89% of enterprises in Cyprus have internet access

Almost 95% of enterprises in Cyprus are using a computer and 89% of them have access to the internet, according to data released by the Statistical Service of the Republic of Cyprus.
The data comes from the annual survey “Information and Communication Technologies Usage and E-Commerce in Enterprises 2008”. The survey was carried out for the fifth consecutive year in all the member states of the European Union.
The survey covered 1.437 enterprises with 10 or more employees in specific categories of economic activity. It covered all the government-controlled areas of the Republic of Cyprus (the northern part of the country continues to be under Turkish occupation). The data was collected with personal interviews.
According to the results of the survey, the percentage of enterprises using a computer in 2008 is 94,4% almost the same compared to 2007. All large (250 employees or more) and medium size enterprises (50-249 employees) are using computers.
The survey showed that 20% of enterprises have intranet and 89% of enterprises have access to the Internet. The Internet is used in all large and almost all medium enterprises. In small enterprises (10-49 employees) there is a continuous increase in Internet usage (from 82,3% in 2004 to 87,0% in 2008).
Moreover, the data shows that in recent years there has been a steady increase in broadband connections to the Internet. In 2008, 88,6% of the enterprises with access to the Internet had a broadband connection.
According to the survery, 47,9% of enterprises have a website, 11,1% of enterprises are using Automated Data Exchange mainly for exchanging information on products, but only 7,6% of enterprises are regularly sharing information electronically on the Supply Chain Management with either their suppliers or their customers.
Other results show that 18,8% of enterprises have an Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) software and 19,4% of enterprises have a Customer Relationship Management (CRM) software application for managing information about clients.
With regard to e-Commerce, an increase was observed in the percentage of enterprises that accepted orders via computer networks from 6,4% in 2007 to 7,1% in 2008.
Only in 9,4% of the enterprises that received electronic orders during 2007, the value of the turnover resulted from those orders represented more than 50% of their total turnover.