Too many cooks in the Cloud-apps kitchen
January 31, 2015
Grazed from CBROnline. Author: James Nunns.
Centrix Software has revealed the results of its latest end-user report detailing cloud-based application usage. The research shows that cloud-based apps have flooded organisations, with nearly 90% of UK companies using them. The survey states that 78% of organisations have created a pro-active plan for cloud adoption in 2015. A third of all CIO’s named the growing cost of cloud subscriptions, managing the increasing number of cloud apps in use, and duplication of app functionality as their top three concerns.
Amongst other concerns were shadow IT (53%) and tracking and measuring usage. Perhaps surprising the survey reveals that the financial services and government sectors are the furthest behind in cloud app adoption…
20% of CIOs said they had no cloud-based app usage, while 24% of financial services CIOs were not planning to focus on cloud apps at all in 2015. However, there is still confusion over how the move to the cloud should be prioritised, which app’s are most suitable, who pays for the apps and what the risks are…
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