Large companies rely heavily on the cloud to reduce costs

The cloud market for several years seen as an Eldorado for publishers and providers of IT services. Including SAP, which was launched in 2007 with its cloud ERP offering Business ByDesign, without being able to convert the try. Nothing is lost, however, because the editor relies on the penetration of its cloud offerings from operations of external acquisitions (SuccessFactors, Ariba ...) to increase the share of its revenues from the cloud. But not only.

According to a study by HCL Technologies on behalf of SAP, 46% of large companies plan to migrate their on-premise SAP solutions in the cloud (public, private ...) by 2016. Therefore a godsend for SAP and allow it to explode from its revenues from the cloud, HCL Technologies evaluating further to $ 39 billion the business of on-premise solutions that could slide to the cloud in the next two years.

According to this study, the transition to cloud is motivated mostly by reducing costs, but also gains in terms of agility and speed (60%), access to new technologies (46%) and customer satisfaction (42%). "The cloud is clearly now a reality for the majority of SAP users," said Mark Hirst HCL Technologies. However, the migration to SAP on-premise cloud environments would not be so simple, mainly due to barriers to the integration of data between public cloud and private cloud for security reasons.