Although there are not great differences in what strategic and nonstrategic buyers consider the most important business drivers for cloud adoption, strategic buyers equate business agility and competitive advantage with the… Read more »
Manufacturing, accounting, and other back office applications will migrate to the cloud slower than business analytics in the next 12 to 24 months. Strategic adopters are using cloud-based analytics to complement new business. Read more »
Strategic cloud buyers look for opportunities to use cloud across the enterprise in the next 12 to 24 months. They are not merely targeted or opportunistic users, drawn toward one specific cloud application. Read more »
Although both strategic and nonstrategic buyers anticipate increasing their use of cloud technologies in the next two years, the strategic buyers will maintain their significant lead in terms of the variety… Read more »
The plurality of IT decision makers at big U.S. companies are using the cloud for necessary, but non-revenue generating IT functions in the near term. However, nearly 30 percent are strategic… Read more »
A set of economic, political, and societal forces is currently causing profound changes in work and in the relationship between workers and the businesses that benefit from their labor. Read more »
By pooling their business intelligence data through specialized service providers, companies can potentially get access to new insights and benchmarks from the collective data. Read more »