Oracle Survey reveals irrespective of cloud adoption status, 74% of Indian respondent companies are prepared to take the leap into cloud
Oracle announced the results of a “Cloud for Business Managers: the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly” report, which found that the majority of businesses around the world have not yet adequately integrated their cloud applications across their business functions. Due to this, many have reported operational inefficiencies and challenges around innovation.
The independent market research report by Dynamic Markets interviewed 1,355 senior decision makers from businesses globally. Respondents were selected from a wide range of business functions including R&D, Sales/Commerce/E-commerce, Marketing, CRM, Finance and HR.
The report found that in India :
Irrespective of an organization’s cloud adoption status, 74% companies have a cloud strategy in place and are prepared to take the leap into cloud.
78% of companies that use cloud applications say their ability to innovate using their cloud apps has been hindered in some way. The research shows that the main hindrance is the inability to integrate the cloud app with other software and companies have abandoned roughly 1 cloud app a year due to integration problems. Globally this number is 75%
Integration problems are causing staff downtime in departments that do not even use cloud apps. In fact, according to the respondents:
25% said that their companies tried using cloud apps, attempted integration and were completely unsuccessful in their efforts
47% believed they were only partially successful
38% did not anticipate the integration issues when the company first started using the cloud apps
31% put the company off using cloud apps because of integration troubles
“Organizations are looking to the cloud to change not only how they buy and consume IT, but also draw a clear line between technology and business impact. However, according to our survey, integration and usability come to the forefront as the key issues troubling Indian CIOs when it comes to cloud,” said Shailender Kumar, VP (Fusion Middleware), Oracle India.
