According to Alexander Chepurenko, professor

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According to him, this may be due to several factors. "The IT sector is significantly less dependent on logistics problems. The reduction in air travel during the lockdown has hit supply chains for "physical" businesses hard: it has become more difficult to transport machine tools, household goods, and tools. Of course, the colombia cell phone number list IT sector also purchases equipment - servers, routers - but its impact on business is significantly lower. The restructuring of the service sector has required new IT solutions. Examples include remote communication services Zoom and Kontur.Tolk, taxi services, courier delivery, etc. Another reason is that more monetization methods are available to IT companies. If ordinary businesses mainly receive income from the direct sale of their goods and services, then IT businesses can use subscriptions, referral programs, and advertising monetization," Vladimir Savelyev explained.

at the Department of Economic Sociology of the Department of Sociology of the Faculty of Social Sciences at the National Research University Higher School of Economics, the fact that the IT segment showed a record number of new enterprises from spring to autumn 2022 is due to the fact that, in principle, after the start of the pandemic, digitalization has become an absolute imperative for any business and for all the main segments of their activities - from procurement to organizing the work of personnel, from reporting and ongoing analytics to sales and promotion of products.

"In addition, this type of activity does not require high specific costs for equipment and other types of material assets. SMEs will feel differently. It may well be that by the end of the year, autumn - early winter, we will see a reduction in the number of such SMEs, due to mobilization and subsequent decisions of many owners and individual entrepreneurs to relocate. But someone will be able to integrate into the chains of sales or supply of digital solutions for large businesses and government agencies and will develop," notes Alexander Chepurenko.

Pavel Korostelev, Head of the Product Promotion Department at Code Bezopasnosti, notes that the degree of influence of the small and medium business segment on the IT market depends on what services small and medium businesses consume, because the consumption profile is very different compared to large businesses. "So, large companies buy IT infrastructure in wagons, while small and medium ones look more at clouds and individual services, plus they are, as a rule, less mature in terms of information security.

"As for market share, we have not come across any significant studies on this topic, but the market is generally skewed towards large customers, especially corporations and government organizations," says Pavel Korostelev.

According to him, the business landscape has changed significantly, so new services are needed, protection from sanctions is needed - for example, a company falls under restrictions, and another one appears in its place. "In general, when it is necessary to adapt the economy to such difficult external conditions, and now the Russian economy is in a state of shock, it is small and medium-sized businesses that "pull it out", as the most mobile part. Large companies will join later, when investments are needed and it is necessary to scale growth," says the head of the product promotion department of the company "Security Code".