Last year, 2024, companies across various economic sectors invested approximately 4.88 trillion rubles in digital transformation.
According to Usergate's analytics department, these expenditures are growing at a rate of 27-28% per year. Yulia Kosova, head of strategic analytics at Usergate, told Vedomosti that this year, investment in digitalization is projected to increase to 6.1 trillion rubles.
Usergate reached these conclusions based on an analysis of data from 3.2 million companies of various sizes (large, medium, and small) across seven key industries: trade (wholesale and retail), mining, chemicals, finance, metallurgy, transportation, and energy. A company representative clarified that the analysis took into account such parameters as industry turnover, capital investments, and IT spending.
According to Kosova, the main financial flows are directed toward the development of the Internet of Things (IoT), artificial intelligence (AI), and automated process control systems (APCS).
About 5% of total digitalization spending goes toward information security (IS) solutions. According to the expert, the growth in investment is driven not only by the increasing number of implementations but also by the increasing complexity of IT infrastructure, as well as increased requirements for the resilience and manageability of digital systems.
Sectors such as electrical engineering, finance, transportation, and IT are most actively increasing their investment in digital technologies, Kosova noted. This is due to their high dependence on business continuity and the importance of data, as digitalization directly contributes to increased operational efficiency.