Business priorities when it comes to implementing new technologies: 48% delivering savings and ... mobile, and Big Data.
IT IS DRIVING BUSINESS CHANGE NOW MORE THAN EVER The EMC Forum Survey examines IT’s role as a driver of business change and the shift toward the megatrends of cloud, social, mobile, and Big Data.
THE NORDICS Total number of responses from IT decision makers:
501
IT DRIVING GROWTH
59%
see IT as a key business enabler
74%
see automation - such as software de ed storage - as critical to business growth
Business priorities when it comes to implementing new technologies:
48% automating processes
48% delivering savings and finding efficiencies
47% enhancing customer experience
IMPACT OF MEGATRENDS
(CLOUD, SOCIAL, MOBILE AND BIG DATA)
69%
expect megatrends to give their organization a competitive advantage
The top areas where respondents expect megatrends to impact their business:
42%
32%
41%
building new products and services
39%
improving customer experience streamlining business functions improving efficiencies
26%
believe that a hybrid of public and private cloud allows for greater agility and security
would be happy to outsource majority of applications only to the public cloud
71% now believe that the IT department of the future will act as the in-house provider of on-demand services
CHALLENGES FOR IT
56%
don’t believe IT has the skills to keep up in the next 1-2 years
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38%
believe that spend on technologies is increasingly moving outside of the IT department’s control
