BThaber Issue 1084 (English)

WEEKLY INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY AND ECONOMY NEWSPAPER

Turkish IT industry’s sole reference source ICT 500 Research was realized 17th time this year with “First 500 Gears of Turkey’s ICT Sector” concept. The winning company managers of the research carried out by M2S Research and Marketing Services received their awards at a ceremony held in CVK Park Hotel on July 28, 2016. The ceremony hosted Ministry of Transport, Maritime Affairs and Communications Deputy Undersecretary Galip Zerey, Information Technologies and Communication Authority (BTK) Former President Dr. Tayfun Acarer and many other leading and shaping names in the IT sector.

As the award ceremony was held shortly after a serious coup attempt which would have only brought darkness to Turkey, the common opinion of all participants in the industry was that the role of information technologies was huge in preventing the attempt.

Thanks to the Informatics 500 Research covering many data related to the development of the IT sector in Turkey, companies reach an opportunity to evaluate their own performances and see their own places in the competition. In particular, for corporate acquisition and informatics departments, rankings of this research play a decisive role in purchasing decisions.

The companies are being ranked according to their net

Turkey’s top 500 IT companies are announced

sales revenues in the research and the top 10 included Türk Telekom, Turkcell, Vodafone, İndeks Bilgisayar, Genpa, Teknosa, KVK Technology, Brightstar, Penta and Hewlett Packard Enterprise.

Information and communication technologies sector total size in 2015 grew 18% in Turkish Lira and reached 83,1 billion TL. Making up the total industry size as one of two main elements; information technologies grew 19% and reached 27,4 billion

TL. The communications technologies reached 55,7 billion TL with a growth of 17%. The market share of information technologies in the total market was 33%.

Information technologies hardware market reached 13 billion TL. Information technologies software market reached 9,7 billion TL and the information technology services market reached 4,7 billion TL. Communication technologies equipment market increased to 16,1 billion TL and communication

technologies electronic communications market reached 39,6 billion TL. Compared to the previous year in the category of information technologies, the highest growth rate belongs to service with 25,1%. Thus, the share of software and services industry in total information technologies has grown to 53%. Quantitative and qualitative increase of techno-cities contributed the increase of software industry positively.

According to the research

results, the sector is expected to grow in 2016 by 15 – 20 % in Turkish Liras and by 5 – 9% in US Dollars. R&D investments and innovations are said to be the most important factors in growth.

The employment in the sector in 2015 increased by 2,2% compared to the previous year and reached 113 thousand people.

Information technologies category has the share of 66% with 77 thousands 400 people employees in the total sector.

Internet of Things Report from Vodafone Turkey took place among the companies included in the research carried out with almost 1,100 companies during April and May by Circle Research. Other countries participating in the study are listed as Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, Germany, India, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Netherlands, South Africa, South Korea, Spain, United Arab

Vodafone Group released the fourth of traditional “IoT Barometer Report” research in which global innovations and investments on the Internet of Things (IOT) are examined.

Emirates, United Kingdom and the United States.

Three quarters of the companies participating in the “Vodafone IoT Barometer research

described IoT as a new industrial revolution that will change people’s business and personal lives.

76% of companies surveyed stated that they believe

usage of IoT technologies is critical to the future success of the organizations and nearly half of those companies said that they plan to include millions of devices and the network intelligence linked to the process in the next 2 years.

The report reached the conclusion that in 2016, IOT technologies will be a part of fundamental business processes.

Turkey has faith in SMEs! Ventures & Mentors League CEO Ufuk Batum emphasized on new ideas, designs, quality products & services being the only way to survive.

Ufuk Batum started his speech by explaining entrepreneurship and innovation concepts: “The transformation of the 1990s and the emergence of new technologies transformed the world in a much more competitive global village. Every country, company, ‘startup’ and even individuals live more integrated lives, work and produce. Thought patterns have changed; the business models have been renewed. Tomorrow, they all will be renewed again and again! The models startups implement and use today will be incompatible or fail tomorrow. Every moment, there is a need to ‘pivot’. Customer expectations are rising all the time. Being able to stand in an environment where there is such a tight competition is only possible through new ideas, designs, developing quality products and services. Being exceptional is no longer a luxury in every field from materials, informatics to space research and service industry. In this context, we need ‘nimble startups’ and SMEs.” The most valuable asset of entrepreneurship is qualified people Detailing from which needs Ventures & Mentors League was born and the services they offer; Batum stated that: “Our companies and SMEs are great in production, but in marketing, sales and business development, they are not so good. Startups, SMEs and companies come to us to receive support on opening to new markets and countries and to find investments. Techno-parks, TTOs and universities meet with new counselors, experts and mentors

We must make design a culture and habit of our industry Deputy Minister Hasan Ali Çelik, emphasizing that the Turkish Design Advisory Council brings together the design shareholders under one umbrella, stated: “This platform brings together the government, NGOs and professional organizations related to the design.” Science, Industry and Technology Ministry aims at increasing production in the industry both qualitatively and quantitatively. Çelik continues his speech: “We want to create a much more competitive industry with much higher added value than today. Enhancing the competitiveness of our industry,

through us in order to increase their capacity in the field of entrepreneurship.

The name of the network we have established is Ventures & Mentors League. It is a platform where initiatives, mentors and investors find each other and work together to contribute to Turkey.

The most valuable asset of entrepreneurship is qualified people. The following three concepts are essential: ‘Talent, climate, ecosystem’.

We also have a ‘DIAGNOSIS’ application for SMEs. We visit companies, have qualified meetings for half a day and take a meaningful picture of the company by asking approximately 180 questions in 5 basic and 21 subcategories. Then, we work together with the owners and managers of SMEs to reach a diagnosis.

We focus on profitability, sustainable growth and exports in a company.

Turkey has faith in SMEs!”

‘Turkish Design Advisory Council 14th Meeting’ was held at the ministry meeting rooms on August 3, with the participation of Science, Industry and Technology Deputy Minister Hasan Ali Çelik. one of the most important issues is design activities. We see Design as a tool that will directly and quickly have an impact on the competitiveness of our industry. When we look at the Entrepreneur Data System, we see it clearly.

Throughout the manufacturing industry, designer firms are getting higher operation profits

than those which do not create designs; they almost double the profit. Therefore, our efforts to make design activities more efficient in Turkey become more valuable. A good design gives a serious impetus to many different sectors from electronics to textile, cosmetics to automotive, from ceramics to furniture.”

Quick analysis brings right action Evam provides benefits to many sectors, especially finance and telecommunications in different countries as well as Turkey with its instant analysis algorithm of uninterrupted big data flow.

With an office in Seattle, the company is taking careful steps in the projects in Turkey as well as overseas.

As noted by Evam CEO Bülent Demirkurt, today integrating the big data into fast decision-making processes is more important than storing it in our day and age. On the other hand, Endeavor, supporting active entrepreneurs on a global basis, organized the 64th International Selection Panel on May 25 - 27, 2016 in Madrid and Evam also reached the title of Endeavor Entrepreneur Company in a panel with 36 entrepreneur companies, 36 panelists from 21 countries. Demirkurt shared

the following information: “This is our pride and an exciting opportunity. Since last year, we were in this difficult but quite enjoyable challenge. Businesses want to have a meeting and hear your story. Being selected as an Endeavor entrepreneur is increasing the interest of investors towards us. Our main job is to analyze and here we are replacing the data storage with action. There is continuously growing big data. Institutions analyze

it and reach a number of results, striving to make more storage and start using new tools for faster analysis.

As data grows, difficulties increase in many titles. In contrast, the analysis you carry out is no longer a realtime analysis, it gets an old identity. An analysis result should be reached not one week or one day later, much faster. Therefore, we move with an approach not ignoring the big data but make analysis on the flowing data as we call it ‘fast data’ and take actions upon; making analysis on ‘real data’ by replacing the big data, setting up segments accordingly and making related decisions.

We get instant data as the source of the algorithm implemented by us. But, we do not ignore the big data.

Integration in the institutions can be necessary. We are talking about analyzing the data in real time.”