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Enterprise Cloud Adoption Facing the Pandemic: Accenture

In recent years, more and more companies have chosen to migrate to the cloud to improve their elasticity, efficiency and innovation. The reason, businesses need to adapt to a rapidly evolving economy, which since 2020 has been driven by the COVID-19 pandemic.

Accenture recognizes that being “Cloud First” is key to surviving in an era of remote working with social distance, online commerce and a challenging business environment. Businesses have been rewarded for investing in the cloud, but the process also involves some hurdles that must be overcome to stand out and achieve desired success.

Here are some key figures; 37% of organizations have fully achieved the results they expected with cloud adoption. On the other hand, 45% of companies are very satisfied with the results of the cloud. Additionally, 29% of companies are sure that their organization’s cloud migration initiatives will generate the expected results in the expected time.

Trust in the cloud

Overall, cloud adopters are seeing real benefits, namely increased cost efficiencies, better service levels, and faster time to market. Many of them have been able to reimagine their business models and bring resilience to their companies.

Those who use managed cloud services “at a high level” are more likely to fully reap the benefits they seek. Among the characteristics that stand out in high cloud adopters are the following: They are large companies with $ 10 billion or more in revenue and are often based in North America or Latin America. Such organizations are witnessing increased speed to market and service level benefits.

Obstacles to the cloud

According to a survey conducted by Accenture, the most common setbacks that companies have faced in relation to cloud adoption are: “security and compliance risk”, “application expansion and legacy infrastructure” and “misalignment between IT and the business. ” So special attention should be paid to them.

The obstacles will vary according to the level of commitment that each company has to carry out the adaptation to the cloud. But concern about security is one of the main barriers, that is, the sovereignty of your data, a lack of skills and the very complexity of the business, among others. Without a doubt, organizations must incorporate new ways of working, as well as develop new roles and skills to achieve a successful adoption of the cloud.

Key points for cloud adopters

The focus on business value works to develop a cloud strategy linked to economic business cases and thus identify opportunities for increased revenue and cost efficiencies while objectives are aligned.

Likewise, implementing talent preparation programs and new operating models is necessary for workforce management and cultural change. The way people work and the way they meet accelerating changes in needs must be transformed.

Companies need to have specific knowledge of data and AI, if necessary, they can hire third parties to perform cloud management. In order for your operations to flow properly and the cloud migration to be successful. That is, partnering for success, while leveraging the skills and experience of the right partners.

To help companies drive cloud adoption in the country and maximize its value, Accenture Mexico launched the, a group made up of the most important cloud players. Through sharing and discussing valuable issues on the digital transformation agenda; The community aims to be a reference for the business sector in our country of the latest technologies and trends that improve the implementation of cloud technology.

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