companies with 18.4% and the SSI itself with 10.9% of total turnover. Then trade are located with 9.7% and manufacturing with 8.6%. In that sense, the main consumers of information technology solutions, by a wide margin with more than 52% of the turnover of the SSI sector were multinational companies. Followed with 17.5% SMEs and large international companies with 13.9%.
As for exports, as in previous years, United States stands out as the main destination, with 50% of total exports of SSI. Also important are the countries in the region such as Chile (9.4%), Mexico (7.3%), Uruguay (6% ), Brazil (5.6%) and Peru (4.4%). While Europe except Spain, receives 7.4% of exports. Over the past three years, the development of custom software explained on average more than half of revenues from abroad (58.8% of total).
The software industry has today 4288 companies in activity, 131.5% more than those in 2003. This growth is explained by the high degree of entrepreneurship that is in the sector, which is evident when considering that 75% companies are micro (up to nine employees) and 20% are small (between 10 and 49 employees).
This dynamism is reflected in job creation. During the 2014, employment grew by 5.4% over 2013 with a total of 77,400 workers. Between 2003 and 2014 employment grew at an annual rate of 13.8%. During 2013, the sector had registered an increase of employment of 5.7%.
Another aspect that highlights the pillars of expansion, is that 71% of companies ventured into R & D + i (Research, Development and Innovation), earmarking 6.6% of turnover and affecting 9% of staff. The objectives set by these companies were mostly for the development of new products (81%).
On the other hand, according to the report of CESSI, this year the companies have positive expectations and hope a significant increase in total sales (29.7%), income from abroad in dollars (16.3%) and employment (11.6%).
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