Stan Lepeak, Director, Global Research, Management Consulting Research on the subject of emerging trends in cloud computing usage for KPMG’s global cloud Pulse survey looked at what is driving the adoption of cloud computing by end-user organizations. A primary driver typically cited in the market today is reducing IT costs and this was supported by [...]
Stan Lepeak, Director, 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 [...]
Steve Salmon, Global Cloud Centre of Excellence Lead, KPMG in the UK Karl Flinders of Computer Weekly makes an interesting observation on his blog on the subject of the adoption of cloud services when he writes, “A year ago everybody was talking about the cloud. But there was not much context to what they were [...]
Dave Brown, Principal, Advisory Services When you established your IT outsourcing agreement, you probably did the deal and put it in a drawer, so it may have been a few years since you’ve thought about IT contracts. But now that your contract is coming up for renewal, how can you make the most of the [...]
Stan Lepeak, Director, Global Sourcing Advisory Research KPMG recently released a comprehensive global market study on cloud computing adoption and usage. On November 15th, I will be leading a webcast discussion related to the study. An initial analysis of the results identifies some interesting findings. One of them is the disparity of cloud services adoption [...]
Stan Lepeak, Director, Global Sourcing Advisory Research KPMG will release the first edition of its global cloud Pulse survey via a webcast on November 15th. The cloud Pulse survey is modeled after the sourcing advisory Pulse family of research studies. Results are based on surveys and interviews with advisors globally in KPMG member firms’ Management [...]
Organizations need to understand the maturity of their service delivery capabilities so they can measure progress in improving them over time and understand how far and fast to push these improvement efforts. In addition to measuring the own internal performance and improvement levels, they ideally need to also compare themselves to their peers.
Dave Brown, Principal, Shared Services and Outsourcing Advisory, KPMG LLP ( US) Information technology outsourcing (ITO) continues to push the capabilities of service delivery to buyers using more efficient and seamless interfaces. Cloud computing services begin to take the next step by attempting to hide the entire infrastructure and allowing you to simply pay for [...]
Stan Lepeak, Director, Global Research, Shared Services and Outsourcing Advisory Cloud computing was one of the focus areas in KPMG’s 2Q11 Sourcing Advisory Pulse survey. While the potential benefits of cloud computing have been loudly touted by both pundits and providers there has been less focus on the practical enthusiasm of the average buyer organization [...]
Stan Lepeak, Director, Global Research, Shared Services and Outsourcing Advisory In the KPMG 2Q11 Sourcing Advisory Global Pulse survey, we polled the firms’ sourcing advisors as well as leading third-party business and IT service providers to assess the skills of typical end-user organizations around various cloud computing capabilities such as understanding the technical underpinnings of [...]
