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CSO statistical release, 18 December 2014, 11am

Information Society Statistics - Enterprises

2014

Enterprise purchase of cloud computing services, 2014
		Ireland	EU-28
Enterprise purchase of any cloud computing services		28%	19%
of which	Storage of files	20%	10%
	E-mail	16%	12%
	Hosting the enterprise's database(s)	10%	7%
	Office software	10%	6%
	Finance or accounting software applications	7%	6%
	Customer Relationship Managemant (CRM) software	6%	4%
	Computing power to run the enterprise's own software	5%	3%
Enterprises could purchase more than one type of cloud computing service, hence the sum of the different cloud computing services type does not equal the total figure.

Purchases of cloud computing services by Irish Enterprises above the EU average

Figure 1 : Purchase of cloud computing services, 2014

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In 2014, 28% of Irish enterprises employing 10 or more persons purchased cloud computing services compared with an EU-28 average of 19%. At 20%, the most popular cloud computing service purchased by Irish enterprises was the storage of files, while 16% of enterprises purchased e-mail services. In terms of enterprises purchasing cloud computing services, Ireland ranked fifth in the EU-28. Finland had the largest percentage of enterprises in the EU-28 purchasing cloud computing services at 51%, 24% of enterprises in the United Kingdom purchased these services, while Romania had the lowest take up rate at 5%. See Headline Table, Figure 1 and Table 1.

Insufficient knowledge of cloud computing is the primary reason why enterprises do not use cloud computing services

Of those Irish enterprises who did not purchase cloud computing services, 30% of enterprises stated that this was due to insufficient knowledge. This compares with an EU-28 average of 33% of enterprises, while 21% of Irish enterprises did not purchase cloud computing services due to the high cost. This compares with an EU-28 average of 24% of enterprises. See Figure 2 and Table 2.

	EU-28	Ireland
Insufficient knowledge of cloud computing	33	30
High cost of buying cloud computing services	24	21
Risk of a security breach	28	16
Uncertainty about location of data	26	16
Uncertainty about legal issues	25	14

Use of social media by enterprises increases compared with 2013

In 2014, 61% of Irish enterprises used some type of social media such as Facebook, Twitter and YouTube. This compares with 48% of enterprises in 2013. Data for 2014 is only available for 25 of the EU-28 countries, however an EU-28 average has been calculated by Eurostat. It indicates that the use of social media has increased from 30% of EU-28 enterprises to 36% of EU-28 enterprises in 2014. In terms of enterprises using social media, Ireland ranked second in the EU-28 compared with third in 2013. Malta had the largest percentage of enterprises in the EU-28 using social media at 66%.

The primary method of using social media as a way of connecting with customers was the use of social networks, with 58% of Irish enterprises stating they used social networks such as Facebook. This compares with 46% of Irish enterprises using social networks in 2013. Comparable data from Eurostat show that the use of social networks by EU-28 enterprises has increased from 28% in 2013 to 33% in 2014. Irish enterprises increased their usage of blogs or microblogs such as Twitter with 27% of enterprises using this method in 2014 compared with 20% in 2013. The use of multimedia content sharing websites such as YouTube increased from 14% of enterprises in 2013 to 19% of enterprises in 2014. See Figure 3 and Table 3.

	EU-28 2013	Ireland 2013	EU-28 2014	Ireland 2014
Any social media	30	48	36	61
	0	0	0	0
Social networks	28	46	33	58
Enterprise's blogs or microblogs	10	20	12	27
Multimedia content sharing tools	11	14	12	19
Wiki based knowledge sharing tools	6	7	4	7

Half of large enterprises conduct their sales electronically

In 2014, 49% of large enterprises had e-Commerce sales which accounted for 44% of total sales of large enterprises. 23% of small enterprises had e-Commerce sales which accounted for 15% of small enterprises sales. 43% of medium sized enterprises had e-Commerce sales which accounted for 20% of total sales of medium sized enterprises. See Figure 4 and Table 12.

	Other sales	e-Commerce sales
Small (10 to 49)	85	15
Medium (50 to 249)	80	20
Large (250+)	56	44

69% of large enterprises made e-Commerce purchases in 2014

In 2014, 69% of large enterprises made e-Commerce purchases which accounted for 36% of all purchases made by large enterprises, while 54% of medium sized enterprises made e-Commerce purchases which accounted for 15% of total purchases for this size class. 45% of small enterprises made e-Commerce purchases which amounted to 15% of total purchases for small enterprises. See Figure 5 and Table 12.

	Other purchases	e-Commerce purchases
Small (10 to 49)	85	15
Medium (50 to 249)	85	15
Large (250+)	64	36

More enterprises engaged in e-Commerce purchases than sales

Across the three employment size classes, the proportion of enterprises that have made e-Commerce purchases is higher than those enterprises who have made e-Commerce sales, this difference is most pronounced with small enterprises. See Figure 6.

	% of enterprises with e-Commerce purchases	% of enterprises with e-Commerce sales
Small (10 to 49)	39.8	20.4
Medium (50 to 249)	46.8	40.4
Large (250+)	59.3	45

Services sector enterprises had the largest share of e-Commerce purchases by number of enterprises

In 2014, Services sector enterprises reported that 48% of enterprises had made e-Commerce purchases which accounted for 27% of total purchases in that sector. Comparable figures for Construction enterprises indicated that 45% of enterprises made e-Commerce purchases which accounted for 7% of total purchases in Construction, while 40% of Manufacturing enterprises reported making e-Commerce purchases which accounted for 24% of all purchases made by Manufacturing enterprises. See Figure 7 and Table 4.

	e-Commerce purchases as a percentage of total enterprises	e-Commerce purchases as a percentage of total purchases
Manufacturing	40	24
Construction	45	7
Selected services	48	27

Services sector had the largest share of e-Commerce sales by turnover

27% of Services enterprises reported e-Commerce sales which accounted for 35% of total turnover for that sector. The Manufacturing sector had the largest share of e-Commerce sales with 33% of enterprises reporting e-Commerce sales which accounted for 29% of all turnover generated in that sector. Just 5% of Construction enterprises made e-Commerce sales which accounted for 1% of total Construction turnover. Consistently across all sectors and size classes, the proportion of enterprises that had e-commerce purchases was higher than those making e-commerce sales. See Figure 8 and Table 4.

	e-Commerce sales as a percentage of total enterprises	e-Commerce sales as a percentage of total turnover
Manufacturing	33	29
Construction	5	1
Selected services	27	35

The CSO also collects data on ICT usage by Irish households. These results can be seen at http://cso.ie/shorturl.aspx/207

Show Table 1 EU enterprises use of cloud computing services, 2014

Table 1 EU enterprises use of cloud computing services, 2014
	%

EU - 28	19
Belgium	21
Bulgaria	8
Czech Republic	15
Denmark	38
Germany	11
Estonia	15
Ireland	28
Greece	8
Spain	14
France	12
Croatia	22
Italy	40
Cyprus	10
Latvia	6
Lithuania	13
Luxembourg	13
Hungary	8
Malta	17
Netherlands	28
Austria	12
Poland	6
Portugal	13
Romania	5
Slovenia	15
Slovakia	19
Finland	51
Sweden	39
United Kingdom	24
Source: http://epp.eurostat.ec.europa.eu/portal/page/portal/information_society/data/database

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Table 2 Factors preventing enterprises from buying cloud computing services, 2014
		%
	Ireland	EU-28¹

Insufficient knowledge of cloud computing	30	33
High cost of buying cloud computing services	21	24
Risk of a security breach	16	28
Uncertainty about location of data	16	26
Uncertainty about legal issues	14	25

¹EU-28 excluding Czech Republic, France, Malta and the United Kingdom. This question was optional.

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Table 3 Use of social media for enterprises, 2013 and 2014
				%
	Ireland 2013	EU-28 2013	Ireland 2014	EU-28 2014¹

Use of any social media	48	30	61	36
Use of social networks	46	28	58	33
Use of enterprise's blogs or microblogs	20	10	27	12
Use of Multimedia content sharing tools	14	11	19	12
Use of wiki based knowledge sharing tools	7	6	7	4

¹EU-28 excluding Belguim, Czech Republic and France. This question was optional.

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Show Table 4 Purchases and sales via e-Commerce, 2012 to 2014

Table 4 Purchases and sales via e-Commerce, 2012 to 2014
													%
		Manufacturing sectors			Construction sector			Selected services sectors			Total
		2012	2013	2014	2012	2013	2014	2012	2013	2014	2012	2013	2014

Use of e-Commerce for purchases (as % of total enterprises)
	by internet or EDI	54	44	40	41	37	45	51	47	48	51	46	47
	by internet	51	40	35	39	34	40	46	41	41	46	40	40
	by EDI	12	10	18	5	4	16	14	14	26	13	13	25

Use of e-Commerce for sales (as % of total enterprises)
	by internet or EDI	30	32	33	9	6	5	24	24	27	23	24	27
	by internet	20	15	17	7	4	4	21	19	23	20	18	22
	by EDI	15	20	26	2	4	4	6	10	17	7	11	18

Percentage of purchases by e-Commerce (as % of total purchases)
	by internet or EDI	25	32	24	4	5	7	33	27	27	30	29	26
	by internet	11	21	13	3	3	4	12	8	7	11	12	9
	by EDI	13	11	11	1	2	3	22	20	20	19	17	17

Percentage of sales by e-Commerce (as % of total turnover)
	by internet or EDI	10	27	29	1	1	1	28	35	35	21	31	32
	by internet	3	3	4	0	0	0	11	16	16	8	11	11
	by EDI	6	24	25	0	1	1	17	19	19	13	20	21

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Show Table 5 Purchases and sales via e-Commerce by sector, 2014

Table 5 Purchases and sales via e-Commerce by sector, 2014
																%
		Manufacturing sectors					Construction sector	Selected services sectors
	NACE Division¹	10-18	19-22	23-25	26-33	Total	41-43	45-47	49-53	55-56	58-63	68	69-74	77-82	Total	Total


Use of e-Commerce for purchases (as % of total enterprises)
	by internet or EDI	37	35	36	50	40	45	52	41	36	74	58	53	43	48	47
	by internet	33	33	32	40	35	40	39	38	34	70	57	49	39	41	40
	by EDI	12	18	18	27	18	16	36	23	14	31	19	17	15	26	25

Use of e-Commerce for sales (as % of total enterprises)
	by internet or EDI	43	27	20	31	33	5	27	38	33	31	10	13	22	27	27
	by internet	22	15	13	16	17	4	21	30	32	26	10	11	20	23	22
	by EDI	33	20	18	26	26	4	16	29	22	19	7	9	12	17	18

Percentage of purchases by e-Commerce (as % of total purchases)
	by internet or EDI	14	31	13	27	24	7	21	8	15	48	10	15	11	27	26
	by internet	9	18	12	7	13	4	4	6	8	14	7	6	7	7	9
	by EDI	5	12	1	20	11	3	17	2	6	34	2	8	5	20	17

Percentage of sales by e-Commerce (as % of total turnover)
	by internet or EDI	32	28	7	30	29	1	19	50	14	70	4	10	13	35	32
	by internet	11	1	2	4	4	0	8	35	10	29	2	3	9	16	11
	by EDI	22	27	6	26	25	1	11	15	5	41	2	7	4	19	21

¹ See Background notes for NACE Rev2 classification

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Table 6 Purchases via e-Commerce in enterprises, Ireland and EU-28, 2012 to 2014
			%
	2012	2013	2014
EU - 28	34	37	38
Belgium	23	21	32
Bulgaria	6	6	11
Czech Republic	44	50	54
Denmark	74	78	72
Germany	51	48	46
Estonia	13	14	32
Ireland	51	46	41
Greece	9	20	14
Spain	21	22	28
France	19	20	25
Croatia	22	:	30
Italy	35	42	40
Cyprus	18	13	15
Latvia	23	22	32
Lithuania	23	22	25
Luxembourg	41	46	50
Hungary	29	28	30
Malta	23	21	24
Netherlands	:	52	55
Austria	59	60	67
Poland	19	21	24
Portugal	20	18	25
Romania	8	20	:
Slovenia	26	30	26
Slovakia	18	28	16
Finland	50	47	51
Sweden	47	41	45
United Kingdom	53	60	51
Source: http://epp.eurostat.ec.europa.eu/portal/page/portal/information_society/data/database

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Table 7 Sales via e-Commerce in enterprises, Ireland and EU-28, 2012 to 2014
			%
	2012	2013	2014
EU - 28	16	17	18
Belgium	24	21	24
Bulgaria	7	7	9
Czech Republic	26	27	28
Denmark	29	30	28
Germany	24	26	25
Estonia	13	13	14
Ireland	23	24	24
Greece	9	10	10
Spain	14	14	18
France	14	14	15
Croatia	27	21	27
Italy	6	8	8
Cyprus	8	8	12
Latvia	9	10	9
Lithuania	17	22	19
Luxembourg	16	17	13
Hungary	12	13	13
Malta	18	18	19
Netherlands	20	22	24
Austria	16	16	17
Poland	11	11	12
Portugal	15	15	15
Romania	5	10	8
Slovenia	16	15	18
Slovakia	14	20	14
Finland	21	19	19
Sweden	27	26	26
United Kingdom	21	22	22
Source: http://epp.eurostat.ec.europa.eu/portal/page/portal/information_society/data/database

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Show Table 8 General findings of enterprise ICT survey, as a percentage of all enterprises, 2013 and 2014

Table 8 General findings of enterprise ICT survey, as a percentage of all enterprises, 2013 and 2014
									%
		Manufacturing sectors		Construction sector		Selected services sectors		Total
		2013	2014	2013	2014	2013	2014	2013	2014

General information about ICT systems
	Using a computer	100	100	98	99	95	98	96	98

Use of the internet
	Using the internet	99	99	98	99	94	97	95	98
	Have a website or homepage	89	88	70	76	73	71	75	73

Purposes of using the internet (as provider)
	Facilitating access to catalogues and price lists	44	45	22	19	38	36	38	36

Electronic sharing
	Uses an ERP software package	34	37	10	17	21	22	22	23
	Capture, store and make available information about clients	24	26	12	11	26	28	25	27
	Analyse information about clients for marketing purposes	23	23	9	10	26	27	25	26

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Table 9 General findings of enterprise ICT survey, as a percentage of all enterprises, by sector, 2014
																%
		Manufacturing sectors					Construction sector	Selected services sectors
	NACE Division¹	10-18	19-22	23-25	26-33	Total	41-43	45-47	49-53	55-56	58-63	68	69-74	77-82	Total	Total


General information about ICT systems
	Using a computer	99	99	100	100	100	99	99	99	96	100	95	99	99	98	98

Use of the internet
	Using the internet	98	99	100	100	99	99	98	99	93	100	95	99	98	97	98
	Have a website or homepage	87	90	91	87	88	76	63	73	70	93	75	83	80	71	73

Purposes of using the internet (as provider)
	Facilitating access to catalogues and price lists	46	54	41	43	45	19	37	27	46	38	32	19	28	36	36

Electronic sharing
	Uses an ERP software package	27	54	23	50	37	17	27	18	9	39	9	26	19	22	23
	Capture, store and make available information about clients	23	33	15	36	26	11	28	29	12	55	30	37	37	28	27
	Analyse information about clients for marketing purposes	22	31	13	29	23	10	29	27	16	52	25	28	31	27	26

¹ See Background notes for NACE Rev2 classification

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Table 10 External connection to the internet, as a percentage of all enterprises, by sector, 2013 and 2014
									%
		Manufacturing sectors		Construction sector		Selected services sectors		Total
		2013	2014	2013	2014	2013	2014	2013	2014

Type of external connection to the internet¹
	Modem/ISDN	21	17	23	16	19	18	19	18
	Broadband	98	98	95	97	94	95	95	95

Broadband connection as % of all enterprises¹
	DSL	76	62	76	61	76	61	76	61
	Other fixed wire connection	40	35	30	28	38	31	38	32
	Mobile broadband connection	68	68	71	79	58	61	61	63
	Other mobile connection	34	37	41	47	32	34	32	35

Enterprises with broadband
	Using ERP² software	34	37	10	17	22	23	23	24
	Using CRM³ software	28	29	15	14	34	34	32	32

	Purchases by internet or EDI	44	34	38	34	50	45	49	43
	Sales by internet or EDI	32	30	5	3	26	26	25	25

¹Enterprises may have more than one internet connection. Similarly, those with broadband may use more than one type of connection
²Enterprise Resource Planning
³Customer Relationship Management

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Table 11 External connection to the internet, as a percentage of all enterprises, by sector, 2014
																%
		Manufacturing sectors					Construction sector	Selected services
	NACE Division ¹	10-18	19-22	23-25	26-33	Total	41-43	45-47	49-53	55-56	58-63	68	69-74	77-82	Total	Total


Type of external connection to the internet²
Modem/ISDN		18	17	14	19	17	16	21	14	18	15	20	14	16	18	18
Broadband		96	99	98	100	98	97	96	98	90	98	95	97	95	95	95

Broadband connection as % of all enterprises²
DSL		63	59	54	67	62	61	64	59	56	62	54	63	62	61	61
Other fixed wire broadband connection		29	48	34	36	35	28	31	35	23	47	34	36	36	31	32
Mobile broadband connection		70	69	65	67	68	79	58	70	49	78	64	74	73	61	63
Other mobile connection		39	37	33	35	37	47	32	46	27	45	33	39	41	34	35

Enterprises with broadband
Using ERP³software		28	55	23	49	37	17	28	18	9	40	9	26	20	23	24
Using CRM⁴software		27	34	17	37	29	14	35	31	18	62	33	39	42	34	32
Purchases by internet or EDI		31	32	29	41	34	34	48	38	34	68	57	46	38	45	43
Sales by internet or EDI		41	26	16	27	30	3	25	33	35	30	11	10	20	26	25

¹See Background notes for NACE Rev2 classification
²Enterprises may have more than one internet connection. Similarly, those with broadband may use more than one type of connection
³Enterprise Resource Planning
⁴Customer Relationship Management

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Table 12 ICT usage by size of enterprise, 2014
	Small (10 to 49)	Medium (50 to 249)	Large (250+)

Unit	%	%	%
Enterprises using broadband	94.7	98.6	98.7
Enterprises using other fixed broadband connection	53.6	71.7	91.4
Enterprises using mobile broadband connection	59.5	75.0	87.5

Enterprises with e-Commerce purchases	45.4	53.5	68.8
e-Commerce purchases as a % of total purchases	14.5	15.3	36.0

Enterprises with e-Commerce sales	22.7	43.2	49.4
e-Commerce sales as a % of total sales	14.5	19.7	44.0

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Introduction

The ICT Enterprises Survey is conducted to provide harmonised enterprise statistics at EU level. The survey on ICT usage is carried out annually under EU Regulation (EC) No. 808/2004.

Summary of survey methodology

The ICT Enterprises Survey is conducted as a wholly electronic survey via the CSO’s e-form system, allowing sampled enterprises to complete and return the survey form electronically. Reminders are periodically sent to non-respondents throughout the year and a telephone campaign is also conducted to ensure that the response rate is sufficient for the survey. The 2014 response rate is 47.2%. Returned survey forms are verified and edited before the data is grossed up to the sample frame population.

A pilot survey was conducted in 2002 and a full annual survey began in 2003. Approximately 7,000 enterprises are surveyed in the first quarter of each year. The sample of enterprises is chosen from the CSO’s Business Register. The overall results are released by Eurostat on an EU-28 wide basis. The results presented in this release are from the 2014 survey. The results cover enterprises with ten or more persons engaged in the manufacturing, construction and selected services sectors. Enterprises operating in the following NACE Rev.2 classifications were included in the coverage of this survey. NACE coding is a classification system which groups enterprises according to their business activities. Each business activity category is assigned a unique NACE code.

NACE Rev.2 categories used in the ICT survey

Section C (10-33)

Manufacturing

Food, beverages, tobacco, textiles, wearing apparel, leather, wood, printing and paper products (10 to 18)

Petroleum, chemical, pharmaceutical, rubber and plastic products

(19 to 22)

Other non-metallic mineral products, basic metals and fabricated metal products (23 to 25)

Computer, electronic and other equipment, repairs and installation, other manufacturing (26 to 33)

Section D, E (35-39)

Electricity, gas and steam, water supply, sewerage and waste management

Section F (41-43)

Construction

Section G (45-47)

Wholesale and retail trade; repair of motor vehicles and motorcycles

Section H (49-53)

Transportation and storage

Section I (55-56)

Accommodation and food service activities

Section J (58-63)

Information and communication

Section L (68)

Real estate activities

Division M (69-74)

Section N (77-82)

Group ( 95.1)

Professional, scientific and technical activities (selected sectors)

Administrative and Support Service activities

Repair of computers

Results

Results are based on the survey of e-Commerce and ICT usage by enterprises which was conducted in the first half of 2014. This survey covers enterprises with 10 or more persons engaged in the manufacturing, construction and selected services sectors.

Eurostat tables

The enterprise survey of ICT and e-Commerce usage is carried out across all member countries of the EU-28. Each national country designs their own enterprise survey, using a template questionnaire issued by Eurostat, and incorporating some optional modules.

National results are transmitted to Eurostat annually and subsequently published by Eurostat in December of each year. Further information on Eurostat tables and comparable results across member countries of the EU-28 are available online @ http://epp.eurostat.ec.europa.eu/portal/page/portal/information_society/data/database

Glossary of Terms

Broadband: High-speed, always-on internet access running with a speed of greater than 128Kb/sec (Kilobytes per second).

Digital Subscriber Line (DSL): Digital Subscriber Line technologies are designed to increase bandwidth available over standard copper telephone wires. Includes IDSL, HDSL, SDSL, ADSL, RADSL, VDSL, DSL-Lite and xDSL.

Electronic Commerce (e-Commerce): Transactions conducted over IP (Internet Protocol) based networks and over other computer mediated networks. The goods and services are ordered over those networks, but the payment and ultimate delivery of the goods or service may be conducted on or offline. Orders received via telephone, facsimile and non-interactive e-mails are not counted as electronic commerce.

Electronic Data Interchange (EDI): Electronic exchange of forms, such as for orders, between geographically dispersed locations.

Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP): Enterprise Resource Planning consists of one or a set of software applications that integrate information and processes across the several business functions of the enterprise.

Extranet: A secure extension of an intranet that allows external users to access some parts of an organisation’s intranet.

Intranet: An internal company communications network using IP-based communications within an organisation.

Integrated Services Digital Network (ISDN): Integrated Services Digital Network is the digital version of the old telephone system. ISDN offers many services such as private virtual networks, high-speed facsimile (fax), video-conferencing and most importantly, high speed communications.

LAN: Local Area Network. This relates to your company’s computer network, usually within an office, building or closed geographical area.

Modem: Device that converts outgoing digital signals from a computer to analogue signals which can be transmitted via a conventional copper telephone line and which converts incoming analogue signals to digital.

Social Media: Use of social media refers to the enterprise’s use of applications based on internet technology or communication platforms for connecting, creating and exchanging content online with customers, suppliers, partners or within the enterprise. Enterprises using social media are considered to be those that have a user profile, an account or a user licence depending on the requirements of the social media type. Social networks e.g. Facebook, Linkedln, Xing, Viadeo, Yammer, etc; Blogs or microblogs e.g. Twitter; Multimedia content shared websites e.g. YouTube, Flickr, Picassa, SlideShare; Wiki based knowledge sharing sites e.g. Wikipedia.

Reference to third party brands, products and trademarks are for the sake of clarification and are not intended to promote the use of such products.

Member states of the EU-28

Austria

Belgium

Bulgaria

Croatia

Cyprus

Czech Republic

Denmark

Estonia

Finland

France

Germany

Greece

Hungary

Ireland

Italy

Latvia

Lithuania

Luxembourg

Malta

Netherlands

Poland

Portugal

Romania

Slovakia

Slovenia

Spain

Sweden

United Kingdom

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Information Society Statistics - Enterprises

2014

Purchases of cloud computing services by Irish Enterprises above the EU average

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