Session Summary: From streamlining entire value chains to making customer relationships the center of a business, cloud computing is having a revolutionary impact on enterprises today. Across the manufacturing and services spectrum, cloud-based platforms, applications, services and strategies are providing enterprises with greater flexibility in defining their next-generation business models. Cloud platforms are also providing asset-intensive industries including manufacturing with greater analytical insight into how they can stay competitive from a cost- and time-to-market standpoint.

1. Predicting Cloud
Computing
Adoption In The
Enterprise, 2015
Louis Columbus
Forbes, iBASEt

2. Photo credit: NASA/Sandra Joseph, Kevin O'Connell
Why Cloud Adoption Is Accelerating In The Enterprise
Agility, time-to-
market & speed
57%
Alinging IT to
Business Strategies
18%
Keep IT Centralized
4%
Increase
responsiveness and
quality of service
9%
Reduce costs
10%
Other
2%
FACTORS DRIVING CLOUD ADOPTION - Q1, 2015
(Source: Software Strategies Cloud Adoption Survey, Q1, 2015; Gartner, IDC)

3. Source: Enterprise software spend to reach $620 billion in 2015: Forrester http://www.zdnet.com/article/enterprise-software-spend-
to-reach-620-billion-in-2015-forrester/
Key Catalysts of Cloud Computing Growth In the Enterprise
• 84% of enterprises expect to have multimode clouds
by 2017 (hybrid, public and private cloud services).
The challenge is to create a scalable system of
record & engagement.
• 81% of U.S.-based companies are using some form
of cloud services today, prioritizing marketing (45%),
sales (43% and HR (40%).
• 17% of CIOs are piloting private clouds, 1% are
piloting hybrid cloud architectures & 30% are
actively researching them.
• Hybrid cloud is trailing private cloud adoption by 3+
years or more.

4. Source: "Riding the Cloud Computing Wave; RHT down to Sell," Goldman, 13 Jan 2015.
Key Catalysts of Cloud Computing Growth In the Enterprise

5. Majority of enterprise mobile projects will leverage cloud services
Mobile App
Developer’s View
Cloud Platform
Developer’s View
Customer View
Source: Gartner Webinar, When Mobile Meets the Cloud. May 22, 2014

6. Cloud-based Mobile Platforms Are Driving Productivity & Sales Growth

7. Comparing Enterprise Cloud And BI & Analytics Growth
2015 CIO
magazine
Tech Poll:
Tech
Priorities
(n=211)

8. Thank You For Your Time
Twitter: @LouisColumbus
E-mail: Louiscolumbus@yahoo.com