By now, everyone’s heard several stories about companies that experienced miraculous turnarounds after migrating to the cloud. There’s the global pharma company that cut its clinical trial simulations from 60 hours to just over 60 minutes. There’s the Australian bank that’s now able to deploy new apps in minutes instead of months. And then there’s Carlsberg, which now tracks its IoT-enabled beer kegs to see which clubs and pubs are running low and which need more of a marketing push. As Carlsberg’s CIO put it, “In this day and age, companies are built in months, not years. It was critical that we moved quickly so we could start adding value fast.”
Those success stories might leave you with at least a tinge of bewilderment and envy. Chances are, your enterprise has already invested significantly in the cloud. (A recent study by Accenture suggests that 90% of global companies have adopted cloud in some form.) But you’re likely still a long way off from seeing any results worthy of a case study.
If that’s your situation, take heart. You’re not alone. According to that same Accenture study, nearly two-thirds of cloud adopters haven’t achieved the results they expected when they moved to the cloud. They’re still not getting all the benefits we hear about constantly: the agility, the scalability, the cost savings, the increased speed to market.
So what’s going wrong? You’ll find some powerful answers in the new ExitCertified whitepaper, “Accelerate Your Enterprise Cloud Journey.” The paper does a deep dive on the factors that separate the astonishing promise of the cloud from the reality that’s causing so much frustration.