Cloud for Business Managers in Midsize Organisations: the Good, the Bad & the Ugly

[areeg samir]

This research set out to investigate the ways in which line of-business managers in mid-sized organizations across the world with revenues of £50 million to £499 million are using cloud apps in their departments. It explores their motivations for adopting cloud apps, how easily they are able to share information generated within the apps across the company and any problems they have encountered in this respect. The findings show that the adoption of cloud apps across the world is remarkably high and in all departments, but that integration problems are endemic. The key findings are summarized below.

The paper contents are:

1. Background & introduction
2. Research Methodology
3. Research Findings
• Use of cloud applications
• Reasons for using cloud applications
• Accessing cloud data from other departments [integration]
• Missed project deadlines
• Staff downtime episodes
• Abandoning cloud applications
• Cost of integrating cloud applications
• Issues associated with integration attempts
• Reasons for not getting the best out of cloud apps
• Cloud data security breaches
• Compliance difficulties due to the cloud
• Cloud hindering innovation
• Importance of integrating cloud applications
• Importance of cloud integration via mobile for senior staff
• Importance of 24 / 7 access to core business systems via mobile
• Importance of cloud integration via mobile for respondents
• Sales and marketing issues
• Formal cloud strategies
• Access to business applications
• Awareness of cloud subcontracting

To read the paper, please kind it in the attachment.

The paper by Oracle.