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Anurag Agrawal

Business context at the forefront of SMB Cloud adoption driver

The first step in understanding if a particular type of technology will be important to a market is to understand why it might be important: how can the technology meaningfully address the business needs within the target community? This begs in turn a more fundamental question – what are these needs?

Techaisle’s recent SMB Cloud Adoption survey shows that the top ten business issues identified by SMBs align with well-recognized cloud attributes or applications. For example, cloud is seen as a way of delivering improved automation to a very wide range of functions, within IT and across the business as a whole; these solutions improve processes, which in turn will improve production and support of products. Cloud also supports key collaborative technologies (notably, mobility and file exchange), which have a positive impact on productivity, and cloud is viewed as the primary platform for ‘systems of engagement’ that help businesses attract and retain new customers. Cloud encompasses many different types of offerings, which deliver benefits that align with SMB needs.

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Similar observations are made regarding the challenges faced by small and midmarket businesses.

Anurag Agrawal

New Research – Enterprise Cloud Adoption Trends

The rigor in data collection, the depth in data analysis and the accuracy in forward looking insights that Techaisle brings in its small business & midmarket research has extended to enterprise. Techaisle’s US Enterprise Cloud Adoption Trends provides an in-depth and definitive look into the state of cloud adoption within large businesses.

  1. Only 18% of US enterprises have mature cloud adoption and are optimizing usages; 36% have a cautious approach to cloud. Smaller size large enterprises have reached maturity stage whereas larger sized enterprises have ad hoc approach to cloud
  2. In 92% of US enterprises, IT has a voice on the Board and helps drive the direction of the business rather than business deciding IT needs
  3. Top IT challenge is implementing new strategic IT applications to improve organization’s competitiveness; 74% believe that investments in cloud increases their competitiveness
  4. Greatest benefit of cloud is the ability to launch new products and services
  5. 61% want seamless integration with on-premise systems
  6. For 65% of US enterprises, security and regulatory compliance is the biggest challenge in developing strategies for cloud adoption
  7. In 60% of enterprises data sovereignty and privacy are preventing acceleration of cloud
  8. 75% of US enterprises have adopted Hybrid cloud but the largest penetration growth is expected in the use of public cloud
  9. 74% are using Amazon AWS but Microsoft Azure is not far behind at 65%
  10. 20% of US enterprises use all three types of cloud deployment – private, public and hybrid but the future looks very different

The research deliverable covers several topics including:

  • Top 10 Enterprise IT challenges & business issues
  • Enterprise Cloud adoption maturity – ad hoc to mature
  • Greatest benefits of using Cloud
  • Factors driving cloud adoption strategy
  • Key attributes of a good cloud solution
  • Challenges in developing strategies for cloud adoption
  • Factors preventing Enterprises from accelerating cloud adoption
  • Current & Planned adoption of services, type of deployment & workloads
  • Current & planned cloud applications
  • Enterprise cloud best practices - hybrid cloud, hybrid IT
  • Enterprise cloud security best practices
  • Use of public cloud within enterprises
  • Benefits of Public Cloud adoption
  • Top drivers of Public Cloud adoption
  • Key challenges in implementing public cloud
  • Workloads being transferred to Public Cloud
  • Key Industry segments using Public Cloud services to derive its benefits
  • Types and brands of public Cloud platform being used - Amazon AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud, IBM SoftLayer
  • Comparative analysis of AWS, Azure, Google, SoftLayer
  • Influencing the Cloud buyer, mapping the buyer’s journey
  • Influencing the C-Suite

The Techaisle research contains a wealth of data that marketers can use to understand cloud adoption within the US enterprises and build IT buyer-centric marketing initiatives.

 

Anurag Agrawal

2016 Top 10 SMB & MidMarket Business Issues, IT Challenges, IT Priorities

It is here. Techaisle's 2016 Top 10 SMB and Midmarket IT Priorities, Business Issues and IT Challenges. 

Techaisle's recently completed survey of SMBs and Mid-market companies reveals the following Top 10 IT Priorities, IT Challenges and Business Issues that the IT and Business Decision makers are facing in 2016. In its detailed global SMB and Midmarket survey Techaisle investigated 14 different technology areas and a lot more sub-technologies, 19 different IT challenges and 19 different business issues.

2016 Top 10 SMB Business Issues, IT Challenges, IT Priorities

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