{"id":5524,"date":"2015-07-23T07:00:11","date_gmt":"2015-07-23T15:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/formtek.com\/blog\/?p=5524"},"modified":"2015-06-09T06:53:03","modified_gmt":"2015-06-09T14:53:03","slug":"cloud-computing-executives-believe-that-the-cloud-is-accelerating-innovation-and-productivity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/formtek.com\/blog\/cloud-computing-executives-believe-that-the-cloud-is-accelerating-innovation-and-productivity\/","title":{"rendered":"Cloud Computing:  Executives Believe that the Cloud is Accelerating Innovation and Productivity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In an SAP-sponsored report, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oxfordeconomics.com\/infographics\/cloud-grows-up\" target=\"_blank\">Oxford Economics found<\/a> that:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>69 percent of organizations are expected to make medium-sized to large investments in the cloud over the next three years<\/li>\n<li>44 percent of enterprises are using the cloud to help create new business models<\/li>\n<li>32 percent of enterprises are using the cloud to help manage their supply chains, and this is expected to grow quickly<\/li>\n<li>59 percent say that they use the cloud to help perform analytics with their data<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The report found that the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oxfordeconomics.com\/infographics\/clouds-enduring-promise\" target=\"_blank\">three areas<\/a> expected to see some of the most new activity by enterprises over the next three years include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Top-line growth<\/li>\n<li>Employee collaboration<\/li>\n<li>Supply Chain<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cloudwf.com\/speaker\/rob-glickman\/\" target=\"_blank\">Rob Glickman<\/a>, vice president of Cloud and Line-of-Business Marketing at SAP,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.news-sap.com\/survey-says-cloud-grows-business-value-evident-investments-rise-sharply\/#sthash.mKCliPUR.dpuf\" target=\"_blank\">said that<\/a>, &#8220;as we\u2019ve long believed, the cloud is far more than a means to lower total cost of ownership; it\u2019s a platform for doing business in entirely new ways,\u201d said . \u201cThese survey findings confirm the trend. 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