Cloud 2011 KPMG Global Pulse Survey
Interest in and Activity around Coud Computing
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Introduction
KPMG is pleased to release the findings from its inaugural 2011 Global Cloud Pulse survey. The cloud Pulse research program will provide insights into trends and projections in end-user organizations’ usage of cloud computing services. The learnings in this new cloud Pulse study are gleaned from KPMG professionals globally. These KPMG professionals are working closely with end-user organizations that are actively exploring or undertaking cloud computing and related initiatives. The cloud Pulse complements and extends findings from the recently released cloud market study conducted by KPMG and Forbes Insights.
The cloud Pulse is the newest member of the KPMG family of Pulse surveys. They focus on topics such as shared services and outsourcing, cloud , human resources (HR) transformation, and broader business market trending globally as well as in specific geographies such as China.
Since their inception in 2004, the advisor and service provider Pulse surveys have yielded insightful analyses of current and ongoing market trends in the use, deployment, and delivery of business and IT services. They capture changes in demand, usage levels, future adoption plans, and related key market indicators. They highlight the changes, and the direction of change, in the business and IT service markets as a whole. The surveys focus on where the market is going and how that direction is changing—or not—compared to prior quarters and years.
This first edition of the cloud Pulse survey reflects cloud service market activity during the first three quarters of 2011 as well as projections for the balance of 2011 and into 2012. KPMG will conduct the global cloud Pulse survey semiannually going forward.
Topics explored include:
- Cloud adoption levels by end-user organizations
- Buyer executive enthusiasm—or skepticism—for cloud computing
- Drivers for cloud adoption, including the potential for true business transformation
- Top functional areas for cloud adoption
- Buyer skills and capability levels to support cloud efforts and ambitions
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Key FIndings
Into the cloud, with caution.
Most KPMG client and prospect organizations have deployed or are actively pursuing cloud efforts. Most efforts, though, are often still in pilot mode for more comprehensive and business critical applications and processes.
Cost savings are table stakes in the cloud.
While achieving cost savings is a clear goal for cloud adoption, a broad range of functional, technical, and strategic factors are driving cloud efforts.
Cloud is an enabler of business transformation.
While the ultimate potential impact of cloud adoption is to drive fundamental business transformation, there is recognition that adopting cloud in itself does not create transformation.
Cloud adoption – IT leads the way.
Organizations are deploying cloud across a range of functional areas led by information technology.
Cloud offerings – sometimes old, sometimes new.
There is skepticism over the maturity and true newness of many vendor and service providers’ cloud offerings in the market as well as with purported potential benefits in areas such as cost savings.
Buyer cloud capabilities – a work in process.
Typical buyers still need to improve their skills relative to assessing, deploying, and managing cloud efforts, a gating factor to reaping cloud benefits. |
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Questions or comments regarding Pulse surveys should be directed to Stan Lepeak, Director of KPMG Sourcing Advisory Global Research, at slepeak@kpmg.com or +1 203-458-0677.
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