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Is Your Company Ready for Cloud: Choosing the Best Cloud Adoption Strategy for Your Business
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Is Your Company Ready for Cloud: Choosing the Best Cloud Adoption Strategy for Your Business

by Pamela K. Isom, Kerrie Holley
June 2012
Intermediate to advanced
384 pages
9h 15m
English
IBM Press
Content preview from Is Your Company Ready for Cloud: Choosing the Best Cloud Adoption Strategy for Your Business

2. Business Value of Incorporating Cloud into Your EA

Sharon and her team conducted cloud adoption interviews with C-suite executives as well as business and IT leaders at Distributors, Inc., to further understand their business objectives and requirements. Findings revealed the desire for cloud-sourcing was driven by the lack of in-house resources to deliver products and services to market when needed. Issues pertaining to business and IT performance levels were shared, and high frustration levels were evident among some of the interviewees.

Some of the interviewees displayed confidence that cloud-sourcing was the way to go, but this information was based solely on what they read and from some competitor testimonials. IT leaders were in agreement ...

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