InformationWeek Analytics has announced the release of its research report 'Cloud ROI: Calculating Costs, Benefits, Returns.' The report includes an exclusive analysis of the approach respondents' organisations use to quantify risks (such as project failure or budget overruns) as cash flow in an ROI analysis. The report author, Jonathan Feldman, is the director of IT for the City of Asheville, NC, and a longtime InformationWeek and Network Computing contributor.
Nearly 400 business technology professionals weighed in on how they weigh costs of outsourcing vs. on-premises delivery of IT services. The report notes that IT is more confident that business units will consult them on cloud decisions than what data suggests they should be. About 34 percent of organisations report using SaaS now vs. 29 percent saying they are not using any cloud computing. The No. 1 cloud dissenter is the CIO, cited by 32 percent. Business units are over three times as likely as IT (21 percent vs. 6 percent) to say that IT doesn't get involved in cloud initiatives, says the report.
InformationWeek Analytics is a subscription-based service, offering peer-based technology research. Its site currently houses more than 900 reports and briefs, and includes a dedicated area where technology professionals can access complete issues of InformationWeek Magazine. More than one hundred new reports are slated for release in 2010.
Full access to the research data is available online at http://analytics.informationweek.com/abstract/5/3155/Cloud-Computing/research-cloud-roi.html
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