Hybrid Cloud Becomes a Strategic Imperative, According to an Insight-sponsored Report by Harvard Business Review Analytic Ser...
June 08 2017 - 8:30AM
Cloud computing is no longer a decision made solely for tactical
reasons like cost savings or ease of implementation. Key strategic
business demands—the need for greater business agility, data
capabilities, and better customer and user experiences—are
compelling companies to embrace cloud systems, according to the
Insight-sponsored report by Harvard Business Review Analytic
Services.
Respondents are nearly split when it comes to
hybrid and private cloud adoption, while total public cloud usage
captures only a fraction of the market:
- Hybrid approach with systems hosted in both the public and
private clouds (42 percent)
- Host most of their systems in a private cloud (40 percent)
- Host most in the public cloud (13 percent)
The types of systems most likely to reside in the
cloud, include:
- Email and communication tools (54 percent)
- Billing and invoicing (29 percent)
- Business intelligence (29 percent)
- Payroll (26 percent)
- Customer service (24 percent)
- Project management (24 percent)
Cloud improves company
performance
“A company’s IT environment should work for them by
enabling them to both run and innovate. Large and small to
mid-sized companies need to focus on managing and modernizing their
IT infrastructure, so that it becomes a transformative part of
their business that can directly improve results,” said David
Lewerke, Director, Hybrid Cloud Consulting Practice at Insight.
“While we knew there were a number of benefits, we wanted to better
understand from respondents exactly how cloud systems were
impacting their business outcomes.”
The benefits of cloud adoption are even more
pronounced among small to mid-sized companies:
|
Large companies |
Small to mid-sized companies |
Time to market |
15 percent |
47 percent |
Business/revenue/profit growth |
17 percent |
38 percent |
End customer experience |
32 percent |
48 percent |
Ability to manage security |
26 percent |
39 percent |
Ability to mitigate risk |
28 percent |
39 percent |
For all respondents, nearly half (49 percent) say
cloud or hybrid cloud systems have significantly improved
collaboration, followed by business agility and flexibility (45
percent), their ability to manage, analyze, act on and share data
(43 percent) and their ability to empower employees and create a
better user experience (42 percent).
Methodology
A total of 347 respondents were drawn from the
Harvard Business Review audience of readers (magazine/ enewsletter
readers, customers, HBR.org users). Twenty-nine percent of
respondents were executive management or board members, 28 percent
were senior management; 31 percent were middle management; 12
percent came from other grades.
To learn more about future-proofing your IT
environment through hybrid cloud, view our Livestream on Microsoft
Azure Hybrid Cloud Solutions.
For more information on Insight,
visit www.insight.com or call 1.800.INSIGHT.
About Insight
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