“Over the medium term income growth will support the retail hardware market , while improvements to telecommunications infrastructure is forecast to accelerate the development of Romania as an outsourcing and cloud computing market,” the quarterly report notes.
However, regional economic and security instability could derail this bullish outlook, but the wider region could also drive the market to a higher growth trajectory, it adds.
BMI estimates computer hardware sales will rise to RON2.9 billion this year, from RON2.8 billion last year and a return to growth for desktop and notebook sales will supplement strong growth in tablet volumes in 2014.
Software sales are seen growing to RON1.2 billion from RON1.1 billion last year.
Piracy continues to hold back growth rates, but there will be a boost to software spending due to OS upgrades following the withdrawal of support for XP in April 2014, the BMI report notes.