Stan Lepeak, Director, KPMG Global Sourcing Advisory Research

Over 400 of KPMG’s consultants across our global network of member firms have provided their insights from the ‘front lines’ of cloud computing usage for the inaugural KPMG global cloud Pulse survey. On the subject of cloud adoption levels globally, it was interesting to see that just seven percent of KPMG firms’ consultants indicated that their prospect and client accounts currently had no material interest in or activity around cloud computing – a strong endorsement for the view that cloud usage has become commonplace.

In addition, 57 percent of consultants indicated that client organizations were actively deploying or had already launched one or more cloud computing efforts. Another 33 percent of consultants responded that clients had an interest in cloud computing but had no material activity underway.

Cloud Adoption Levels

Key to interpreting the results on this point is the emphasis on the level of cloud activity being ‘material’. For example, if employees’ access to personal cloud-based e-mail constitutes cloud adoption, virtually all organizations are cloud users. The emphasis of this cloud Pulse, however, is on usage by larger sized organizations of core business and IT applications that historically were provided in a client-server or mainframe model, either by the client organization or by a third-party outsourcer.

Results from the cloud Pulse are based on surveys and interviews with advisors globally in KPMG member firms’ Management Consulting and Risk Consulting service lines.  The cloud Pulse complements and extends research findings from the cloud market study KPMG conducted with Forbes Insights. Further information about Pulse surveys is available at equaterra.com/pulse.

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