Cloud Computing

Google Report Reveals SaaS Impact on Enterprise IT

Last week, Google released its 2009 Communications Intelligence Report, covering the impact and current state of cloud applications/SaaS on IT. It was based on a survey of 1125 IT decision makers and perhaps predictably, it offered a positive commentary and outlook for cloud applications. That said, I think this report raised a number of interesting, sometimes surprising points that are worthy of note -

Companies adopt SaaS for a variety of reasons - Although the report calls out “ease of use” as the primary motivation for adopting SaaS, it only garnered 22% of the responses. “Product effectiveness” and “product features” followed with 15% each.

The report’s bottom line conclusion? - cloud applications are now clearly mainstream. If you’re interested, you can read the entire report here. Read more at www.ebizq.net