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Survey Analysis: Geographic Differences Among Buyers — Cloud Services Planning, Adoption and Strategy, 2015

Published: 27 February 2015

ID: G00270917

Analyst(s): Ed Anderson , Fred Ng

Summary

Cloud is playing a bigger role in organizations' IT strategies worldwide. Sales enablement leaders must understand the differences in cloud users' readiness to invest, how they should allocate resources and investment dollars, and what types of cloud services have higher chances of gaining adoption.

Table Of Contents

Survey Objective

Data Insights

  • Key Roles and Positions in Cloud Services Purchasing
    • Implications
  • Adoption Rates: When, What and How Much?
    • Implications
  • Cloud Deployment Model Preferences
    • Implications
  • Timing of Cloud Adoption Plans
    • Implications
    • Implications
    • Implications
  • Cloud Usage Preferences
    • Implications
    • Implications
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  • When Cloud SaaS Spending Will Make Up Half of Users' Total Software Applications Spending
    • Implications
  • Methodology
  • Definitions

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