Leveraging the Cloud

European companies must leverage the economic potential of the cloud to transform their businesses or be left behind:

• Cloud solutions remove space, time and resource constraints on business opportunities
  • Bring Your Own Device Anywhere Any time
  • Omnipresence allows 24/7 real-time overview, reporting and steering
  • Pay-as-you-go frees capital and resources for new initiatives
• IT becomes a service management and procurement function
  • Everything becomes a service and needs managing accordingly
  • IT supports a service architecture and delivery, not technology
  • Key competences are architecture, procurement and contract management
  • Speed of portfolio restructuring is key to success
• Vendors’ business changes totally
  • Everything in the cloud is a service, so vendors are service providers, not product suppliers
  • Pure multi-tenancy enables almost infinite leverage
  • Life springs from subscription growth and retention and dies from churn or cash shortage