The State of Cloud-Driven Transformation by Harvard Business Review Analytic Services
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Most organizations are expanding their use of cloud at an accelerated pace to maintain their competitive edge, accelerate innovation and transform interactions with customers, employees and partners. The COVID-19 pandemic has further increased the speed and scale of cloud adoption. But while cloud is top-of-mind for everyone, there is still work to be done to manage cloud complexity.
In this Harvard Business Review Analytic Services report on The State of Cloud-Driven Transformation, learn how organizations are faring in their cloud journeys, and how your organization can build a foundation for greater agility, security, efficiency and innovation.
Top findings include:
• 83% of survey respondents say that cloud is very or extremely important to their organizations’ future strategy and growth
• 69% say that 60% or more of their organizations’ infrastructure and applications will be in the cloud in two years
• 66% say that leveraging real-time data analytics (enabled by artificial intelligence or machine learning) is very or extremely important to monitoring and gaining insights across cloud services, applications and infrastructure